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Solar Homebrew first... | 8 comments (8 topical, editorial)

Re: Solar Homebrew first... (3.00 / 0) (#5)
by nothing to lose (nothingtolose175 at yahoo.com) on Sat Mar 19th, 2005 at 01:34:36 AM MST
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That's a really neat job. I like those.
I wanted to try building some but I spent my money on machine stuff instead of cells, so I geuss I will be waiting a bit longer still.

"The only problem with my inverter was that once some people came to my house to do some soldering and connected the machine to the inverter?! I was not home and... of course the inverter went up in smoke. Luckily I opened it and found the spare part, changed it and it now works fine."

Not sure I understand that? What did they connect, and what spare parts?
I have a Aims 5kw so I am pretty interested in this.

Great job on the pannels, very neat looking setup, and good luck on the wind mill.
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nothing to lose

Spelin and tpying are my strong points, not electronics.

Re: Solar Homebrew first... (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by commanda (alwynne at unwired dot com dot au) on Sat Mar 19th, 2005 at 02:09:47 AM MST
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I also am confused. My soldering iron is something I hold in my hand, and it consumes 48 watts. Less than most incandescant light bulbs.

I suspect something got lost in the translation, and you actually meant arc welding.

Amanda

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Re: Solar Homebrew first... (3.00 / 0) (#7)
by TomW on Sat Mar 19th, 2005 at 02:28:47 AM MST
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Amanda;

Yes, I wonder, too. I run my soldering station regularly on my cheap 1500 watt inverter. Being a simple, half amp or so resistive load it seems unlikely it would kill an inverter. However, I think welding with my 110 VAC wirefeed may have been a factor in killing my 2500 watt cheapie inverter a few months ago.

Cheers.

TomW

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."--Mark Twain
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Re: Solar Homebrew first... (3.00 / 0) (#8)
by sandovalch (sandovalch@yahoo.com) on Sat Mar 19th, 2005 at 06:56:57 PM MST
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Yes, sorry for not explaining it very well.
Someone came to my house to do some arc welding and they connected the welding machine to an outlet connected to my inverter.
Usually when I do Amps demanding jobs I switch back to utility energy, but I was not home so they blew up my inverter.
I opened it and found out a MOSFET was gone, I looked it up, bought the spare and installed it. It now works great again!
I do also a lot of soldering for my solar cells with my soldering iron and have had no problems with the 2.5kW inverter.

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