DIY Solar Panels

boulderheads,

where did you get a picture of my dog? i got an eli dog (maverick x nigerino) that looks identical (very uncommon). great looking dog you got there. (sorry to go off topic.)

Dr. glad you went off topic, that is a gorgeous looking dog you have, and they do look identical. Mine is an APBT, I have 2 American's and 1 American Staffordshire terrier. The one in my avatar is my youngest, just 1 year old. Anyway, thanks for sharing, I always love dogs pics!!!

Can you elaborate a little more on the breed? I was able to find a nigerino, just not maverick.. thanks for any info

Boulderheads said:

Can you elaborate a little more on the breed? I was able to find a nigerino, just not maverick.. thanks for any info

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Eli is a line you will find in most quality APBT bloodlines. Jeep was Eli. His momma, Honeybunch came from Bulleyson, which is Eli. Eli (not Clayton's Eli Jr.) was a top producer, and is in many of the top dogs bloodline. Maverick and Nigerino (Cate's Grand Champion Nigerino...I get goose bumps typin it) are descendants of Eli, as well. My dog is like the great grandson of Maverick through his father, and some rare descendant of Nigerino through his momma. Nigerino wasn't bred often, and his blood is rare.

What bloodline is your dog?

I have a mutt, descended from a great line of mutts..

Only the one in my avatar has papers, but he isn't registered under my name.(Still under the breeders name) Some homeowners insurance will not insure people with pitts, soo all my boys are registered as mutts with my town. I was never concerned with breeding any of my guys, so they are all snipped..no more passing on the gene pool from them

No seriously, my dog shows traits of terrier, lab, border collie, shepard, husky and more.. She's a true hunter, trespassing animals don't stand a chance.. During nice weather I only need to feed her about once a week.. When she can't hang out in the back all day she eats 5x as much food..

i made my own solar panel in my engineering class with a two seets of silica, a nuetral base between them, and different acidic structures in each of the silica, the uvb rays excite the upper layer cuasing them to try to get another missing electrode from the other sheet of silica, which is represented in electricity in the nutral... it was pretty messy, and there was a lot of acids and eyewear invloved... but all in all it worked pretty good... now try to find all the chemicals and go to college and there yah go.. TRUE DIY solar panels... they way the inventers of solar panel technology made it... but even with the best solar panles you still only recive like 33% of viable electricity from the sun.... a getto DIY windmill would be alot more cost effective, bassicly take an electric motor, and hook it up to a blade in the wind, the magnets spinning the the copper coil make electricity that needs to be stored before it canbe used.... technically you could run a whole op. off store energy from DIY windmills.

Great post Spastic! Thanks for sharing your experience with us. So you thinking that windmill hooked to a giant string of boat batteries would do the trick better than a solar setup. I understand your logic in thinking so. Sounds much simpler to acquire those materials rather than the experiment you performed. Have you read anything about connecting your own tabbed cells with a soldering iron and enclosing them in a rigid frame. That is kinda where I was thinking with the DIY solar. Any experience working with those?

i only ran one at a time but had a couple test modles, in theory if you where to run them in series which i think your talking about you would recreate how solar fields operate on a smaller scale. but solar panles them self arn't the most effective way to harness mother natures power, they are however the most marketable with there obvious advantage to an unsighly windmill, hydrostatic dam, or the powerplants run of natural gasses. Thats the general reason they are so commonly used, in my opinon. A windmill in the backyard could be considered art, you could made it out of copper for the blades or something, put it on a wodden miniwindmill frame and paint it the same color as your house, or just buy one and have a stelth power supply operation going on, fancy dancy..

Cool man, thats good stuff to know. Implementing all of those systems would really provide you with diverse array of energy sources. Wind and water for breezy cloudy days. Sun and water, wind, sun and water. Well you get the idea. Keep the good info flowing brah.

it would be interesting if you had a little brook in your backyard.. you could copy the old mill design some hydro electric... and then of course throw a windmill on top of the thing why not! and some solar panles for flare.. it would be a POWER HOUSE

Spasticsmoke said:

it would be interesting if you had a little brook in your backyard.. you could copy the old mill design some hydro electric... and then of course throw a windmill on top of the thing why not! and some solar panles for flare.. it would be a POWER HOUSE

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Now that is what I am talking about!!!

My friend growing up had exactly that on a system his dad designed/built.. Wasn't exactly old-mill like, or cheap!, but IIRC it gave them more than 5kW..
They also had solar water jacketing.. The sun (and stoves) heated a ton of water that was circulated around.. You could direct some to go through more intense heating coils on its way through the stoves (the coils for hotwater), then through an interior only route..
I should add that the house was built into a hill, with only the southern side exposed.. This guy's dad was pretty smart/eccentric.. His stuff ism't the most feasible for the masses, but it worked well for them..

BTW Where I grew up alot of ppl had no access to electricity (myself and them included), and winter was the dominant season..

I think we might see more people thinking before they build now. sounds like this guy was a head of his time. Or maybe he was just adapting to the environment, especially if you say this was common around your area. Starting from scratch is the way to do it. Retro fitting becomes very laborious and puts home owners at an inconvience unless the job can be completed in a matter of a day which it doesn't sound like it could. As far as building into the side of a hill and only exposing the southern end... well it sounds like this man knew that the earth is a damn good insulator and is very plentiful. Thanks for the info, good stuff!