none2u wrote: Anyone care to comment on the feasibility of using solar power to power 12 volt Leds in a house. Doable. Only do it for the experience or you do not have mains in that location. The "light" is different. Solar power aint cheap. Good panels cost. Good regulators cost, otherwise you can have a high ongoing cost of deep discharge lead acid batteries. Small installations
Anyone care to comment on the feasibility of using solar power to power 12 volt Leds in a house. I bought a red 5 bulb Whelen taillight for a bugout motorcycle I,m almost done with. . It is so damn bright I wish I had bought a smaller 3 bulb one. It uses about half a watt of power. People shade their eyes at night behind me at a stop light. I,m not sure why this wouldn't be the best way
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:23:40 -0700, Frank Gilliland <wïrenut@NOSPAMïcehouse.net> wrote: Yes, you can light up a house with LEDs. No, you probably can't find a ready made system or standardized components, and probably won't for a very long time, even though we've had the capability to do it for well over a decade. It's not a matter of 12 volts versus 120 volts, but one of corporate greed
Retief wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:15:35 -0400, Bob Brock <bbrock@i-americia.net> wrote: Do you, or anyone else, have an estimate of the productive lifetime of such lights? Would rewiring the lights to place the solar panel a foot of so away from the light be problematic? Most (high power) LEDs are estimated with a lifetime of around 50,000 hours. However, they could
