Boston solar power
solar and/or wind power for plant lights in Boston?
I have a lot of plants in one room of my apartment, and I want to get some more. I have 17 full-spectrum lightbulbs that equal 40 or 60 watt light of typical bulbs while using 13 or 17 watts of power (they have the spiral shape, I can’t think of the name). I would like to replace these lamps with a string of 25. Is there any way to get a solar or wind generator that would charge a battery to run these lights 12-14 hours per day? I am on a hill, so there is plenty of sun in summer, and a good amount of wind year-round.
Thanks!
So you want 425 watts. Wind generators you may need permission of your zoning board or other local government.
Neither wind nor sun will be present 24 hours a day, so you need a lot of batteries and expensive electronics to control the charge into the batteries.
You can get CFL lights that run from 12 VDC instead of 120 VAC to save you the step and expense of an inverter to generate the 120VAC.
Depending on how dependable you need this, your location, and the number of hours of sun you get, you will probably need somewhere in the 1000-2000 watt region for the solar array.
The reference has one complete package for US$5000, I’m sure you can find lots more via google.
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