Subj : Power Issues
To   : Digital Man
From : Tim Post
Date : Wed Oct 29 2003 11:52 pm

  Re: Power Issues
  By: Digital Man to Tim Post on Mon Sep 29 2003 02:17 pm

 >   Re: Power Issues
 >   By: Tim Post to All on Sun Sep 28 2003 10:26 pm
 > 
 >  > After Isabell ripped through here I found myself without power for almost
 >  > week. I came up with a very cheap solution -
 >  >
 >  > 2 Solar battery chargers (6 amps each, about 30 bucks)
 >  > 2 Deep cell / cycle marine batteries (kind of expensive, 70 bucks each)
 >  > 2 1500 watt inverters (60 bucks each)
 >  >
 >  > Obviously the solar cells charge the batteries that run the inverters. I 
 >  > put in a deep cycle charger controlled by a simple contactor to kick in w
 >  > sun goes out.
 >  >
 >  > This pays for itself within a year via energy savings. I will e-mail deta
 >  > whoever may be interested (including schematics)
 > 
 > I'm interested. I'm sure if you post on DOVE-Net, you'll get interested syso
 > wanted more details too!
 > 
 >                                                   digital man
 > 
 > Snapple "Real Fact" #16:
 > The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

Better late than never :) I'll PDF it and post it on dove's pro audio. That
little (well.. not so little lol) contraption also took most of the noise out
of my recording pc. 

Rob last time I was in your neck of the woods... maybe a year ago.. solar was
really beginning to catch on. I'd like to make this thing monitored via usb.. I
could easily put in the host interface, but have *no* idea how to go about
writing an xp/nt driver to read it. It would be neat to be able to control
whatever is attached via web interface :)


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