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Off-the-Grid Electricity: Maintaining the Balance of Power

How sunny has it been lately? Thursday, just before the local Vernal Equinox, which falls today, I cut incoming power from the solar panels for a while! The most basic goal of our off-the-grid system is to charge the battery … Continue reading

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Solar “Extraction”

In winter, we spend a lot of time keeping the solar panels free of snow and ice. Sometimes, like recently, rapid snowfall makes it a fruitless task. By the time we sweep the bottom of the array, the top panels … Continue reading

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