| The design of a solar-powered car for taking part in the prestigious World Solar Challenge isn't just another assignment, quite the oppo...
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| The power supply system of zBot1 consists of two parts, the main accumulator and the auxiliary battery. The main power source was realised w...
| Small solar systems have a lot to offer where mains power is unavailable. Installing standalone systems is by no means difficult, using eith...
| In theory you could just connect a solar panel via a Schottky diode to several batteries connected in series. The internal resistance of a s...
| Dye-sensitized solar cells may well be on the verge of a great future – they might even fully supplant expensive silicon solar cells. It’s t...
| This circuit can be used to turn the pump on and off when a solar collector is used to heat a swimming pool, for example. This way the water...
| Solar powered lights are nowadays available at incredibly cheap prices, so we won't advise you to build these yourselves. But you may b...
| This circuit was designed to ‘baby-sit’ SLA (sealed lead-acid or ‘gel’) batteries using freely available solar power. SLA batteries suffer f...
| Complicated charge controllers and inverter circuits can be used to squeeze the last drop of energy out of a solar panel. Contrary to popula...
| During the summer months they appear again all over the place: those solar powered garden lights. During the day they store the captured sol...