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The thoughts, designs, and plans for a heavily over engineered blue kids play house.
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Table of Contents
The Project
Kids need a place that is all there own. In a fortuitous, and mutually beneficial arrangement, my renewable energy tinkering has benefitted my kids with upgrades to their play house. And that has also benefitted my conscious when I tell them go play outside, no matter the time or weather.
Principles Leading To This Design
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Why not just bring in elecrical mains from the utility company?
- Safety. My daughters are playing in there as young as 2 years old, and I want them to be able to play with forks and not worry about them sticking it in a wall socket.
- Sure You could bring in a long conduit with romex and put a large DC converter. Fair Enough. I did not want to deal with code compliance, and I wanted to be able to add more power later, with out having to run mess with digging and with conduit.
- I also enjoyed getting my "hands dirty" with creating an off-grid principled system.
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Why not just use a 12V system?
- Max Watts in for my MPPT is double with 24V systems
- Wire is cheaper to run smaller gauge wire - for smaller currents
- Just using a 12v dc-dc converter to get a 12v rail
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Why not Use Bigger Panels?
- I would have if I was starting today. I would have used ~400W panels. But I limpped into the projerct.
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Why not use a 48V system?
- If I was running my regular house on a solar+battery system, I would indeed use a 48V system, however that would have needlessly upped my budget on the project.
Systems
Structural Systems
- Rigid Structure
- Insulative Systems
- Vapor Barriers
- Sheathing Barriers
Power Systems
- Solar Panels
- Mounting
- Wiring
- Charge Controller
- What to look for when buying
- Batteries
- Low Voltage Cutoff
- Power Shunt
- Configuration
Electrical Systems
General Working Knowledge of Electrical Systems
Ingredients
- Fuse Panel
- Car/Blade Style Fuses
- Wiring
- High Capacity Wire (Battery System)
- Lug Terminals + Lug Crimpers
- MC4 Terminals + MC4 Crimpers
- Low Power Wire (Wire Leads For Loads)
- Automatic Wire Strippers
- Low Voltage Lighting / Speaker Wire Style
- Cat6 Style
- DC Voltage Converters
- Lighting
- Space Fans
- USB Chargers
- Indoor Outdoor interface
Thermo/Climate Systems
- Indoor Unit
- Outdoor Units
Future Plans
New Hardware
- Solar Furnace
Climate Control Automation
- Planning Thermostat based on Energy Constraints
- Wemos Relays for sidecar activatation of various
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Roadmap
- [x] Add Changelog
- [x] Add back to top links
- [ ] Add Additional Templates w/ Examples
- [ ] Add "components" document to easily copy & paste sections of the readme
- [ ] Multi-language Support
- [ ] Chinese
- [ ] Spanish
See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).
Contributing
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- Create your Feature Branch (
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git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature') - Push to the Branch (
git push origin feature/AmazingFeature) - Open a Pull Request
License
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.
Contact
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Hat Tip Resources
- Will Prowse
- Dave Poz
- Desertsun02
- Sister Project: SolarPi
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