Sunday, April 27, 2008

Tom's Solar Electric Class

This past week Tom spent in Marshfield, WI taking an Advanced II Photovoltaic Class provided by the Midwest Renewable Energy Association.
Tom was really inspired by the class. He said there were people there as far away as Massachusetts. There were 8 people in his class including the instructor.

It was a great way to celebrate Earth Day.

The class learned how to install two different types of PV panels...a fixed panel (above pic) and a tracking panel.

They installed these panels at the Marshfield Technical College.

This is a pic of a combining box...Tom says it's the PV electrical disconnect.

His teacher liked to call this the battery coffin...

He came home stoked and ready to install a couple of these in our backyard.

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