Solar Panel

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THE JEW (RaVeN)
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Re: Solar Panel

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Sunlight energy calculator for North America:

http://www.find-solar.org/?page=solar-calculator


Someone's experience with solar power in Pennsylvania:

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/one-year-wi ... tly-sunny/
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Re: Solar Panel

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Setup some energy monitoring. Using Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Just Temporary setup for now but it monitors Voltage and Current from Solar panels. Sends that data to http://emoncms.org/thumperup.

Next step is to also include Battery voltage monitoring.

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Very cool. How many watts is your setup generating on average? Have you implemented batteries or are you only using it during the day?
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