Energy for the New AgeAt least consider it!

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REPORT: The European sun is at its strongest in the Portuguese town of Amareleja, where a huge solar panel system supplies 30000 households with electricity. The country aims to produce 60% of renewable energy by 2020.

Pictures followed by video tour. (tour starts at 1.04) This is a follow up to my original solar shed video. We have now fitted an 80w panel facing 51degrees and towards south, this should give us optimal power from it. It’s joined in parallel with the original 20w panel. We should now have 60-80w / Hour worth of power generation on good days. There is about a 20%/20w loss due to the charge controller we are using, but in future will be upgrading to a MPPT controller with a 2000w inverter. Please rate and comment, any questions and I’ll try to help.

Here is a short update about our system here in North Dakota, We have added two 190 watt Evergreen solar panels this summer, changed out 8 new marine trolling batteries 125AH from walmart $80 “ten total”. cleaned up some wiring in conduit and customizes some meter boxes along with some changes on our sub panel wiring. Currently in the winter we run 80% of the lights and that’s all we dropped 2 bedrooms and the living room since we have reduced power input. Other than that we have been going really outstandingly good in the summer and so so in the winter here just holding our own. Summer of 09 as soon as we get income tax back we are going to buy 2 210watt evergreen panels and have been looking into a really cool 12 – 28vdc grid tie inverter we want to buy one and play with that also. www.buyerisland.net

Battery maintenance and care; Myths about putting batteries onto cement; Tpes of batteries and tips on long life for solar and wind power battery bank.