Pics, Movies, or links for personnal sites and blogs (no commercial)

**CaptTurbo** · February 26th, 2010, 18:06 PST

Originally Posted by zazooooo

I just started a website to document all of the upgrades I have made on my house to move towards off grid living. I have learned a lot along the way so you might as well learn from my mistakes. Some of the projects I have posted so far are my solar water heating system, solar air heater and high efficiency refrigerator modification. I like to do as much as possible myself so most things are pretty low tech but still very functional.

Darn, the link was removed. Sounded interesting.

EDIT: BB sent me the link and it was nothing but spam. Niel did the right thing by nuking it!

**niel** · February 26th, 2010, 18:14 PST

captturbo,
i addressed in his other post the reason for the deletion. if there weren't books he's trying to sell right next to the articles it would've been fine and i told him to replace the links when the business aspect is eliminated. you can certainly pm him for it, but i suspect his main intent was to sell and not inform. hope i'm wrong on that and he corrects this.

**taylen24** · April 21st, 2010, 15:57 PDT

Probably my favorite thread on this forum, good seeing so many pictures and real-life stories of solar. I'm mostly in the office working solar, so good to see things on the outside! Keep them coming (especially the personal blogs!)

**solar_dave** · April 27th, 2010, 10:14 PDT

just some quick pics of my install

**dwh** · April 28th, 2010, 17:35 PDT

Originally Posted by solar_dave

just some quick pics of my install

One of those SealTites is missing a strap.

Looks pretty good though.

**solar_dave** · April 28th, 2010, 21:29 PDT

Originally Posted by dwh

One of those SealTites is missing a strap.

Looks pretty good though.

So it is, good eye!

Oh I forgot the panels

**nsaspook** · April 29th, 2010, 8:57 PDT

Pics and links to my (work in progress) DIY solar 4 battery monitor hobby project.

1&2 inverter power cells 100Ah
3&4 controller power cells 12Ah

Data files, (early) drawings and notes:
http://mysite.ncnetwork.net/res02dad...rpic_files.zip

Controller P18F8722 code:
http://mysite.ncnetwork.net/res02dad...es/swm8722.zip

Build Slideshow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsaspoo...34371746/show/

(after controller reboot, not synced with real battery state yet)
Battery 1&2:
Voltage, run-time (hr:min), state of charge (%), Ah used

Charge monitor:
Battery under charge. Max time on charger if C40 didn't go to float mode (monitor LED).

Pv voltage, Battery voltage, charge amps

**t00ls** · June 29th, 2010, 20:30 PDT

niel... I'm gonna put a link to my website that I have to see if its ok.....if not delete the link and I'll just add pictures

the website is hosted here at my home and the server is run by the system that is on the link

http://southcentralkentuckysolar.com/photogallery.html

I have lots of updating to do to the website.....but don't have the time to do it

**Macaw** · July 17th, 2010, 20:33 PDT

Concrete. Rebar. Digging through fractured sandstone and North Alabama clay. Temporary guy lines. Bailing out the excavation, only five, 5-gallon pales per day. Finally the concrete is poured and time to move on. EIGHT yards for this 18.5 foot tall 10 inch schedule 40 pipe with a final height of 14.5 feet above ground. I'll post a few more pictures now that I am getting the hang of it.