How To Make A Solar Power Generator Using Parts from Local Stores

sleeplesserf.blogspot.com — Using parts easily available from your local stores, you can make a solar power generator. Great for power failures and life outside the power grid. Here are some step-by-step instructions with photos as well. Apr 2, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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davidrools Apr 3, 2007

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If you really want to make proper use of your solar panels, you'd probably want to hook them up to the grid (MUST BE DONE PROFESSIONALLY SO YOU DON'T F^*& THINGS UP FOR EVERYONE ELSE ON YOUR BLOCK). That way you can be selling power back to your utilities provider when your batteries don't need charging. Then you can just charge your batteries from any of your regular electrical outlets and use them when the power goes out, if that's what you want to do.

sprice82 Apr 3, 2007

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Better yet make this then connect it to a solar deathray. Instead of the power of 1 sun you get the power of 88 suns! Either that or it will melt the crap out of this POS project.

ejonason Apr 3, 2007

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@ minideezel Um ok do some research before saying something is not possible. With the right system it is possible to sell power back to the utilities. Thousands of people do it.

mrwonka Apr 3, 2007

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Wasn't it 1.21 Jigawatts?

amythewasp Apr 3, 2007

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Hi Dealcracker,Your local yellow pages are a good way to find what is available in your community. Also, google is a good way to find things too. If we all do our homework, we can make darn near anything!

solarpowered Apr 3, 2007

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Warning! You need a charge controller (~$100), else you'll cook your battery.Also, you need a *real* deep-cycle battery. If it says "Cold Cranking Amps" or "CCA rating" on a so-called deep-cycle battery, RUN AWAY. Ig you go below %80 charge on those, you've killed it.Get a real deep-cycle battery from a specialty battery shop. Anything intended for a golf cart is great. Trojan is a good brand.

jdonner Apr 4, 2007

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What a loser; posted the images on imageshack.

bigleagues Sep 23, 2007

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OK, it gets worse people . . . the real story here is that this blog may have been plagiarized . . . this website has this info as copyrighted in 1996: <a class="user" href="http://www.rain.org/~philfear/how2solar.html">http://www.rain.org/~philfear/how2solar.html</a>

bushj Oct 23, 2007