Guerilla Solar Update 11-7-2010.avi

Surprise Surprise as Gomer Pyle once said. I was trying to figure what was drawing power from the grid with everything off, and you will see just what was the phantom power load that I had not taken into consideration. It was discovered by accident when I walked by the power meter when it was pitch black outside, and meter was reading power consumption rather than generation. Another layer of the onion peeled back, we learn something new each day.

Stay tuned for solar system update with panel mounting of components. Guerilla Power Station South will be online soon after initial shakedown..... he he

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Solar
• Guerilla Solar
• Grid Tie Inverters
• Emergency Power
• Backup Power

[sparktastic1]

Does this mean that your solar panel array is growing too?

I quite like those WANF meters. We can't buy the killawatt meters here, so the WANF is the next best thing. The blue back lighting is nice and they seem fairly accurate at low power levels.

[Xringer]

Each power meter is using 433 mw.. Not too bad.. Unless you are running on small batteries. :)

Those Kill-a-watt meters do a good job of exposing the parasitic power drains,

like when the sun goes down and your PowerJack is still plugged in to the AC.. :(