O.K ! Now what are your needs ? A suite of energy efficient appliances for a start. Click here to examine a typical scenario of an energy efficient home.
Now Click here to go to my energy estimation sheet, to formulate an energy budget for your particular lifestyle
Once you know how many daily watt-hours you're going to consume, the power system can be designed. Click here to size the system.
Every installation is different but I have designed systems for most applications the "Planet Suite" is our collection of perfectly balanced "heavenly bodies".
Hungry for more ? For 15 years my Solar Technology Designers Manual has been the bible for thousands of enthusiastic converts. 160 A4 pages crammed with renewable enlightenment for just Au$160.00.
"History Archive " - a picture gallery of some of my great solar installations over the last quarter century!
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Real Life Science
Be not a water waster. Rotaloo W.A. has relied on Unisun for many years for remote power systems for RotaLoo Composting toilets.
What do you do when your closest relatives are in fear of extinction?
Take some time out and see some real Australian talent The Australian Photographic Society
A solar house project in Queensland on Bribe Island
Picture this a photoblog from Western Australia and beyond
Save energy on transportation rent A bus for every event midlandbus.com.au
To my master's at the Royal Hospital School. (1965-1970 AD)
Who handed me the key's to a new age. www.royalhospitalschool.org.
In an attempt to present solar power to you all in an attractive,
inspiring, and comprehensible manner, I have designed the following standard solar power systems, for domestic and light industrial purposes, and named them after the planets in our solar system. " The Planets Suite" They are based on my quarter century of practical experience in designing and installing such systems.
The average daily solar energy delivery is calculated at the "equinox" ( mid season) with a daily average solar insolation level of 5.5 peak sun hours, as typical of Mediterranean climates, such as Perth, Western Australia, Lat 32 deg South. The watt-hours produced are nett,ie, genuine energy available for use, after system losses.
So That 1000 watt-hours = 1 Kilowatt-hour = 1 unit of electricity, as you would be familiar with on your power bill.
The "Planets Suite" is designed to be used in conjunction with the existing mains supply. If you wish to use them as "stand alone" then battery capacities will need to be increased by a factor of 3 to 5 times depending on latitude and cloud factor.
"Grid Switched" is the term I have coined, to describe the operation of my proprietory solar energized, building scale, Uninteruptable Power Supply. (U.P.S ) Thus it becomes a Solar Uninterruptable Power Supply (S.U.P.S) !
It is a "Non grid feeding system", which value adds the precious solar resource, by it's intelligent and selective application within the building. As well as generating energy, it substantially enhances the lifespan of valuable and sensitive appliances. These are often mysteriously damaged over time, by a corrupt and volatile mains supply, contaminated with harmonic distortions, surges and voltage spikes, induced by high power, neigboring equipments, such as air conditioning compressore, arc welders etc.
Grid switched systems supply certain power points with solar electricity, and other power points from the mains. Non priority appliances automatically revert to mains power depending on weather conditions and state of charge of the energy storage system ( battery), leaving priority circuits such as computers, lighting, office equipment, communications etc continuously on pure, stable solar power. Grid switched systems, because they can be electrically isolated from the mains, provide an "electrical firewall",in "solar mode", protecting sensitive, valuable appliances from damaging mains borne disturbances and outages.
Grid feed solar power systems are a technical and political simplism, a disastrous misapplication of funding and endeavour. It forms no "solar base load capacity", or encourages the conservation of energy, or reduction of demand !
Furthermore, by installing these primitive, first generation solar systems you increase the energy bills of others less fortunate and importantly, that solar energy misses the morning and evening demand peaks, requiring more fossil fuel power stations for stability ? Grid feed solar is a disaster !
The answer is energy storage on premises, to create permanent solar base load and a continuous stable supply. You are not used to thinking like this, but it is the future, and will in fact save the future. The key to it is the "Grid switching system", which automatically switches between Solar/battery inverter and mains supply as required, massively reducing the size of the battery required, and assisting the mains handle peak loads.
DO NOT SELL SOLAR POWER DOWN THE DRAIN. Better you invest in improving the efficiency of your home and its electrical appliances than try to graft wings onto a brick. O.K ? Long live the planet Earth, and the children of tomorrow !
Energetically yours.
Christopher Darker.
Solar Grand Master.
"Every Star a Sun ! Sun's have planet's !! Is your world flat??
