The Solar House

The Sun offers to us energy as light and heat, we can use those two forms of energy to generate electricity or to warm water. The content of the following study will try to use the resources of the solar light and the conversion to electricity that can be stored into batteries and will cover the basic resources of one small house.

The necessary tools for the construction of our solar power solution are the following ones:

-         Basic tools for electronics (welders, tin, screwdriver)

-         Electronic components (transistors, resistances, condensers)

-         Different equipments for electronics (Tester, pgm EPROM)

-         Solar Panels and Batteries.

System AC-DC

For one single family house, we think that the system more adapted of utilization of the solar light, is the system AC-DC this system uses the resources of low tension produced by the solar panels and stored into batteries (DC) in the form of 12 or 24 volts for utilization in domestic appliances like the computer or the Tv.  For the rest of the domestic appliances, like electrical light, we will use one inverter device that convert the 24 volts batteries into alternate tension of 220 volts (AC).  For the freezer, due it needs 220 volts AC and high power to start up, we will need a special inverter controlled by the proper freezer thermostat.

Preparation of land:

We study about a small house of about 30m2 in wood, on a plot of about 150m2. One time the plot is clean, we prepare a base of armed cement of about 15cm deep for supporting the house.  To this base we perform the capture of water and the outlet. We observe that one roof will be orientated to the south, this will facilitate to us the installation of the solar panels.

House installation:

It is a careful work, and must be perform by professionals as we can see in the images.

Closing of the plot and Solar Panels

In this phase we complete the closing of the plot and adapt the low part of the housing for diverse uses like batteries container, and a lumber room of other materials. We will mount the solar panels on a frame constructed based on profiles metallic and installed on the roof with an inclination adapted to the Sun.

Finished the electrical home circuit:

In this phase we have to convert several plugs of 220 volts AC in the house into special plugs for 12/24 volts DC for it, we will use a new type of plug monoposition for the use of DC.

That we will be able to use to power small domestic appliances to 12 or 24 volts

 And last one, we will install the batteries container.