Stuff for off-grid living

On this website you'll find information on all the stuff you need to live off-grid, or at least to reduce your utility bills and carbon footprint. Take this path and see how much you can do to make your bills and footprint smaller. The equipment described here will allow you to harness the solar and wind energy and to put it to use, to heat your home and domestic hot water and to produce electricity.

Archive for 'Electricity' Category

Solar systems

May 6th, 2010 by admin | 0

Solar system is the planetary system that consists of Earth, Sun and the other planets and cellestial objects. But it is also a common name for a system that produces usable energy from solar radiation. This may cause small confusion, but since you’re interested in off-grid living, you probably are looking for the latter, right? [...]

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Photovoltaic (PV) solar panels

May 3rd, 2010 by admin | 1

Solar photovoltaic panels are used to make electricity from solar radiation. It is one of very few ways of making electrical energy without using rotating parts, like in alternators. Those panels (also known as solar modules) are made from smaller parts, called solar cells. Most solar photovoltaic panels are made to work with 12V systems, [...]

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Solar lights

Apr 28th, 2010 by admin | 1

Solar lights are used mostly in off-grid cases, on small or large scale. The cheapest and smallest solar light consists of three elements: small solar panel, small LED diode, rechargeable battery, in most cases AAA size, with a bit of additional electronics. Such lights are used, for example, to light up your garden paths at [...]

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Wind generator

Apr 25th, 2010 by admin | 0

Wind generator is a device that uses wind energy to produce electrical power. In most cases it’s commonly referred to as wind turbine. There are of course some wind generators that are not wind turbines, for example so called windbelts, that have almost no practical use. Wind generators are used to produce energy on off-grid [...]

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Solar cells

Apr 21st, 2010 by admin | 1

All solar photovoltaic panels are made of smaller parts, called solar cells. Those solar cells can be purchased separately and soldered together to form a desired array. A photovoltaic panel will have desired voltage if proper number of cells is connected in series, and will be able to supply desired current if the right number [...]

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