Solar Panels and Grid Tie Kits

Panels and Grid Tie Kits - S O L A R   P A N E L S

 These are available before or after Xmas 2012....... see below for text info.....

 night time is the right time for roof installations in the hot summer months

 laying the panels out on a roof......

 Extra panels for display and ease of view under and over

 Deck or Rail mount examples.........

 S O L A R..........P A N E L S >>>>>>>>>>> read on.........

As of 12/17/2012: The SandSpringsOK Solar Coop administrator, some of the members, and a team of experts from the Solar Power industry want local people to have opportunities to learn and spread th
e good news about solar panels. I am designing and offering starter packages.

I have 10 panels coming in soon. We thought they got ate by Sandy but the inventory shows they are on the dock and ready to ship out and will soon be on their way probably after December 12th, 2012. I expect them a few days before or after Xmas day. My sale price is $1/watt.  I plan to sell a kit with the panel and micro-inverter set up for Plug and Play Grid Tie experimentation or starter kits for $2/watt ($450) for the kit if picked up at gbreisch.com home/office site.

They will be 225 watt panels so that is $225 and if you want a nifty 120v +/- grid tie inverter to use with it plug and play, I have tested some and will plan on ordering some soon after this pallet of panels arrives for myself and others. I have a test panel set up to show you how to PlugInPlay it. I am guessing that the PlugInPlay inverters will be less than the cost of the panels depending on how many are ordered at once. I plan to order at least 10 after the panels are delivered and unpacked.

The first step is the purchase of a panel, not just a Mickey Mouse panel that you can get from the local farm store, a full sized modern and working solar panel. We occasionally order a pallet of panels for ourselves or buy them as a group to get lower prices on the panels. We plan to continue to do this and this is the first time I have built an ad to let you know that we are willing to sell one or more panels from the pallet loads that we get to provide that opportunity to own your own full sized solar panel.

With that panel or panels, you can go direct current (DC) to run pumps or fans for example or obtain an inverter for AC power to slow down or reverse your power meter with a grid-tie inverter. I have some examples at my little solar garden here and their are other members available to show you their systems locally. With a full sized Panel, you can learn and build from there for fun and education. The next shipment will have 225 watt panels which are described by a data sheet that you can access at this link:

http://www.solon.com/export/sites/default/solonse.com/_downloads/products/products_us/modules/SOLON-Blue/Datasheet/DB_Blue_US_en.pdf

I have also copied and pasted some of the information into a jpg for the pic you may be able to view with this post. Of course, if you want to be a part of our next group buy and want several panels, they will usually cost less however you can do what many do is to start learning and using your own panels one step at a time to build your confidence and knowledge as you have the resources to do so. The best way to learn is DIY approach (Do-It-Yourself) with help from the local Solar Coop and SolarSchool. More about those below in my comments to follow.

First come, first serve…….and now that everyone here knows, they probably won’t last long. Call me direct if you’re interested.

I may decide to sell more, however if you want one, I plan to offer it at $225 which is $1/watt. The same panel types five or so years ago where over $5/watt or more so now is the time to invest in the hardware and become aware of the power of the sun and how to use it to power your world one of the greenest ways possible.

I am selling these to others who want to learn with starter kits and/or add to their system for grid tie (run their power meter backwards) and/or using these to add to my existing experimental setups and ongoing systems that I have already tested and proven to work as designed.

I also create group buys for pallet loads of panels. I test, experiment, and use solar grid tie systems mostly now and getting ready for off grid systems. You can catch up on most other projects at my website at www.gbreisch.com and www.solavei.com/gbreisch  and Facebook groups I have created. One group among about 20 is "SolarSchool" - some other groups start with "SandSpringsOK" you can search.

Thanks for reading this post,
Gary W. Breisch

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External Battery Charger to Cell Phones + More ideas

Update to Old below:

We, the public, still need a device we can charge are smartphone batteries using a stand alone, external charger so we can buy some extra batteries from you.  Now if the smartphone builder would design their phones to be able to slip a battery in and out the side without having to take off the back of the phone and break off fingernails and all, that is what I call an advancement.  All devices need a relatively easy way to slip in and out battery packs, including Solar Systems and electric vehicles for quick change out and backup batteries for extended mileage or use.

Go to Facebook and friend Gary W. Breisch for more ideas on this and many other somewhat related subjects.  Check out his groups in Facebook and Google + regarding Solar, Electric Vehicles, Organic Gardening, Local Honey and Bee Products, SandSpringsOK groups, and SolarSchool to name a few interests. Also visit www.gbreisch.com for more information and motivation.
 
Old: I want an External Battery Charger for my 2 phones. One is a SGH-T959V and a  SCH-R930. I sometime run out of power in the phone so I would like to take the battery out to charge it in an external charger while I put one that is already charged back in the phone so I can keep working.  Now I have to take it off the computer and charge it on an ac connection to get it to work.  I tethering eats up the battery and cannot charge it fast enough to keep up with the power consumption.   You would think that the Samsung Galaxy S II phones would have a good enough charging system to keep up with computer hotspot or tethering use but it will die after 2 to 3 hours or less of use even while hooked up to the computer with USB connection. Have you heard of Solavei yet?  www.solavei.com\gbreisch  - let me know above and if you get a chance to visit my Solavei link.

Sprint vs U. S. Cellular vs Solavei

Sprint vs U. S. Cellular vs Solavei  

Need For Timely Data Reports From Wireless Providers of Data, Voice, and Text Services

I first got a sprint data plan and card hardware that I used in my router for my home computer system years ago, sometime back in or near 2007 and have used it up to the day I recently fired Sprint. I was paying about $62 a month for "so called" unlimited  usage.  A couple of years or so after getting the card I was emailed by Sprint that I was  using to much data stream.  So I wrote them and called them about it and asked them the definition of "unlimited" at the time.  The continued to send me warnings and email when I approached or was over 5GB. 

About 6 months after that, I saw ads on TV that had the president of Sprint say the same thing I had asked them about "unlimited" and the pledged to provide "unlimited".   I retired and decided to reduce my monthly bills so I would not get in debt with all the expenses so I had a family member who worked for Sprint tell me he could get my plan changed to get my bill down to about half or so.  So I went for it and soon thereafter find that the deal was tainted in that instead of "unlimited", I was limited with the so called "employee" plan to only 5GB much to my surprise when I got a bill for way more than I want to publish here.   They forgave me for a bulk of the bill and I started to seriously watch my usage from then on.  The called the new "employee" plan, the Advantage Plan or something like that.

Since I was on the Advantage Plan which gave me 5GB of data per month for a total of about $32, I had to watch my usage closely to avoid the high additional cost of overage.  I tried for a couple of years to get Sprint to email me daily/weekly or alerts when my usage was over my time points.  Their site has usage data but I could never verify or get them to report on the timing of such data use reports.  Their data report was not dated and time reported so that I could verify my actual use at a point in time, especially at the end of a monthly billing period. 

I told them that I want accurate, timely, usage data for the period of my service.  I need the total of the end of the period at the end of the period and not several days later.  I need to know the time or the usage total reading too. 

 I developed a nice spreadsheet where I entered the data uage at the time I obtained it on their billing website for my account. I kept finding too much time delay in the usage report.  I needed timely usage/time data for my spreadsheet analysis and planning of usage. However, even with non-exact reports by Sprint, I was able to manage my time to have little to no overage.  I could not get Sprint to understand what customers like me want to manage their usage to keep cost down.

The employee left Sprint due to what he described as "unreasonable" decisions of Sprint of how they treat their customers and employees.  He is now very happy working for Verizon.  Meanwhile, I get a letter that Sprint is going to raise the price of my plan to to about $45 and give me 6GB instead of 5GB.  I have been looking for alternative was to combine my activities wirelessly to one simple provider to reduce my monthly wireless charges for INTERNET and phone activity and needs. 

Solavei looked the most promising but they do not yet provide Wifi Hotspot or Tethering services to their "unlimited" voice, data, and texting services for $49/mo. yet.  4G networks have not come alive locally yet too for all the local providers from the research I have done too.  U. S. Cellular does provide the services but not at the "unlimited" price advertised by Solavei but, with Google Voice one can have 5GB of data with the ability to tether or hotspot for less than $95 without having to buy another device using my Samsung Galaxy 2 Aviator smartphone.  Here is the suspected drawback... slow when I ran a trial of the tethering or hotspot compared to Sprint about 4 months ago. 
Maybe that has or will change for the better.  That did not reduce my bill much but at least I am saving some money and will still be able to access the INTERNET on my phone, home computer system, or notebook computer mobility or at home.  

It seems fair to say that Sprint has no provisions to help seniors or retired people on a tight budget, good, reliable, and inexpensive data services.  I plan to continue to research Solavei and especially consider them when it is time to replace my current phone which is only a few months old and the one I got to replace an HTC desire that did not last over 1.8 years with USC before it totally quit and will not turn on again. 
The new phone that I would prefer, not knowing as much about the cheaper ones that will work with Solavei, would cost over $500 which is definitely not in my near future budget at this point in time.  When you do a simple financial analysis of the total cost of your wireless usage, then it is not feasible to switch to Solavei even if they had the ability to hotspot at this time with the cost of new equipment, but maybe with used equipment.
Update - recently I used it with tethering with the upgrade to 5GB data with tethering plan for $25 added to my phone plan.  They were supposed to turn it on at the same time I cut Sprint off but like most, they did it different than discussed.  Hope they do not charge for the early upgrade but at least they will give me a cut if it is detected by me on the bill (hope in one hand and ....). It is faster than Sprint recently and saves me money to boot till I can get Solavei to provide the  same for less plus get me a phone like their HTC One for much less than the $500 they ask.

Sand Springs Oklahoma Gardeners United (Cooperative)

I am looking for or wanting to create a local urban farmers cooperative to sell locally grown produce. 

I found a cooperative but it was out of Oklahoma City (http://www.oklahomafood.coop) and not Tulsa or Sand Springs, Oklahoma (OK). 

Someone might want to join it locally and car pool produce to OKC but that is too far and costly for individuals locally to travel. We need to develop a no cost or low cost local list and group to organize and help the local gardeners. 

In my retirement I have started to spend much of my time vegetable gardening on my 1 acre parcel. My affective area for most of my gardening is only about a half acre however I have spaced it out using terracing. I and developing the terracing as I go with the rich soil and better use for rain water management. 

On April 30, 2012 morning I went out and cut, washed, and bagged several pounds of Red Romaine and Bright Green Grand Rapids Leaf Lettuce and realized I need to find people wanting to buy fresh vegetables since I cannot eat enough to keep up with it and do not want to just toss it into the compost pile and waste it. I need to join or create a list of gardeners and individuals who can help market the local produce. 

People looking for fresh vegetables need a local list of those offering it fresh from their gardens. Gardeners need a way to turn their produce into money to offset cost of seeds, supplies, and resources for their hard work and to encourage more local vegetable produce. A list of local buyers is needed too. 

Local vegetable stands, food services, restaurants, or institutions wanting fresh local produce are welcome to join the communication effort to spread the word expend the list. 

Contact me at gary@gbreisch.com if you have any information about existing resources or if you want to be added to the list of interested individuals who want to be part of such a cooperative or Local Gardeners United in or near Sand Springs, OK.