Solar Power 411

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The ability to install “hurricane ties to bicycle rims will allow you to build beautiful wind turbines. This video reveals the secret. It is the logical ending of the video entitled: “Bevel Siding Wind Turbine.”

Solar Power Lancaster 3101a Image by DB’s travels The hot whiteness of the receiver, to me, look ominous. (See adjacent photos)

Solar Powered Lighthouse Image by tim ellis The ultimate in Renewable Energy!

Bartoleme, Galapagos Islands

Hope this movie will sort of show how easy it was for me to wire this Taylor Dunn Electric Car (EV-electric vehicle), itself run by six 12 Volt each, true deep cycle batteries. They are connected by thick stranded wires about 10 inches long, which any golf cart dealership can custom make for you (cheaper), or you can order them online I suppose. Welding shops are great sources for heavy duty electrical cables. I hope I’ve explained how the solar PV (photovoltaic, dang it google spell check; the word, photovoltaic, is gonna triumph over the needlesly long, separated form goog wants, “photo-voltaic”) gets wired the same way, in SIERIES, as opposed to parallel. Sieries connections between batteries, or PV panels (“modules” they are called in the trade) go from positive to negative and negative to positive, yielding double the voltage output. For example, if all six, 6 volt batteries from a golf cart battery bank, were wired in parallel, hooking together positive to positive terminals six times, the out put would still only be 12 volts; sieries gets you a 36 volt output, or 6 volts X 6 batteries = 36 Volts. This Taylor Dunn warehouse type EV, is like almost all golf carts, 36 volt DC current run. the “Neighborhood Electric Vehicles too function, you just add more batteries and panels is all. Or if they get wierd, install a voltage regulator-controller. Once you own the car paid up, they can’t stop you from altering the thing any way you want. Banks don’t control the laws of … Video Rating: 5 / 5

Wind Power off the coast of Holland Image by Xenoc