Solar rooftop and compost at home workshop Generating electricity for household needs is a welcome concept and an answer for today’s electricity shortages from the state grids. We are coming across stories of installing solar on the household roofs. One may be curious how at all these solar panels are installed and how [...]
With Ranga and myself already on site, waiting for team to come for next interesting project. In-fact it will one of the most challenging projects in our list. We are prepared to stay in an half built house, between the dense forest surrounded by the gigantic Banasura hill and other small hills covered by greens everywhere. [...]
The Central Power Research Institute is an autonomous society under the Ministry of Power, Govt. of India. In their Fan Testing Laboratory, ELECTRIC CEILING FANs are tested as per IS: 374 -1979 specification. This is published by the BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS which is The National Standards Body of India. Air Delivery Test at CPRI Here is [...]
The Government of India set up Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) (Website: http://www.bee-india.nic.in) on 1st March 2002 under the provisions of the Energy Conservation Act, 2001. The mission of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency is to assist in developing policies and strategies with a thrust on self-regulation and market principles, within the overall framework of [...]
We at EcoSoch are always proud to own a REVA for our company. We are not only using it for our personal transport but also use it to deliver our Energy efficient Fans, LED Lights, Composting Pots to many of our customers. It had not only attracted many ogles like no other vehicle we ever [...]
Once you decide to go for solar installation on your rooftop, you would need to decide the type of solar rooftop PV system that you want to install. It could be off-grid roof-top or an on-grid solar rooftop PV solar system. For more details on off-grid and on-grid, please refer http://ecosoch.com/power/ For a standalone off-grid solar [...]
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 [...]
The answer to this question depends on where you live and how much space you have. We know that 1 unit of electricity is 1 kWh. Let us assume that you need 600 units a month. This is 20 kWh per day.  Check your actual average usage using your electricity bill. The average solar in-sol-ation in [...]
71% of the earth is covered by water of which 6% is ice. Therefore absorption of solar energy and evapo-transpiration of water at the earth's surface are dominated by the oceans. These drive the earth's climate system. Heat is transferred frim the equator towards the poles by the atmosphere and the ocean. The atmosphere does [...]
We need Deep Cycle Batteries for Solar Panels. Deep cycle batteries can withstand a deep discharge. Your car starter battery may survive a 100 deep discharges, but a high spec Deep Cycle Battery can withstand about 1200 deep discharges. Solar Panels generate low currents and charge batteries slowly. 'Solar' batteries are optimised for high battery efficiency. [...]
