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Looked at some of his stuff, he puts out good info. One thing you ALL need to remember, the electricity itself is dangerous ! You can easily start fires by the electrical current if you short something out. Also, if you are running panels in series like I am, you get caught up on 150 VDC, you...

That battery looks like something out of an alarm system or something. Id not trust it for what you need, and that small of a capacity, it's not really good for much. Running an emergency light or something. Another thing I have seen, those very small batteries like that. tend to not last...

you could absolutely do that. id go with water as heat dissipation thru the sand might not be super efficient. Do know that using a heating element is terribly inefficient though. But on that note, they DO make 12 volt / 24 volt heating elements so you could in theory if you matched them...

you are better off with the 4 batteries over a dozen in series. Anytime you are stringing batteries together, especially in your case where you are going to be doing series / parallel strings, you are going to have a whole other world of issues to deal with. Flooded cell batteries? First off...

Basically you are wanting to use electricity for your heating needs it sounds like. You are going to need a fairly large battery system too, because it tends to get cold at night, when the sun ain't shining to make the power we need. The very first thing Id need to know is, how big are the...

why 2v batteries? now you have to spend all the extra money for balancing systems for them? why not a few 12v or a few 24 with self riding BMS built in? Aaron

Enphase really is just looking at what you made, it does not consider really where it went, it grid or use, just what you made Aaron

You can get them at some box stores / e bay / amazon etc. Kill A Watt is one brand name. I use a panel type that you manually wire because it has more resolution but for you this should work nicely: Edit maybe not, i hate those stores, incompetent morons ignorant ...working there. anyways...

Another thing with micro hydro, you need head. If you are not getting a good head on it you won't make much power. A river that run 700 feet and drops half a foot of elevation is kind of worthless, the money you'd spend trying to get power out of that half foot, unless you live on mars and...

Microhydro, IF you have continuous running water. otherwise it's a total waste of time, and it also needs a LOT of maintenance. That running water carries a lot of trash with it too, that you'll need to filter out, and clean those filters etc. It will need lubrication occasionally etc...

wind power is a whole different beast. there are VERY FEW places in the states where it's worth the effort to do it unless you want to just play around. yes it can absolutely work in tandem with solar. Texas has a lot of prime real estate that does just that ! But wind . it needs to really be...

I will get with you later on payback but think of this: How much is it worth to NOT have to throw 600 dollars of meat away because the freezer is out for a week? how much is it worth to have baby formula because your fridge is working? how much is it worth to have HOT coffee to waft into the...

given your unique situation, I honestly can't say, oh this or that will do the trick !! id need to honestly do a study of your area, see the temps, the solar it's called insolation, how much sun you are getting etc. heat via heating elements uses a ton of juice and can get expensive to run. I...

Well. One could do a small tutorial but it IS electricity. If you don't know what you are doing you can kill your self, or burn something down. Even a small 12 volt battery can burn the barn down. another problem with solar. Depending on where you are in the circuit, .. that sob is HOT until...

Well. If you have an inverter that will do grid feedback, then yes it can. I actually have something similar on my truck. I have panels on my truck that charge batteries I have in the truck. It also has a 3.6 KW, I think it is, inverter. the batteries power the inverter that gives me AC to...

LED's by nature are DC. If you can get them and run them DC that saves you the trouble of converting to AC to then re convert to DC to run the LED. If you can go direct DC, and take the power right off the battery, panel, etc, that's the best way. Aaron

Be VERY wary of unsolicited mail companies. Most are shady. Most every installation HAS to keep you hooked to the grid unless YOU specifically tell them to design it otherwise. Many municipalities won't let you disconnect so you don't have a choice. You may have to stay hooked to it, but...

Sally. that is a great question . EVERYTHING is doable with enough collection and storage areas. Also, how much power do you need? If you are running a fridge, a fan, and a small light in a cabin, and heating water / house etc with wood / gas / etc, then yes it might work. But if you are...

In Your case, Id do micro inverters. You convert the DC into AC right at the panel, and then send AC back to the house / barn etc. 500 feet is a fairly long way, but 10 Amp of 240 volt AC you could probably get away with 12 or 10 gauge wire. as an example, where DC you'd need probably 2 gauge...

might be better off with a microphone, if it's screeching and screaming, it's probably the cat :D