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• Solar Products that are competitively priced and designed to meet your needs
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• We only sell solar products that make sense to us
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• Constantly developing solar technology that makes sense for your dollar

Solar Heating Confession

I installed 7 - WSE47 panels on my 30 by 40 ft machine shed this fall. I have in floor heating with electric heat. During the month of December 08 we had lots of -30 deg C days. The system worked amazing heating the water tank over 30 deg. C. With about a 15 deg drop returning to the water tank after returning thru the floor. I estimate that this system will pay for itself in about two years and will save me about $60,000 in heating bills over the life of the system which should be about 20 years

Don Elliott Farmer Sonningdale Sask.

2009 New Year Confession

Happy New Year to you. Today in the Yukon it was -41c warming to -33c the sun was out nice. The solar system was heating the water at 35c.
Nice and hot. I had a neighbour over looking at things and he was very impressed with it. Who would have known that one can get that kind of heat out of the sun on a cold Yukon day. As the day light gets a little longer it will only get better. I will start to show and tell a little more. I think every one will want one in their home in the north. Good deal. Have your self a good day.

Comments on February 12th 2009

Hope all is well on your end. We are seeing more sun these days. Today started at -33c warming to -25c I watched the heat in the system go up to 72c it was so hot one could not put your hand near any of the lines.
Wow! It has been preheating the water tank good.

Scott Jamieson

#2 LED Lights

Led are ideal for Canada because the are instant on at 60 below, a nice sunny day in Saskatchewan. LED lights last forever and burn no energy. If you trying to save energy costs they are a must.

Checkout our great pricing and why WSE LED Lighting is your best choice

LED Lighting Confession

This comparison is the energy saving replacing a 60 watt incandescent light bulb with an equivalent LED light with a cost of 10 cents a kilowatt hour.

Your cost per year for 60 watt = $37.00

Cost for equivalent LED Light  =  $3.70

Saving per Year  using LED     = $33.30

If you have 20 lights in your house  =$666 saving per year

This does not take into consideration that the LED will operate 12 years at an operating time of 12 hours per day.

#3 Wind Turbine

a rotating machine which converts the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine is usually called a windmill. If the mechanical energy is then converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator, wind turbine, wind power unit (WPU), wind energy converter (WEC), or aerogenerator.

To get you started down the right road in using wind energy, we will outline the basic system components and types. It will help you understand the systems better, so you will make better choices if you decide that wind energy is right for you.

Off-Grid Wind-Electric System

Off-grid wind-electric systems are battery based. People generally choose these systems because their home or other energy use is not connected to the grid, and connection would be expensive. Others prefer the independence of offgrid systems, or live where utilities and governments make it difficult to tie a renewable energy system to the grid.

Off-grid systems are limited in capacity by the size of the generating sources (wind turbine, solar-electric array, fuelfired generator, etc.), the resources available, and the battery bank size. Off-grid homeowners have to learn to live within the limitations of their system capacity.

1-The wind generator is what actually generates electricity in the system. Most modern wind generators are upwind designs (blades are on the side of the tower that faces into the wind), and couple permanent magnet alternators directly to the rotor (blades). Three-bladed wind generators are most common, providing a good compromise between efficiency and rotor balance. Small wind turbines protect themselves from high winds (governing) by tilting the rotor up or to the side, or by changing the pitch of the blades. Electricity is transmitted down the tower on wires, most often as three-phase wild alternating current (AC). It’s called “wild” because the voltage and frequency vary with the rotational speed of the wind turbine. The output is then rectified to direct current (DC) to charge batteries or to be inverted for grid connection

2- A wind generator tower is very often more expensive than the turbine. The tower puts the turbine up in the “fuel”— the smooth strong winds that give the most energy. Wind turbines should be sited at least 30 feet (9 m) higher than anything within 500 feet (152 m). Three common types of towers are tilt-up, fixed-guyed, and freestanding. Towers must be specifically engineered for the lateral thrust and weight of the turbine, and should be adequately grounded to protect your equipment against lightning damage.

3- Most wind turbines have some means of stopping the turbine for repairs, in an emergency, for routine maintenance, or when the energy is not needed. Many turbines have “dynamic braking,” which simply shorts out the three electrical phases and acts as a disconnect. Others have mechanical braking, either via a disc or drum brake, activated by a small winch at the base of the tower. Still others have mechanical furling, which swings the rotor out of the wind. Mechanical braking is usually more effective and reliable than dynamic braking

4-5- A wind-electric charge controller’s primary function is to protect your battery bank from overcharging. It does this by monitoring the battery bank—when the bank is fully charged, the controller sends energy from the battery bank to a dump (diversion) load. Many wind-electric charge controllers are built into the same box as the rectifiers (AC-to-DC converters). Overcurrent protection is needed between the battery and controller/ dump load. In batteryless grid-tie systems, in normal operation, since the inverter is selling whatever energy the turbine is generating. But there will be some control function in the case of grid failure, and there may be electronics before the inverter to regulate the input voltage.

6-Your wind generator will produce electricity whenever the wind blows above the cut-in speed. If your system is off grid, you’ll need a battery bank—a group of batteries wired together—to store energy so you can have electricity when it’s not windy. For offgrid systems, battery banks are typically sized to keep household electricity running for one to three calm days. Grid-intertied
systems also can include battery banks to provide emergency backup during blackouts—perfect for keeping critical electric loads operating until the grid is up again.

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