How Much Sun Does a Portable Solar Panel Need to Charge?
You set the panel out at 7am, came back at 6pm, and the power station is showing 40%. Eleven hours of daylight, and less than half a charge. So how…
You set the panel out at 7am, came back at 6pm, and the power station is showing 40%. Eleven hours of daylight, and less than half a charge. So how…
Two in the morning, the power’s been out for hours, and nothing in the room is moving. That’s the situation behind this question, and it isn’t really about fans. The…
Most maintenance advice for these units is about the months they spend in a cupboard. That’s covered but it isn’t where the wear actually happens. The wear happens while you’re…
Hurricane season ends. The unit that got you through two outages goes into a cupboard, and nobody thinks about it again until June. That gap is where the damage happens.…
Day two of the outage. The fridge is plugged in and running, the sun is finally out, and you’re standing there with a solar panel wondering whether you have to…
You open the freezer the morning after an outage and you already know. The bags have gone soft, there’s water pooling at the bottom, and a week’s worth of meat…
The power goes out ten minutes into the match. Or halfway through the evening news, or in the middle of the film the kids have been waiting for all week.…
Look at your last twelve JPS bills. For most Jamaican businesses, electricity sits in the top three controllable operating costs behind payroll, usually ahead of rent. Now think about the…
Three quotes, all of them labelled “hybrid solar system,” and the highest is nearly double the lowest. Same house, same roof, same problem. Nothing in any of the three documents…
Two years after the install, the JPS bill starts creeping back up. Nothing has changed in the house same appliances, same habits but the numbers say otherwise. The panels look…