Archive for the ‘Renewable Energy System’ Category
Station Wagon Solar Roof and Solar Sub- Self Sufficient Sonic Splendor
Toyota has been advertising the “Solar Roof” option for the new 2010 Prius- it’s basically a solar module integrated into the roof panel that runs the cabin ventilation fan on hot and sunny days. Simple enough- but what they didn’t tell you is that you can have a solar roof on any car- obviously!
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In: Life and Times, Little Fixes, Renewable Energy System
Solar Power is GO
It was dissappointing to confirm that my Prosine inverter was toasted- so I hadn’t gotten around to working on the system for a while. Today I remembered that I have an old modified sine wave inverter in storage from the first and never functional version of the solar power system- I dug it out and [...]
In: Renewable Energy System
1/2 Ton of Batteries
… very nearly, that is.
First, I picked up a pair of L16s to wire into the little photovoltaic system I set up years ago- and never bought proper batteries for. I had an inverter on the system (prosine 1000), but it seems to have broken at some point- I don’t know when or how, and [...]
In: EV Miata, Renewable Energy System