For a seemingly simple setup, the wind turbine certainly involves a lot more that I ever thought it would. A lot of folk with ‘big’ turbines certainly view the small, chinese made end of the market as very suspect, but my view has always been that at least...
The panels have been relocated to a nearby south facing roof. The harsh realities of living off-grid in a country where sunlight is often infrequently seen began to make themselves apparent over the last couple of weeks. The solar panels on top of the truck became...
The ever helpful Philip from Leisure Batteries Ireland has kindly lent us a Victron 750W Inverter, so that we can get a comparison with his new budget range of inverters that are coming soon.Our cheap and cheerful modified square wave 500W inverter works pretty well,...
This wind mullarkey is definitely harder than the solar. With solar you just fit it, point it in the right direction, and screw it down so it doesn’t blow away. Wind power is a whole different kettle of fish. The turbine comes with 3 lumps of angle steel to use...
In my search for a well made charge controller that would allow me to configure it properly, I came across Karasouli – www.karasouli.com It’s easily configurable, and also does proper data logging, for voltage and wind turbine performance, and its made in...
