Smart is for everyone Smart home is more and more becoming a phrase heard almost everywhere. It is sure to convenience us in some respects and if you are wary of letting it get too smart then just hold the reigns tight. There are varying degrees of smart, best thing is to stick at the …
Water heating is probably the most costly “appliance” we run in our homes, using the sun can reduce our electricity bill by a fair amount. Only one…There is only one solar system I can recommend, its affordable and it works. The geyser is made by a company in Paarl. The company is called Xstream and their geyser …
Since the 15th August in 2015 we have been running on a Hybrid solar system, solar by day and Grid by night. Oddly enough since the day we switched the solar on we have not had a single day’s load shedding. The system has worked fairly well, as soon as the sunlight comes in over …
Collecting the Sun The fundamental basic of anything solar is that we need to collect rays of sun and convert them into something useable. A Solar geyser is easy, its just a flat plate collector that uses suns heat rays to heat water in pipes.Producing electricity or more correctly electric current using sun rays is …
Batteries, no sunlight required.. Batteries are possibly the most costly part of the Solar solution, you need them, so you have no choice but to buy them.. What no one tells you about is the term “Duty Cycle”. Generally when you buy a printer it will say “duty cycle 10,000 pages” which generally means you …
The background to my project… In South Africa we have a new word, its a verb that most people are growing to hate with a passion… “Load Shedding“ This is as a result of dismal failure on the part of Eskom to maintain the power grid in the country, instead the management are raking in …