Afternoon anyone who stops by.
Busy fitting some much needed power supply, the aim is to power a workshop for as little cost as possible, plus be able to fit an alarm independent from the power grid.
So this system I had tried to do last year, I had mistakenly bought a control regulator box that was not of high enough voltage.
The box above remedies that. (up to 75 volt, the other one was 12 volt)
I gave my single solar panel a good clean first.
It works, eureka moment. The battery I am using is a deep cycle one, it can go below 11 volts and still be charged back up, car batteries do not like doing that, they warp the internal plates at 10.9 volts or there about.
Added bonus, the people I bought this place off fitted a relic of a car stereo in this garage/workshop now. So no I am not going to replace it, I am simply going to wire it up and use it. :-)
Sorry about the picture quality, my new light took star of the show.
It is raining on and off, so at least I can see what I am doing in here now, and at very low cost, using recycled energy/light. Using recycled motorbike parts, the lights in there were from bike back brake light bulbs.
25 degrees it seems, and that is the metric of c not f.
So we have good current too.
I know j8 on here likes his solar power also.
I have joined your club, and have no excuses now not to work into the night.
The reason for this is twofold, me fitting this system, someone stole the power cord that was feeding this workshop, it was before I came here, and I did not want to give them the chance to do it again.
So now I have to fit the inverter and fit an alarm too.
So off I go after some food, have fun folks.
