HarryN
Solar Enthusiast
I have a one man off grid shop in Livermore, CA, near Livermore airport. This is on the East side of the SF Bay area.
Historically I have specialized in helping people with their conversion van electrical systems and solar.
Increasingly, I am involved with small back up power systems, such as:
- Taking refrigeration mostly off grid via hybrid solar / grid systems
- Natural disaster prep and relief to help people have power so that they can store food and light cooking.
- Emergency system preparations
- Ruggedized designs for vibration resistance and extended temperature range use.
- I do some volunteer work with disaster relief and the big hurricane in Puerto Rico inspired one of my products with a focus on that application. Over time it has improved / evolved to deal with requested changes and component availability / changes. It is on rev 3.1 if that tells you anything.
My youngest son is in community college and sometimes he helps out. He has been helping out for many years – much longer than you might expect for someone his age.
To the extent possible, I try to have customers use one of my pre-engineered designs, as I can build them in the shop and fully test them on one of my two test stands prior to them arriving with their van or trailer.
The internal components are mostly made in USA, a few from Canada / Mexico, and I am down to mostly just 1 or 2 items from the far east where there I have not been able to find an alternative supplier.
All of the components can be easily purchased on-line using the p/n on the item, so customers have full right of repair and can buy their own parts as needed in a long term way.
Any marine electrician in the world can do repairs / parts replacements, although this has been fairly rare since I use very good quality parts that are actually designed for mobile use or even more severe.
In addition to systems that I build, customer can “rent the shop for the day” and use the tools and my assistance to work on whatever they want together. This is how I handle custom requests – we work on it together at a fixed rate per day. (plus parts )
I will post a few photos of example projects that I have worked on with customers over the next few days.
Most systems are in the 1 – 4 kW, 120 vac range, plus the usual DC voltages for powering mobile items.
If someone needs a different voltage / frequency for their VAC, this is no problem. Just a slightly different inverter p/n.
Typically 24 volts for smaller systems, 48 volts for 2 kW and above.
All offerings are available with either AGM or LiFe batteries, depending on the project goals.
I am set up to help with local installations but also have power systems in multiple states that are freight delivered to the customer for self installation.
Historically I have specialized in helping people with their conversion van electrical systems and solar.
Increasingly, I am involved with small back up power systems, such as:
- Taking refrigeration mostly off grid via hybrid solar / grid systems
- Natural disaster prep and relief to help people have power so that they can store food and light cooking.
- Emergency system preparations
- Ruggedized designs for vibration resistance and extended temperature range use.
- I do some volunteer work with disaster relief and the big hurricane in Puerto Rico inspired one of my products with a focus on that application. Over time it has improved / evolved to deal with requested changes and component availability / changes. It is on rev 3.1 if that tells you anything.
My youngest son is in community college and sometimes he helps out. He has been helping out for many years – much longer than you might expect for someone his age.
To the extent possible, I try to have customers use one of my pre-engineered designs, as I can build them in the shop and fully test them on one of my two test stands prior to them arriving with their van or trailer.
The internal components are mostly made in USA, a few from Canada / Mexico, and I am down to mostly just 1 or 2 items from the far east where there I have not been able to find an alternative supplier.
All of the components can be easily purchased on-line using the p/n on the item, so customers have full right of repair and can buy their own parts as needed in a long term way.
Any marine electrician in the world can do repairs / parts replacements, although this has been fairly rare since I use very good quality parts that are actually designed for mobile use or even more severe.
In addition to systems that I build, customer can “rent the shop for the day” and use the tools and my assistance to work on whatever they want together. This is how I handle custom requests – we work on it together at a fixed rate per day. (plus parts )
I will post a few photos of example projects that I have worked on with customers over the next few days.
Most systems are in the 1 – 4 kW, 120 vac range, plus the usual DC voltages for powering mobile items.
If someone needs a different voltage / frequency for their VAC, this is no problem. Just a slightly different inverter p/n.
Typically 24 volts for smaller systems, 48 volts for 2 kW and above.
All offerings are available with either AGM or LiFe batteries, depending on the project goals.
I am set up to help with local installations but also have power systems in multiple states that are freight delivered to the customer for self installation.
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