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FREE electricity?

I've thought about building one of those, just to see if it would work like he claims. I've also thought that if they did work, he would be selling them himself.
 
I didn't read it all either, but it looks like one of those "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is" kinda things. :wink:
 
did you ever think to do a google search on
"make your own solar panels" there are lots of pages

and you can go to www.scribd.com and type in the same thing and there are ten plus pages to sort thru and you can download that and print it out and have your own book for just the cost of the paper....

I can't see paying $50 for something you can find on the internet for free, but by all means whatever floats your boat.
 
Chuck said:
I've thought about building one of those, just to see if it would work like he claims. I've also thought that if they did work, he would be selling them himself.
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It will work exactly as he claims! Go spend your $200 on the solar cells and hardware. For $200 your sure to be able to power up the toaster or maybe the radio, maybe even both! What he is not telling you is how much it would cost to power an entire house and have overages you could sell back to the power company. Solar cells are expensive, plus all of the associated hardware! You could buy used ones but then you would just have the remainder of their rated llfespan. Solar systems are great for remote locations to power up a single item like a submersible water well pump,an electric fence or maybe your house water heater. But, a whole house? Price prohibitive.
 
If something is heavy....it's usually expensive

If it tastes good....it's bad for you


If it's " free".....it's gonna cost you $$$$$
 
There seems to be several of these kind of deals offered out there. While I think it is a real stetch to promise to furnish enough electricity for your home, it still might be worth the $50, if this sort of thing interests you.

Looks to me like it is mostly how to hook up a series of solar calls. It would not be to hard to built a small wind powered generator with an auto altenater. Back in the 1930's lots of people built them with auto generators. There was even a company in Sioux City that sold ready made propellers, but most people made them from a 2X6. You could charge six volts batteries with these and run a radio, even two or three 25 watt bulbs. That was better then the kerosene lamp.

There was the Lejay manufacturing Co. that sold a booklet that showed how to make electrical motors and electric drills, using a pre 1930 Dodge generator. They had a kit to build an electric fencer, it used the viborater coil from a model T. My Dad bought one of these kits, I think from a hardware store for such a fencer. It replaced the viberator points with a different contact point then used a test tube with a marble in it set on an incline to activate it.
The fellow who was janiter at the high school gave me a Lejay manual
that showed how to build a chest type freezer. You had to buy the compressor though. This was about 1945.l

You can Goggle Lejay today and get a little information about this company.
 

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