Elsewhere in the blog page is a post about battery safety. I have a couple of battery photos to illustrate what I was talking about the other day, easily making battery polarity easier to see. The old 24v battery strings have decent cables, grease to seal out corrosion, but they are a bit dirty and it […]
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John’s right, the quest for attractive and practical rooftop solar with these tiles was a flop. Some of it was design flaw and some of it was improper installation. I hope Mr. Elon Musk, who is marketing solar roofs, has investigated this matter lest his quest should fail as well. Stan-the-Hermit poses with 10 conventional
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It’s a beautiful, cool sunny day here in NW Florida and you’re right, John, you can knock a hole in a solar panel and it’ll still work. Just don’t try it with a hammer, because there is a tough plastic layer under that glass and another on the backside. You need to be forceful to
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Hi John, John, you live in a glass tower, but out in the neighborhoods you can hear the generators buzzing after a hurricane has taken out the lights. 200 watts for the fridge and 50 watts for a ceiling fan and they’ve got those darn 3500 watt generators blasting away at 3600rpm. Dumb. Well, maybe not
