Reply To: frugal portable solar power kits inventory thought process for community

  • gods-child

    Member
    February 2, 2023 at 9:37 pm

    <div>”Honestly after living with solar power for 15 years you have a lot of potential problems with VERY little reward possible in the real world. Your system starts off far to handicapped and only gets worse from there. I hate to be a naysayer but that’s all I see is a great big problem waiting to happen.”
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    this is why i have come here to gain the knowledge that is required thereof

    Lets start off with the fact you want to help. Well it’d be a dang shame for some of those you’re helping to have gasses, fires and in general unsafe conditions. So car batteries are OUT you NEED AGM type batteries at the very least. Next putting solar panels in windows is going to limit their potential by 70% or so I would think, probably more. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. You’d be a lot better off to provide one of these “solar” generator kits for each case.

    AGM batteries can be considered whereby costs allow

    as for putting solar-panels in windows “limit their potential by 70% or so i would think, probably more” have you tested this theory out…?? and can you say from genuine bona-fide experience…??

    i can assure you i have tested this out with a modern mono-crystaline 50w panel in a frosted bathroom south-facing window and compared my multi-meter readings with a freshly calibrated electritians test meter and we have found that although 50w is rated as per lab tests that on very sunny winter days the solar panel generates a whopping 67w and it cost just under £40

    as for solar generators see my reply to @Hippocrates_Garden as that explains about the cost comparisons