Saturday, May 28, 2016

Greening Gradually

"Greenie, greenie, greenie" Janet called with excitement written all over her! Janet a two year old bright girl full of energy clutched greenie, a stuffed toy close to her body.

In my ongoing sojourn into the "Green" world. I recently bought a solar panel with the rating marked on it as 80W with a rated current of 4.17A and Voltage of 17V. I initially bought it for lighting due to the persistent power cut in Nigeria.

Figure 1 80-Watts Monocrytalline Solar

It is presently serving more than for lighting, I use it to run my laptop, radio as well as recharge mobile phone batteries. Of recent I had to recharge my 210AH deep cycle battery with it when power-cut ran into several days!


Figure 2 The 210AH Battery under charge  


Figure 3 I use the set up with quite a number of small appliances including Dell N5040 15.6" laptop, 500W Drill e.t.c.









3 comments:

  1. Hi Jean, but can this power a 42inches LG TV, one decoder, one home theatre and 4 energy saving bulbs + charge like 6 phones.

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  2. Hi Jean, but can this power a 42inches LG TV, one decoder, one home theatre and 4 energy saving bulbs + charge like 6 phones.

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  3. Yes beejay the battery inverter are okay for this. However the 80W Solar panel here is not sufficient to charge the 200AH battery you will need 3 x 100W panels minimum that I will recommend.

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