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Solar Power with Genasun

2/11/2020

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Genasun has been the answer to an RFI free solar charging experience for George and Jeremy for many years.  This week, Ryan Gurin from Genasun joins us to talk all things solar power. We deep dive on charge controllers, battery technology, and panel technology.
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8 Comments
Phil N3CDY
2/12/2020 11:20:38

This was an excellent episode full of things I never knew. Good work !
And no I was not cutting the grass ! 73

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Ajay Kashikar VU3YWK
2/13/2020 12:18:38

Amazing discussion, learned a lot about batteries, charging, charge controllers and whole lot of other things

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Lloyd Merrill - W1LBM
2/13/2020 15:09:55

Great episode! This answered so many questions I had been wondering about. More episodes like this, please.

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Troy
2/13/2020 18:02:49

10 minutes into the episode and I've purchased a GV-5 for LiFePO4. Probably should have listened to the WHOLE episode to make sure i didn't need anything else. George/Jeremy - you're great and the show is a gift! Thank you!

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Jim-k7mk
2/14/2020 01:15:45

On the tilting panels topic... The RV Geeks just published a new video showing their solar setup with actuator lifted panels!
https://youtu.be/beS2qs9GkMo
Uses https://www.solarvector.net/ lifts.

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Brian Heinitz
2/16/2020 02:42:06

Great episode. If possible, a great followup episode might include a round table discussion with representatives from Powerfilm, Bioenno, and Genasun to walk through typical solutions for best builds for SOTA, Field Day, and base stations.

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Joe Hoffman
3/10/2020 15:48:17

The guy George mentioned at around 1:10 in the podcast is Will Prowse. All of his youtube video's are very worthwhile IMHO. He also has a DIY solar forum with a ton of good info and good people on it. I would recommend taking a look if you have an interest in Solar. I also recommended HRBO there as you can see here:

https://diysolarforum.com/threads/ham-radio-workbench-podcast.5157/

73,

Joe, W8JH

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Joe
3/10/2020 16:08:35

For Jeremy here is a simple tracker that uses small, cheap panels to turn a mount for the main panels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkhVomoD47g

For Ryan, here is an RV roof tilter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGNElgvtQ2c

73,

Joe, W8JH

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