I'm at the Open Science Retreat (#OSR26UK) this week, at the #CentreForAlternativeTechnology in #Machynlleth this week - surrounded by experimental #solar arrays (incl. some cool ones from "history") and it has reminded me about my account on solarcene.community (a #SolarPowered #mastodon instance) - time to dust that off and have a play!

https://solarcene.community/@da5nsy

Danny Garside (@[email protected])

4 Posts, 4 Following, 3 Followers · Main account at https://social.coop/@da5nsy Just trying this one out because a solar powered-mastodon server is such a cool idea.

SolarCene
eTown podcast: Shovels & Rope, Nic Clark and interview guest Jim Pugh

YouTube
Stand-alone solar and battery-powered level crossings deliver an Australian first for regional rail

Stand-alone solar and battery systems used to upgrade upgraded remote rail crossings from “passive” – with no lights, bells or boom gates – to active.

Renew Economy
eTown Podcast: Robyn Hitchcock and Taylor Ashton with interview guest Phil Weiser

YouTube
Interessante Überlegung:
Muss eine (private) Internetseite ganzjährig und rund um die Uhr erreichbar sein?

https://digitalcourage.social/@mro/116237893899904046

#LowTechMagazine #SolarPowered #Selfhosting
Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻 (@[email protected])

🌻 ⭐ How to Build a Low-tech Website? | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low-tech-website/ This is a #solar-powered #web​site, which means it sometimes goes offline Bonus: it's well worth while to out the #print preview. #sustainable #Design ¹ https://mro.name/b8ry682

digitalcourage.social

the installer came over to see where we can install the batteries. Australia's regulations mean there's requirements for minimum space away from other appliances/windows, so ultimately we decided to have it installed at the back end of the house.

Will cost me a bit extra because more cabling required but think it should be good.

#solarpowerplants #solarpowered #solarpower #solar

So come Friday, we'll have a site visit to scope out where it'll get installed.

#solarpowerplants #solarpowered #solarpower #solar

Started doing some research, went to solarchoice/solarquotes and got couple of quotes out. So finally signed a proposal to get 42kWh of batteries w/ a 10 kW Hybrid Inverter - both from FoxESS

the exact models are KH10 inverter & EQ4800-L9 for the battery.

Is it massively over-provisioned - probably for our current usage. But with the rebates reducing come May and not a huge jump in prices figured now is a good time to get it done.

#solarpowerplants #solarpowered #solarpower #solar

Signed a proposal to add some solid chunk of batteries to my house. when I bought the place, it already had solar on, albeit in a weird funky way. I can see from satellite photos there are 36 panels, but there's only single 5kW Sungrow inverter. Thankfully, the inverter does support MPPT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_point_tracking)

this inverter meant that I could get max of 40kWh on a good day.

#solarpowerplants #solarpowered #solarpower #solar

Maximum power point tracking - Wikipedia