scubasteve
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- Joined
- May 4, 2014
- Location
- Cambridge, Ontario
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME WITHOUT EXTENSIVE ELECTRICAL KNOWLEDGE I AM A FULL TIME GENERAL CONTRACTOR WITH A LICENSED ELECTRICIAN HELPING OUT
I was debating a backup power solar system but its not in the budget right now. i am instead going to hook a mix of a small diy wind turbine hooked to a small solar panel i am assembling and be able to run my entire seahorse tank. The array im assembling wont run the tank itself but since it only has a 1w led light system and a t-8 on fuge with a very small fountain pump we calculated the boost from the small wind turbine will be enough to charge the batteries and run the tank.
For anyone that follows along this will be a long venture as i am winding the coils for my pma generator myself and my solar array is a bunch of 5"x5" cells so i have a crap ton of super delicate soldering to do( guarentee burnt finger tips at least once during this.
I wont be going over all the fine details as most is boring math equations but just so you know most of the parts im using are salvaged from old projection tv's sound system amplifiers and a couple printers. Its amazing how much high voltage stuff you can get for free for home projects. Thanks to the tv i have free diodes strong enough for my pma generators bridge rectifier ssembly and those super powerful capacitors will be handy to even out the wave form for those that understand electronics
I was debating a backup power solar system but its not in the budget right now. i am instead going to hook a mix of a small diy wind turbine hooked to a small solar panel i am assembling and be able to run my entire seahorse tank. The array im assembling wont run the tank itself but since it only has a 1w led light system and a t-8 on fuge with a very small fountain pump we calculated the boost from the small wind turbine will be enough to charge the batteries and run the tank.
For anyone that follows along this will be a long venture as i am winding the coils for my pma generator myself and my solar array is a bunch of 5"x5" cells so i have a crap ton of super delicate soldering to do( guarentee burnt finger tips at least once during this.
I wont be going over all the fine details as most is boring math equations but just so you know most of the parts im using are salvaged from old projection tv's sound system amplifiers and a couple printers. Its amazing how much high voltage stuff you can get for free for home projects. Thanks to the tv i have free diodes strong enough for my pma generators bridge rectifier ssembly and those super powerful capacitors will be handy to even out the wave form for those that understand electronics
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