Hi, This happened about 7 years ago... I got a good quality regulator from Altronics or Jaycar. I got 3 large Japanese (Mitsubishi?) solar panels from some mob on the Hume Highway, a couple hundred metres north of the Ring Road Freeway, on the Eastern side of the Hume. I got an excellent 240v/12v fridge/freezer. (Does not burn any fuel.) Japanese made, but German sounding name. Only 1 (!) moving part, the piston, that's in addition to the lid - of course. Engel MT60FCS. Bought 5 Fisher & Paykel SmartDrive washing machines and removed the motors and sawed out the shafts & bearings from the actual bowls. Seen them hooked up to wind mills, water wheels, hand cranks, exercise cycles, and lawn mower engines. Got lots of word documents, PDF files, etc. about the above... from websites that may well have shut down in the mean time. Maybe email them to you, and save you a few days of researching the hard way. Better yet, if you're not in a rush, pass them over on a USB stick when we meet at a LUV gathering. Don't forget to include a "sink" for the current to dissipate itself, when the batteries are all charged up. They say a heating coil in a bucket of sand, but I figure in a hot water tank would be more practical. Cheers, Carl Turney Mobile 0427 024 735 Belgrave On 28/05/12 10:59, dan062 wrote:
Hello
I am considering installing solar panels at home.
Anyone is willing to share experience, good and bad, and any recommendation please?
I will probably be installing a small system which will most likely meet most of my needs.
Cheers Daniel. _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk@lists.luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk