Precautions to take before connecting Inverter to Battery When you are connecting any Inverter to the Battery (thru the fuse), you would have noticed sparking as shown below. You can also check out the same in the below video. https://youtu.be/_PgthByAYz4?t=630 This sparking happens because the capacitors in the Inverter try to get charged [...]
Till recently the policy in Karnataka for some of the consumers had been Gross metering(GM) and some had Net Metering(NM). A recent circular from BESCOM has given option for some of the consumer segments- residential, hospitals and institutional the option for opting between gross and net metering. So what are the two types of metering? And [...]
Time for us to leave to Western Ghats,Waynad. Two of us started to Mananthavaady to check the problem with few installations done by group of volunteers earlier amidst the mountains for the adivasi people. Lighting their houses in such a beautiful place. We are excited. Excitement never comes alone. We had some tension same time [...]
Why is energy storage necessary? It’s often suggested to install energy storage systems when we go for off grid type where there is no other source of energy supply other than renewable type to ensure uninterrupted power to the loads. Often its very useful to have energy storage systems powered by renewable sources because they [...]
 Many a times when a customer tries to go for a solar installation, he asks about panels and their types and their respective lifespans. Generally, panels are manufactured using polycrystalline cells. But every time a question arises regarding thin film solar cells which are light weight and cheap. Then why aren’t we using these [...]
Our batteries are expensive components of our off-grid solar installations. So it is a good idea to protect them from over-charging and deep discharge. To do this we use charge controllers. Charge controllers sense the voltage on the battery. If it is lower than a given threshold then they disconnect the battery from the load. [...]
Harsha sent me an urgent email this morning. He said, "It might be true that sun can give 5 units/m2/day. But because the efficiency of solar panels is only 15% and there are losses in the system, we only produce 0.30 to 0.6 units/m2/day. Â For example a battery based system will give you 3 units [...]
If you follow this link: http://www.amco.co.in/products.php?id=9 , you can see how a battery's weight increases with it's Ah rating. You need bigger batteries to store more electric charge. The capacity of a battery is related to the quantity of active materials and electrolytes in it as well as the surface area of the plates. Electric current is the flow [...]
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