Wiring Your DIY Solar Panel To Charge Controller
Installing your own homemade solar power system involves multiple steps. Previously, I wrote about how to install the DIY solar panel up on the roof. When the panel is up, the next step is to wire it up to the charge controller. Here’s the simple instruction for the process.
What you need to do is slip in the BX cable from the solar panel to the charge controller. It is a good idea to insulate the tip so you don’t create a spark on the device.
Feed the wire through a strainer lead and tighten it up. This is to prevent the BX cable from being accidentally yanked off the charge controller.
With the Direct Current (DC) coming from the solar panel, you should use some kind of fusing system. Just in case something goes wrong, the fuse will burn off rather than your solar component.
For the fusing mechanism, you can use a standard car fuse rated 40 amps at 32 volts. What you really need is about 15 amp and the car fuse is more than enough to give your system some measure of protection.
Now, attach the fuse to the positive wire on the BX cable and the protection system is done.
If you are building a large residential solar power system, the fuse protection mechanism will have to be done in a separate box. For a small DIY system, a simple connection on the live wire should be fine.
Next, use a small jumper wire on the fuse mechanism to connect it to the charge controller. Look at the charge controller circuitry and locate the positive terminal. That is where the wire should be attached to.
Next to the positive terminal should be the negative terminal. Connect the negative wire from the BX cable to this terminal.
Finally, connect the ground terminal to the ground wire from the BX cable. Usually, the ground wire is green in color.
When you’ve finished connecting the cable from the solar panel to the charge controller, the next step is to do the battery connection.
DIY Home Solar System Guide
Are you planning to make your own home solar power system? If you are, check out Michael Harvey’s Earth 4 Energy e-book.
The manual comes with step by step instruction showing you how to make a solar panel with minimal cost. Check out the Earth 4 Energy review post on this blog for more information.
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Ambigrid Review – Reviewing The Ambigrid E-book
Here’s another home renewable energy guide that I wanted to do a review on. It’s an e-book called Ambigrid. You can see its main web site at www.ambigrid.com.
First Impression
When I first landed on its web site, the thing that caught my attention is its big bold red headline. Ambigrid is revealing the “secret” for generating free electricity.
It’s not really a secret though. We can easily create free energy either by using solar power or wind generator at home. The challenge is to build a working model with minimum cost.
Inexpensive Renewable Energy System
One thing that I do agree, you do not have to spend thousands of dollar to have your own residential renewable energy system. You can build the system on your own via Do It Yourself (DIY) approach.
However, there is a catch. It involves a lot of tedious work and time investment. Nonetheless, it can be done with the proper step-by-step guide.
In the Ambigrid e-book, it offers 4 residential green power systems.
The solar panel and wind generator are power production system while the solar water and air heaters are mainly to reduce your existing home energy bill.
During winter time, close to 50 percent of our home power bill is spent on heating the internal area of our house. By using the solar air and water heater, it is a practical way to bring down our home energy consumption.
Product Guarantee and Cost
What if the suggestion in Ambigrid does not work? Well, there’s a 60 days money back guarantee on the manual.
That’s one of the benefits of buying information product on the internet. If you don’t like it, you can return it for a full refund within 60 days from your purchase date.
So how much does Ambigrid costs?
The regular price is listed as $197, but the actual price is $49.00. The cost of the manual is relatively similar to other renewable energy kits on the web.
Ambigrid Review Conclusion
If you are tired of paying ridiculously high electricity rates to the power utility companies, it’s time for you to look for alternative energy sources to supplement your home energy needs.
The best solution right now is green energy in the form of solar or wind power.
Engaging a professional contractor to setup the system can be expensive. You’ll need at least $30,000 capital investment to get started.
A cheaper alternative is to build the renewable energy system on your own. If you are a DIYer, the Ambigrid e-book will give you a good step-by-step instruction to build a solar panel, wind generator, solar water and solar air heater.
All you have to do is read the blueprint and spend some time working in your garage.
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Related web pages:
1) Homemade Energy Review – Is Homemade Energy E-book a Scam?
2) Green DIY Energy Reviews – Reviewing The GreenDIYEnergy Manual
3) Energy 2 Green Review – Does Energy2Green Delivers?
GreenDIYenergy Manual Review – Solar & Wind Energy For Homes
Renewable Energy Information Product On The Internet
Couple of week ago, I did a write up on Green DIY Energy review. Today, I have been relooking into the Green DIY Energy manual from www.greendiyenergy.com again. There is some very interesting figures that I found. This renewable energy guide has been getting a lot of attention and it is selling like hot cakes on the internet.
I have a software call Affiliate Elite that can be programed to track all the information product from Clickbank. If you are new to the realm of web marketing, Clickbank is the largest portal on the internet that sells all variety of e-books. They are not the publisher of e-books, but more like an intermediate party between the actual author and the buyer.
In the offline world, Clickbank is like the Borders or Barnes and Nobles bookstores. Their key role is to handle online payment processing, complains and guarantees and also set a certain standards for the publishers to follow.
The Rise Of GreenDIYenergy Manual
Coming back to GreenDIYenergy manual, my Affiliate Elite software has been tracking its sales performance for the last 90 Days (April 2009 to end June 2009). The figures are pretty impressive.
As you can see from the chart above, Green DIY Energy guide has a steady increase based on their Product Gravity. Product Gravity is a complex formula used by Clickbank to calculate and to show the average product performance on a daily basis taking into factor multiple variables.
What does the graph shows? It is showing GreenDIYenergy having a very good sales performance trend for the last 90 days. As an analogy, the graph is like Amazon.com telling you how a book on their inventory is performing for the last 90 days. It gives an estimate figure of how many people are buying the book and how many people are returning it.
A Good Product To Invest In
If you are planning to buy a home renewable energy guide, Green DIY Energy manual is a very good bet. Not a lot of information product on the web has such a good performance record. One thing that I am certain, many people are buying the e-book and at the same time they are loving it because there is a very low return rate.
If you are wondering how to use solar or wind energy for your home to reduce your electricity consumption, be sure to check out Green DIY Energy manual.
