Solar Success TOC – Full Content Details
Solar Success TOC – Table of Contents
- Preface
- Terminology
- Chapter 1 – Solar Reality – an overview – How much solar is available?
- Solar – what runs/what doesn’t
- Stand-alone solar systems
- Grid-connect
- What solar modules produce
- Solar access
- Service importance
- First all-solar town
- Chapter 2 – Lighting
- Fluorescent tubes and globes
- Compact fluorescents
- Light-emitting diodes
- Light colour
- Lighting levels
- Recommended light levels
- Chapter 3 – Fridges & freezers
- Fridge ratings
- Domestic fridges
- Chapter 4 – Air conditioning
- Air conditioner star ratings
- Air conditioner types
- Inverter air conditioners
- Reducing air conditioner consumption
- Cooling capacity required
- Reverse-cycle air conditioners
- Chapter 5 – Washing machines
- Washing machine – energy ratings
- Water efficiency ratings
- Buying caution
- Rebates
- Chapter 6 – Clothes dryers – Dryer types
- Chapter 7 – Dishwashers
- Energy ratings
- Saving energy
- Chapter 8 – Power tools
- Chapter 9 – Phantom loads
- Example phantom loads
- Remedying phantom loads
- Chapter 10 – TVs and computers
- TV energy draw
- Computers
- Chapter 11 – Water
- Rainwater tanks
- Rainwater legislation
- Pumping water
- Pump energy draw
- Pressure systems
- Constant pressure pumps
- Variable speed pumps
- Pressure tanks
- Irrigation
- Valve control
- Bore pumps
- Pumping losses
- Calculating pump pressure
- Chapter 12 – Swimming pools
- Keeping water clean
- Recent trends
- Chapter 13 – Ponds
- Ultra-violet sterilisers
- Pumps – general
- Solar pumps
- Chapter 14 – Solar
- What solar modules produce
- Nominal Operating Cell Temperature
- How much sun?
- Tracking the sun
- Shadowing tolerance and loss
- Weather effects
- Buying solar modules
- Chapter 15 – Solar modules – voltage & current
- Increasing voltage
- Power Maximisers
- Solar output beware – it’s not what it seems
- Chapter 16 – Solar regulation
- Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) regulators
- Chapter 17 – Batteries
- Battery types
- Battery capacity
- Interconnecting batteries
- Battery location
- Chapter 18 – Battery charging
- The battery charging area
- Chapter 19 – Energy monitoring
- Chapter 20 – Generators
- Diesel generators for long term use
- Battery charging from a generator
- Auto-start/stop
- Generator noise
- Generator size
- Generators and switch-mode chargers
- Chapter 21 – Alternative power – wind & hydro
- Larger wind generators
- Micro hydro-electric
- Turbine types
- Ram pumps
- Geothermal space heating
- Passive and direct solar heating
- Energy efficiency first
- Site selection
- Chapter 22 – Alternative energy storage – fuel cells
- Fuel cell history
- Commercial development
- How fuel cells work
- Chapter 23 – Inverters
- Silicon camels
- Stand-alone inverters
- Inverters for fixed wiring
- Grid-connect inverters
- Battery backed grid-connect
- Chapter 24 – Energy auditing
- Existing usage
- Chapter 25 – Scaling stand-alone systems
- Available irradiation
- Needed solar capacity
- Solar regulators
- Example of solar regulator sizing
- Battery capacity
- Battery chargers
- Generators for battery charging
- Fuel cells
- Chapter 26 – Meters & measuring
- How to measure solar current output
- How to measure battery voltage
- How to measure battery and other heavy currents
- Current shunts
- Chapter 27 – Installing – legal
- Working on batteries
- Inverter safety
- Chapter 28 – Installing the system
- Reducing voltage drop
- All 12/24-volts
- The inverter decides
- Solar array voltage
- Establishing cable size
- How most cable is rated
- Auto cable
- Current ratings
- Cable (voltage separation)
- Terminating cables
- Power posts
- Crimping tool & lugs
- Protecting cabling
- DC circuit breakers
- AC circuit breakers
- Fuses
- Solar modules need unobstructed sun
- Solar mountings
- Connecting modules
- Solar modules lightning protection
- Testing series-connected solar modules
- Testing parallel-connected modules
- Earthing solar module frames
- Solar regulator
- Programming solar regulators
- Locating energy monitors
- Locating batteries
- Example
- Large capacity battery banks
- Battery chargers
- Current shunts
- Switches for 12/24-volts DC
- Power outlets for 12/24-volts
- Inverters
- Generators
- Generators- auto/changeover
- Water pumps
- Pressure accumulators
- Air conditioners
- Refrigerators
- Fridge cable size
- Fusing fridges
- Chapter 29 – Constructing a Stand-alone System
- Chapter 30 – Grid-connect
- The grid network
- Electricity usage
- Distributed energy storage
- Grid-connect
- Going off-grid
- Climate-optimised solar
- Strategies to consider now
- Chapter 31 – Example systems
- Comments
- Example 2 – mid-sized cabin
- Updates
- Further update
- Example 4 – an ongoing (Queensland) system
- The costs
- The savings
- Update
- Chapter 32 – Living with solar
- Seeming lack of solar input
- Battery maintenance
- Leaking batteries
- Solar modules
- Chapter 33 – Our solar systems
- The Broome house’s structure
- Extending the solar
- Water
- Irrigation
- Swimming pool
- The end of an era
- Chapter 34 – Technical Terms Explained
- References & contacts etc.
- Useful sources of information
- Recommended books and publications
- Relevant standards
- Preface
- Terminology
- Chapter 1 – Solar Reality – an overview – How much solar is available?
- Solar – what runs/what doesn’t
- Stand-alone solar systems
- Grid-connect
- What solar modules produce
- Solar access
- Service importance
- First all-solar town
- Chapter 2 – Lighting
- Fluorescent tubes and globes
- Compact fluorescents
- Light-emitting diodes
- Light colour
- Lighting levels
- Recommended light levels
- Chapter 3 – Fridges & freezers
- Fridge ratings
- Domestic fridges
- Chapter 4 – Air conditioning
- Air conditioner star ratings
- Air conditioner types
- Inverter air conditioners
- Reducing air conditioner consumption
- Cooling capacity required
- Reverse-cycle air conditioners
- Chapter 5 – Washing machines
- Washing machine – energy ratings
- Water efficiency ratings
- Buying caution
- Rebates
- Chapter 6 – Clothes dryers – Dryer types
- Chapter 7 – Dishwashers
- Energy ratings
- Saving energy
- Chapter 8 – Power tools
- Chapter 9 – Phantom loads
- Example phantom loads
- Remedying phantom loads
- Chapter 10 – TVs and computers
- TV energy draw
- Computers
- Chapter 11 – Water
- Rainwater tanks
- Rainwater legislation
- Pumping water
- Pump energy draw
- Pressure systems
- Constant pressure pumps
- Variable speed pumps
- Pressure tanks
- Irrigation
- Valve control
- Bore pumps
- Pumping losses
- Calculating pump pressure
- Chapter 12 – Swimming pools
- Keeping water clean
- Recent trends
- Chapter 13 – Ponds
- Ultra-violet sterilisers
- Pumps – general
- Solar pumps
- Chapter 14 – Solar
- What solar modules produce
- Nominal Operating Cell Temperature
- How much sun?
- Tracking the sun
- Shadowing tolerance and loss
- Weather effects
- Buying solar modules
- Chapter 15 – Solar modules – voltage & current
- Increasing voltage
- Power Maximisers
- Solar output beware – it’s not what it seems
- Chapter 16 – Solar regulation
- Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) regulators
- Chapter 17 – Batteries
- Battery types
- Battery capacity
- Interconnecting batteries
- Battery location
- Chapter 18 – Battery charging
- The battery charging area
- Chapter 19 – Energy monitoring
- Chapter 20 – Generators
- Diesel generators for long term use
- Battery charging from a generator
- Auto-start/stop
- Generator noise
- Generator size
- Generators and switch-mode chargers
- Chapter 21 – Alternative power – wind & hydro
- Larger wind generators
- Micro hydro-electric
- Turbine types
- Ram pumps
- Geothermal space heating
- Passive and direct solar heating
- Energy efficiency first
- Site selection
- Chapter 22 – Alternative energy storage – fuel cells
- Fuel cell history
- Commercial development
- How fuel cells work
- Chapter 23 – Inverters
- Silicon camels
- Stand-alone inverters
- Inverters for fixed wiring
- Grid-connect inverters
- Battery backed grid-connect
- Chapter 24 – Energy auditing
- Existing usage
- Chapter 25 – Scaling stand-alone systems
- Available irradiation
- Needed solar capacity
- Solar regulators
- Example of solar regulator sizing
- Battery capacity
- Battery chargers
- Generators for battery charging
- Fuel cells
- Chapter 26 – Meters & measuring
- How to measure solar current output
- How to measure battery voltage
- How to measure battery and other heavy currents
- Current shunts
- Chapter 27 – Installing – legal
- Working on batteries
- Inverter safety
- Chapter 28 – Installing the system
- Reducing voltage drop
- All 12/24-volts
- The inverter decides
- Solar array voltage
- Establishing cable size
- How most cable is rated
- Auto cable
- Current ratings
- Cable (voltage separation)
- Terminating cables
- Power posts
- Crimping tool & lugs
- Protecting cabling
- DC circuit breakers
- AC circuit breakers
- Fuses
- Solar modules need unobstructed sun
- Solar mountings
- Connecting modules
- Solar modules lightning protection
- Testing series-connected solar modules
- Testing parallel-connected modules
- Earthing solar module frames
- Solar regulator
- Programming solar regulators
- Locating energy monitors
- Locating batteries
- Example
- Large capacity battery banks
- Battery chargers
- Current shunts
- Switches for 12/24-volts DC
- Power outlets for 12/24-volts
- Inverters
- Generators
- Generators- auto/changeover
- Water pumps
- Pressure accumulators
- Air conditioners
- Refrigerators
- Fridge cable size
- Fusing fridges
- Chapter 29 – Constructing a Stand-alone System
- Chapter 30 – Grid-connect
- The grid network
- Electricity usage
- Distributed energy storage
- Grid-connect
- Going off-grid
- Climate-optimised solar
- Strategies to consider now
- Chapter 31 – Example systems
- Comments
- Example 2 – mid-sized cabin
- Updates
- Further update
- Example 4 – an ongoing (Queensland) system
- The costs
- The savings
- Update
- Chapter 32 – Living with solar
- Seeming lack of solar input
- Battery maintenance
- Leaking batteries
- Solar modules
- Chapter 33 – Our solar systems
- The Broome house’s structure
- Extending the solar
- Water
- Irrigation
- Swimming pool
- The end of an era
- Chapter 34 – Technical Terms Explained
- References & contacts etc.
- Useful sources of information
- Recommended books and publications
- Relevant standards