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How hard can it be go 'GREEN' ::: How to turn a Solar Panel into a regular outlet for small appliances?
I have a CL-600 Coleman solar panel (600mA @ 15V, 9W)
I got it so I could charge my camera batteries and maybe run a blender.
The panel came with a Male Cigarette lighter adapter and Battery Clamps (basically to charge a car battery)
Here's the catch -- I'm not going to have a car. How can I turn my Solar Panel into *POWER*.
I have a CyberPower - 150W DC-to-AC Adapter - If that helps.
Would a female' to female' adapter work so i could connect them all together? Is there such a thing as a female' to female' adapter?
Thanks in advance for any help.
If you have other suggestions, I'm all ears.
I'm trying to recharge my camera batteries at night. If you there is another portable power source - I'm all ears.
You can probably get a splitter with 2 female ends and just wrap some electrical tape over the male end to prevent a short by the exposed contacts touching metal, or just cut off the male end, strip the wires and put on connectors to the battery, otherwise the power would need to feed back through the panel wiring to power the inverter and that may cause problems. Get the pigtail style to get the connection to the battery; some are very short so you wouldn't be able to get exposed wire to get to the battery. I have seen the splitter at Walmart and on e-bay, I am pretty sure radio shack would have them too. It looks like you already have the inverter, but 150 watts is not much power if you want to run the blender, I checked mine and it uses up to 375 watts. If you are just charging small batteries off of the big one the one you have should be fine.
I just saw a video doing just what you are trying: http://greenpowerscience.com/ You might find it helpful.
Thinking About Building A Solar Power System
More and more people today are now looking for alternative ways of supplying power that they need in order to run appliances and equipment in their home. For some people because of where they live setting up a solar powered system is the ideal choice. In this article, we go through a number of factors that need to be taken into consideration if you are thinking about building a solar power system.
One of the first things that you should be doing in order to see if building a solar powered system is a viable option is to find out how much sunlight you get each day where you live. To do this you need to check out weather data for the area where you live or use a solar energy map, which you can easily find online.
The next thing that you need to do when considering building your own solar powered energy system is to calculate how much power it is you actually use. The easiest way of doing his by looking at the bills, you receive for your electricity company and then dividing the figures up so that they provide you an average of what you would use on a weekly basis. To work out what your weekly power consumption for your home is you take the total monthly figure off of your electricity bill and then divide this by 4.3.
Along with knowing how much sunlight, you are likely to get and how much power it is you will need to be able carry on running all appliances and equipment in your home there are other factors, which need to be taken into consideration. You need to make a decision on the kind of inverters you will be using, how many solar panels you will need and how many batteries you will need to store the energy in.
When it comes to selecting the inverters for your system, which is what converts the sunlight that has been collected by the solar panels in to AC power rather than DC power. All inverters will be rated according to their continuous and surge wattage. So the more power you are likely to use then the much higher these wattage ratings will need to be.
As for the batteries, you need ones that will be able to take continuous charges of electricity into them. Therefore, car batteries are not suitable simply because they are not designed to be able to collect and store large amounts of power at any time. The kind of batteries that you should be selecting to use when it comes to building your own solar powered system is say a marine or golf cart battery.
Of course, when it comes to someone actually choosing to build a solar powered system they must not forget about the solar panels. It is important that you carry out plenty of research on this item in order to ensure that you have the right ones for yours. As you will soon discover when looking for these panels there are a number of different sized panels to choose from. So take your time and look for those that will help to collect sufficient amounts of sunlight for your own particular requirements.
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