For most people, doubling the electricity that can be generated from solar panels is a big deal.

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In this complete video course  you’ll learn where and how to get the lowest cost supplies, circuitry assembly (the easy way), DIY (homemade) or already made solar panel installation, and all of the wiring and other components assembly.

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A Simple DIY Solar Tracker – Hack a Day

The sun is a great source of energy, however, efficiently collecting this energy can be hard to do. One thing that can improve the results of solar use is to actually track the sun’s movement. [fanman1981] hooked up his own …

Publish Date: 06/17/2011 8:30

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Fearless Solar Tracker – Pole and Panel Installation | DIY GREEN …

In subsequent videos I will add the tracker electronics that I am designing myself. I just wanted to get the mount made and the panel working before the snow arrives. This tracker will add many sun hours to my system. …

Publish Date: 10/27/2011 16:57

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Introducing a powerful new way to keep your essential household appliances running when the power goes out. Power outages are a reality that can threaten your productivity and sense of comfort. The Power Source 1800 watt solar power generator is the perfect BACK-UP POWER SOLUTION for essential home appliances, emergency power electronics and full size office equipment during a power outage.

Power Source 1800 will supply up to twelve hours of uninterrupted backup power for a small office, and up to eight hours of run time for essential home appliances and small electronics during a power outage.

The Emergency Solar Powered Backup Kit is an electric generator which will provide up to 1800 watts of household electricity (3600 watts peak); enough to run almost any electronic product or appliance you might connect to your wall outlet at home. No diesel or regular gas is needed! It consists of a battery pack that stores electrical energy, state-of-the-art electronics that convert 12 volts from the battery pack to household power, an AC power panel that contains five standard outlets, and a DC power panel that is used to run 12 volt products. The Power Source 1800 is packaged in an almost “indestructible housing” and is easy to move around as needed.

Until now, backup power products on the market have only been able to provide limited backup power for outages, and not extended run time like the Power Source 1800. The unit switches to backup power automatically when a power outage occurs. This happens seamlessly so the home appliances and electronic devices that are hooked up to it won’t sense the power outage. They’ll run off the units charged battery for hours.

Backup Solar Generator Features

Home Backup Power: Will run a fridge, freezer, sump pump and 1000 W microwave, fish tank light and air pump, home alarm system, garage door and coffee maker.

Emergency Power: Will run essential electronics such as a 20 ” TV, radio, fan, mobile and cordless phone, and a 40 W emergency light.

Small/Home Office Backup Power: Will run a laptop, desktop and 20″ LCD or CRT monitor, 60 W office lamp, ink jet printer, 4-in-1 copier/printer/fax/scanner, internet modem, VoIP phone, mobile phone and cordless phone.

• Bright LED light turns on automatically when power outage occurs to provide illumination over the AC outlets.

• Digital LED display indicates battery capacity status and total wattage of the devices connected to the unit.

• Audible alarm signals 10 minutes before the unit runs out of battery power.

• Integrated handles for easy transportation.

• Overload and over-temperature protection to ensure longer PowerSource life.

• Sealed, non-spill-able 51 amp-hour AGM battery

FAQ

On average, how long does it take the solar panel to fully re-charge the unit?  That would be assuming the regular power source is out and you could not plug it in to your regular A/C outlet to re-charge it.

That really depends on the sun. For example, northern latitudes, in full sun during the winter, it will take about 3 to 5 hours to fully charge the system. Two hour recharge times in full sun have been reported in the Southwest. It can also be recharged from your home AC wall outlet.

Now, unlike a conventional gas power emergency generator, you don’t have potentially deadly exhaust emissions nor that constant noise from the engine.  Here in Florida, we frequently do experience power outages during storms and hurricanes. After the storm has past and the sun comes back out, I now have quiet pollution free back-up power until local service is restored.

The Power Source 1800 is safe to use it indoors because it does not emit any fumes since it is completely sealed. Place it into your kitchen or office, and plug in your appliances! Use it as a permanent source of power!

The 1800 watt solar power generator is very easy to install since no actual installation is really needed. No electrician is needed either. This is a stand-alone system that does not need to be connected to your household wiring whatsoever. Just fasten the solar panel to a flat surface outside, and then plug everything into the power plant. That’s it.

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SPECIFICATIONS

OUTPUT – Output power (maximum) : 1800 W (2900 VA)
Surge power (peak) : 3600 W
Output voltage (nominal) : 120 VAC
Output frequency : 60 Hz +/-1 Hz
Output wave form : Modified sine wave
Transfer switch : 15 A maximum/<80 milliseconds
Surge suppression : Yes
Inverter on : < 0.6 A (battery drain)
(no-load current draw)
Charging time : 15 hours from 120 VAC
12 VOLT DC – Internal battery type : Sealed lead acid, AGM
Internal battery capacity: 60 amp-hours
Internal battery voltage : 12 VDC (nominal)
Low battery alarm : 11.0 V (nominal)
Low battery shutdown : 10.5 V (nominal)
Internal charger
charging current: 5 A DC maximum
APPROVALS – UL, CSA, FCC B

DIMENSIONS – 8.5″w x 18.5″h x 10.5″d WT.- 65 lbs.

Includes 50 feet of Solar Panel cable.

90 day warranty, (a 2-Year Extended Warranty can be purchased.) 20 year warranty on Solar Panel.

by David Nelmes

You no longer need a flashlight to see what’s in your garden shed. New solar powered shed light recharges each day for ample light anytime, whether you are working late in the evening or in the shade.

Working in the yard during the spring and summer is often an enjoyable experience, even when the work is hard. We take pleasure in simply being outside of the home, enjoying the sunshine and fresh air.

Our yard sheds often play a big part of our day since this is where we store our lawn mowers, gardening equipment and gardening accessories. It’s so much easier to use the garden shed than to haul things in and out of the basement, but the downside has always been that there is no light in the shed and this can make it difficult to find what you are looking for.

I recently stumbled upon the perfect answer for providing light in my garden shed and it’s appropriately called Light My Shed. Unlike other remote lights, this one does not require expensive batteries, nor will you find the batteries dead if you forgot to turn it off the last time you used it. Light My Shed recharges itself each day to provide up to 2 hours of bright light.

How is this done? Light My Shed is a solar powered light that needs no external wiring and recharges itself constantly as each day dawns. It’s the perfect compliment to any outdoor shed. Now I can always find what I am looking for.

With a light in my shed, I feel comfortable working in my yard and garden until the sun starts going down because when evening arrives and it’s time to return everything to the shed, now I can easily put everything away with no difficulty at all… because I can finally see inside the shed when it’s getting dark.

After recommending Light My Shed to a friend, they came back and thanked me for sharing such a helpful idea. Then they told me they even installed one in their camper by the river. Now when they visit the camp every month, they have light at night inside the camper for a few extra hours instead of burning gas lamps or draining the batteries in their flashlights.

It’s great to save energy, but even greater when you find practical applications for items that save energy. For more ideas on practical applications of being energy efficient, please read my book, The Rewards of Making Energy Efficient Choices.

David Nelmes – David is an author and home energy inspector in Pennsylvania, specializing in the fields of Heating and Air Conditioning, Electrical Wiring and Interiors/Insulation.

David’s career highlights include authoring ‘The Rewards of Making Energy Efficient Choices‘, working in the electrical engineering division of three nuclear power plants and serving as an administrator, engineer and installer in the heating and air conditioning field.

He lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with his wonderful and supportive wife, Karlene and spends his time writing, performing home energy audits and developing web sites.

Website: Energy Efficient Choices

This energy saving attic sealing kit includes stair cover, reflective shield, and our R-50 ‘Ultimate’ insulation kit which maximizes the benefits by insulating your stair cover.

Price: $ 109.50 See Details and Select Size 22″ x 54″ or 25″ x 54″

This energy saving attic sealing kit includes stair cover, reflective shield, and our R-50 “Ultimate” insulation kit which maximizes the benefits by insulating your stair cover. This kit includes everything you need to quickly and easily seal and insulate your stairs. It is the best kit on the market to seal your attic stairs and maximize the benefits of our stair cover. It fits between trusses and can be used with most any pull down stairs.

Save Heating and Cooling $$$!

The encapsulated fiberglass insulation is 16″ thick. Takes just seconds to install – just insert the insulation into the reflective aluminum shield and then position the stair cover over it. So easy to do it takes only minutes – and NO TOOLS REQUIRED!

WHAT SIZE BATTIC© DOOR ATTIC STAIR COVER DO I NEED?

The Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover is now available in the 2 most popular folding attic stairway sizes. Both Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover models are 13-1/2″ deep to fit both wood and aluminum style folding attic stairways:

• Model 22×54 – fits folding attic stairways designed for 22″ x 54″ to 22-1/2″ x 54″ rough openings.
• Model 25×54 – fits folding attic stairways designed for 25″ x 54″ to 25-1/2″ x 54″ rough openings.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

The Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover works like a storm window for your folding attic stairway opening!

The gap around your attic stairway is like an open window. In the cold winter your heat flows right out and cold air flows right in; and in the summer your air-conditioning flows right out and the heat flows right in!

The Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover covers and seals the stairway opening, in effect sealing off this area and blocking the transfer of air and moisture. It also helps to prevent the entry of noise, attic dust, pollutants, insulation, insects, and rodents into the living area from the attic through the drop-down attic stairway door – all while still being easily removed for rapid access to the attic.

The Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover is installed over thick, soft weatherstripping that is attached to the attic stairway frame (not the structural framing of the building or the attic floor). The Battic© Door sinks into the weatherstripping and embeds itself into it, effectively limiting air leakage between the conditioned house and the unconditioned attic.

The Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover rests on thick weatherstripping applied to the attic stairway frame – not the structural framing of the house or the attic floor! The Battic© Door installs in minutes and no modifications to your attic floor are needed!

The Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover kit is quickly and easily installed in minutes with no tools required! Just quickly assemble the Battic© Door, install the weatherstripping on the top of the stairway frame, and place the Battic© Door over the stairway opening!

The Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover instantly creates a sealed, insulating dead-air space nearly 18″ deep between the Battic© Door insulating cover and the folding attic stairway door!

The Battic© Door R-50 insulation kit (the highest R-Value of any kit available!) installs in seconds and restores the insulation removed to install your folding attic stairs! Or add your own insulation to your desired levels!

The Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover can be covered with sheetrock (gypsum board). This can maintain the fire rating of your ceiling.

The Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover is 13-1/2″ deep to fit virtually any attic stairway without any modifications to the attic floor or existing structure!

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The Battic© Door Attic Stair Cover is a “Green” product made from recycled materials!

Home Weatherization Inspection Checklist for Homeowners, Tenants and Landlords

Home Weatherization Inspection Checklist is an easy to use weatherizing guide that teaches you how to perform home weatherization inspections and repairs… on your own home!

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Whether you are a homeowner, tenant, or an apartment landlord, performing a home weatherization inspection on your own can save you a lot of money and resources by:

• Saving on professional inspection fees
• Reducing costs on home improvement and repairs you can do on your own
• Saving energy due to the changes, repairs or improvements you perform

This simplified version of Weatherize America’s professional grade weatherization guidelines, has been designed specifically to place into the hands of homeowners, tenants and landlords who are in serious need of finding low cost methods to save energy in their homes and apartments. (Use Coupon Code: $AVE ENERGY! and Save 15%)

• Data collection forms help you find and focus on necessary repairs
• Learn how to perform the weatherization inspection on doors, windows, walls, etc.
• Choose between three levels of suggested repairs, based upon your budget
• Learn how to perform your own energy optimization inspection
• Learn how to perform the actual improvements and repairs for windows, doors, insulation, radiators, baseboard heaters, piping, garage doors, boilers, water heaters and more.
• Gain new insight on many energy optimization improvements with respect to lighting, thermostats, smart strips, refrigerator coils, fan and light timers, shower heads, toilet flappers, drier vent seals and more.

This 47 page manual provides detailed information on what to look for when performing your own home weatherization inspection and repairs and includes checklists to help you easily find and resolve most home weatherization issues.

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Builders Gone Wild » Winter Weatherization Tips

Winter Weatherization Tips. Posted By Carolyn on November 16, 2010. This gloomy weather reminds me I need to weatherize my home for winter. Here are some tips for you to help save $$ and keep your home safe from the winter weather …

Publish Date: 11/16/2010 17:22

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Some Winterization Tips « Near North Neighborhood Happenings

I thought that with the new snow on the ground and more to come, some winter weatherization tips were in order, but then I did some research and realized that you’re supposed to do a lot of these tasks during the fall. …

Publish Date: 11/22/2010 14:02

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Home Weatherization Tips

Disconnect all garden hoses from hose bibs / Cover hose bibs and foundation vents. Shut off the water to the outside pipes and drain them. The shut off for the outside pipes is usually near where the water enters the home or water …

Publish Date: 11/19/2010 12:38

http://aroundsherwood.com/2010/11/19/home-weatherization-tips/

With the ever increasing costs of living and global warming today, you now have  several ways to save on your electric bill.  You can stop throwing money out the window and start saving  some by being able to  generate our own electricity at home.

And when looking for the most  complete step-by-step video instructions  on how to generate power and reduce your electric bills,  Earth 4 Energy delivers  in every way.

Whether you want to simply reduce your power bills or completely eliminate them – the one stop solution has to be 
Earth4Energy.

What if there was a way you could  save  several $1000′s  for the utilization of solar or wind power  by building your own home made solar system for less than $200 and reduce your depend-antsy on fossil  fuels?

Well, there is a way. That’s right.  These professional  guides lay out everything you need to know about generating your own electricity  from using the free power of wind and solar energy. This is a  complete, step-by-step,  series of  fully illustrated manuals and easy to follow video instructions presented  in a way that will enable  you to easily create renewable energy for your home.

Sure, you could install the higher  priced solar and wind power systems.  But these solar panels for your home can cost you thousands of dollars. Now you can achieve the same results for substantially less just by following a comprehensive guide and  program that gives you all the information that is required to get the same results at a fraction of the cost.

After building and installing your alternate power supply, the solar energy costs and benefits you will start  seeing can add savings of  hundreds of dollars on your electric bill. You do not  have to build a 500 hundred foot high wind turbine to save lots of money on energy. With the Earth4Energy kit you can build a much smaller one and still achieve substantial  savings on your power bills.

The Earth4Energy kit is the best system for people who are looking to save money on their home energy bill and want to build a energy generator at home. There is no other kit out there on the market today like Earth4Energy that explains everything clearly with manuals  and videos.

The Earth4Energy kit is affordable and easy to follow so many people can now have access to alternative solar and wind energy.

So, just what are you getting with the The Earth4Energy kit? You will discover a proven popular alternative energy device that can  reduce your home energy costs by as much 50-80%. The kit also shares information on where to purchase free batteries required for your project. These batteries store the alternative energy making it a portable energy resource. You can take them anywhere, for any use!

Earth4Energy is simply the best and easiest to follow system for preparing an alternative home energy system.  So, if you are looking for ways to save money and stop paying high energy bills,  then this guide will definitely get you started in the right direction.

Act now and see how easy it is to make renewable energy for your  home with solar and wind energy and begin to reduce or  eliminate your power bill today.

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The Sunforce 50044 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit has everything you need to start generating power. It includes four (4) 15-Watt amorphous solar panels with durable mounting frames, a 200-Watt modified sine wave power inverter, a  Sunforce 7 Amp Charge Controller, and a wiring kit with accessories for easy installation.

With built-in blocking diode technology, this solar charging kit is designed to protect against battery discharge at night. You can also use this kit to maintain the charge on any 12-Volt battery for clean, silent operation of various electronics, such as deer feeders and landscaping pumps. The included charge controller features a built-in ultra-bright blue LED charging indicator, and is a great choice for automobiles, recreational vehicles, tractors, all-terrain vehicles, boats, electric fences, telemetry and more.

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Electric bills and fuel bills are rising steadily—but the cost of wind turbine energy is zero, and the cost of installing and hooking up a domestic wind turbine is steadily coming down as demand rises and more commercial success is realized by various companies producing the wind power turbines and researching wind power technologies to make them ever more efficient.

In addition, people are moving away from the traditional electric grids and the fossil fuels for personal reasons including desire for greater independence, the desire to live remotely or rurally without having to “go primitive”, political concerns such as fears of terrorist strikes on oil fields or power grids, or concerns about the environment. Again, this motivation to get away from the traditional energy sources is the same one that causes people to seek the power of the wind for their energy, giving more business opportunities to profit from wind turbine production and maintenance, which drives their costs down for the consumers.

In nearly thirty states at the time of this writing, homeowners who remain on the grid but who still choose to use wind generated power (or other alternative forms) are eligible for rebates or tax breaks from the state governments that end up paying for as much as 50% of their total “green” energy systems’ costs. In addition, there are 35 states at the time of this writing where these homeowners are allowed to sell their excess energy back to the power company under what are called “net metering laws”. The rates that they are being paid by the local power companies for this energy are standard retail rates—in other words, the homeowners are actually profiting from their own homemade wind powered energy production.

Some federal lawmakers are pushing to get the federal government to mandate these tax breaks and other wind power incentives in all 50 states. Japan and Germany already have national incentive programs in place. However, “A lot of this is handled regionally by state law. There wouldn’t really be a role for the federal government,” the Energy Department’s Craig Stevens says. And as might be imagined, there are power companies who feel that it’s unfair that they should have to pay retail rates to private individuals. “We should [only have to] pay you the wholesale rate for … your electricity,” according to Bruce Bowen, Pacific Gas & Electric’s director of regulatory policy. However, the companies seem to be more worried about losing short term profits than about the benefits, especially in the long run, of the increased use of wind turbines or wind farms. Head of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies of California V. John White points out, “It’s quality power that strengthens the grid.”

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This easy-to-use device tells you – in real time – the amount of electricity you’re using, as you use it…..

Black & Decker EM100B Energy Saver Series Power Monitor

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Eccotemp 40I - Natural Gas Indoor Tankless Water Heater

Which appliances qualify?
Energy Star-rated refrigerators, freezers, tankless gas water heaters, dishwashers, washing machines and room air conditioners.

You will also get a $75-per-appliance rebate for properly disposing of the appliances being replaced.

The Eccotemp 40I – Natural Gas Indoor Tankless Water Heater  installed  20 liter tankless water heater is rated for 6.3 GPM, making it the ideal choice for a typical 3 bedroom, two to two and a half bath home. The Ecotemp 40H is available in Natural Gas or Liquid Propane setups to work in any situation. The 40I can be installed where your current storage tank is located or plumbed in a new location….< more >