1. Solar Electricity for Homes
How Solar Electricity for Homes Can Be a Benefit
By
Daylin Herbersen
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So my adventure with going green began with a guy’s weekend out and testing
out a few kits out in the woods. We needed a way to charge our phones and keep in
contact with regular life along with having a guy’s weekend out as well.
Unfortunately this is the type of world we live in now, where we always have to have
a Blackberry or iPhone on the ready. And as we all know the iPhone doesn’t have a
removable battery and only lasts two days at most, so for a three day trip we needed a
way to keep our mobile devices at the ready. This worked out well and I thought that
it would be nice to figure out a way to get solar electricity for homes.
On a whim I decided to do some research about this whole green technology
thing. I basically learned that in order to have a good understanding of how going
green works and how solar electricity for homes could be a viable solution for me, I
would have to do a bit of researching. One obvious aspect of going green would be
the solar power panels, now we can do wonders with just one panel, but the trick is
the ability to link up these panels in parallel or daisy chain them to get even more
power. Much like how adding more batteries would power a device that requires a
higher energy load, the more power panels you link up in parallel, the larger your
ability to generate power. This solar panel array then connects to a charge controller
which protects the next piece of equipment the battery. It would be nice to just get
power directly from the sun and run off that every day, but then what about power in
at night? This is where batteries come into play here as they would be charged and
store the power harvested by the sun. This is really the only way viable that solar
electricity for homes could exist, otherwise if we all went green, we would all be
scrambling to do all our activity in the day and then just sleep at night, no more late
night computer browsing.
Now one rule to keep in mind is that the output of the panels is usually more
than the charge that the batteries can hold, for instance if the battery is a standard
12volt then the panel is usually 20% more so usually a 15 volt solar panel. A battery
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just needs more power to charge it, then since the energy in the battery is stored as DC
current an inverter is needed to change that DC current to what we currently use in our
homes which would be AC current, this inverter would of course depend on the total
output you expect and the power potential of all the solar panels you decide to string
along together.
Learning about solar electricity for homes was not a difficult prospect, it was a
bit hard to find correct information where possible, usually these tidbits of
information would be scattered all over the internet. A good place that has all this
information under one roof would be
http://www.DiyHomeMadeSolarPanels.info
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Recommended Solar Power Kit Resources:
 Solar Knowledge Series
 Green DIY
 DIY Solar Water Heater
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