Solar Power
not understand anemometer
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>still do not understand > The rotor spins. AC is just DC in motion. > John
Coils create magnetic fields and attract the magnets. If you apply DC to a coil, the motor moves to some position and then stops; you noted this yourself. To get the motor to spin, you have [...]
Hybrid battery car runs 516 Kms
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Malaysia eVictory (MeVictory), a prototype car outfitted with both Nickel-Zinc batteries and Metal-Air fuel cells. It has the record of travelling over 516 km in its test run, shattering the earlier record of a hybrid vehicle that ran for about 314 kms. The event is proof that combining a high-power [...]
Staber Washers
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I’ve heard of problems with Staber washers so I thought I’d check in here for feedback. My friend is selling off all the stuff in his solar powered house and wants to sell the Staber really cheap or give it to me. Has anyone had positive experience with Staber? Q
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AMERICAN PATROL – NO SHOPPING DAY JAN. 12TH
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PASS THE LOGO AROUND. GET IT AT www.americanpatrol.com Mark your calendar and please support this effort! Please forward this message to as many gravely concerned law-abiding Americans as possible. Also, print it out and share it with those who do not have comuters. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted [...]
Questions about a solar powered "mini house" (Nick?) – floorplan.png (0/1)
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I’ve been toying about with this idea for some time and am about ready to start construction of my "mini dream home." I live in the northern part of Mississippi and am wanting to put a cabin down by the pond. Plan is to build a structure that can be towed and [...]
valve regulated batteries
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I have a 12volt set of Lucent Technology valve regulated batteries, the manual states that they are only to be float charged at 13.5 volts. This does not seem to be high enough to get the best capacity from this type of battery. Has anyone charged these at a higher level [...]
New Market for Solar?
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> > http://www.voxnyc.com/archives/00000036.htm > "With friends like these, who needs enemies?" > Can’t think of a better way to bury solar than having someone foaming at > the mouth pushing it that hard.
Good point. I’ve been targeting typical families for the past 20 years with moderate success. But I [...]
Floatron for Pool
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Does anyone have experience with Floatron? It is a solar powered ionizer that is supposed to allow you to reduce the amount of chemicals used in your pool. It puts out copper ( and silver? ) ions that are supposed to kill algae. Some chlorine is still needed for oxidation and [...]
ATV Theft Protection
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… >OK, forget about case hardened, i dont know what they call it, but there >is some hard steel thats almost impossible it cut with bolt cutters… …
http://www.lockitt.com/cobralin.htm And lots of folks remove a wheel or two off ATVs to prevent rolling the puppy away. Tom [...]
Solar power air conditioning
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Hello guys: For quite some time I have been thinkering on a a machine to cool my house using no electricity. So far, I have figured out a way to do it using old technology from the 60’s during the day and ways to keep it working during the night. I [...]