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One of the first steps in justifying the cost of a new solar system is to perform an electricity audit to determine your average household electricity consumption. This article shows you a couple easy ways to go about performing your own home energy survey.

Once you’ve completed an electricity audit, you’ll be able to put the numbers into an electricity consumption calculator and see just how much money each appliance costs you per month. This can be a real eye opener.

A friend of mine has an 8 year old boy. He’d really like to get his son exposed to solar power as early as possible and he asked my advice on how to answer the question “how do solar panels work for kids”. I offered to look through the selection of stuff at Amazon.com and recommend some stuff that I thought could help. He didn’t want to do this himself since, as he put it, “I can’t tell crap from gold”.

If you’re new to the whole ‘solar thing’ but are looking to get started, there are two important decisions that you need to make before investing in any solar technology. These choices will set the course of your solar life, so choose wisely.

There are two important equations that are used in every electrical project. A person can usually debug an electrical circuit using only these two equations, so long as they are good with logic or algebra. However, before we can discuss them, we need to cover two more definitions.

In previous posts, such as my solar powered pond pump pages, I’ve tried to pass on hands-on knowledge of how to build solar circuits. However, I rely on a common foundation of electrical concepts such as voltage, current, resistance, etc. I assume that my readers are familiar with these concepts, but this is not always a valid assumption. This post covers some basic electrical concepts that need to be understood by anyone wanting to work with electrical solar circuits. Each definition below includes links you can follow to get more information on that topic.

With ever increasing global warming, we cannot afford to burn fossil fuels to generate power forever. It not only depletes the reserves left on earth but also increases the amount of carbon emissions.

Amp-hour, Cold Cranking Amps, and Reserve Capacity are the most common battery rating that you’ll see. There is a plethora of other standardized ratings out there for special applications, but for solar applications, you’ll want to pay the most attention to the amp-hour and reserve capacity ratings. These will give you the best estimate as to how long you’ll be able to power a load with a battery.

This article covers some common mistakes people make when they are looking to buy a 12v solar panel. Installing solar powered products for improving your life is rarely a strait-forward craft. There are always tricky bugs that creep up and a sharp eye needs to always be kept on voltages and power ratings. Read this article to prevent yourself from succumbing to these common pitfalls:

Thanks to innovative engineers and new composite materials, prices on reliable wind turbines have in fact come down very rapidly over the last few years and are continuing to get less and less expensive. Someday soon, we will hopefully see the installation of wind power generators as a standard building practice.