Blog: Application Notes
Practical reading on planning solar application systems: street lighting, water pumping, hybrid generation and off-grid appliances.
Street Lighting Basics
How solar street light systems work, what decides a good layout, and the questions to settle before ordering.
Solar Water Pumping Basics
Sources, lifts, storage and daily demand: the working ideas behind a solar water pump system.
Hybrid System Basics
When wind belongs next to solar, and how the two sources share one battery bank across the seasons.
Off-Grid Application Notes
Notes on running fridges, air conditioners and site appliances on solar systems away from a steady grid.
Prefer checklists to articles? The guides section collects the working documents: the street lighting planning guide, the water pumping planning guide and the off-grid appliances planning guide are the three most used starting points.