User talk:Madtom1999

Hello All. I did 10 years microchip design many moons ago and have been a programmer since and spend a lot of time in the FLOSS world.

I've been trying to find reasonably priced Grid Connected Inverters for a long while and have come to the following conclusions: 1) The market is not going to make a reasonably priced one. 2) Theres nothing clever in one - so no intellectual hinderances to designing one. 3) Open design could be a pretty good way of getting micropower in every house in the world.

I believe that a modular design is best: 1) An small pc controller is the heart of the design. 2) A bus bar box so that multiple.. 3) 0.5KVA power units can be dropped in (transformer and driver fets(?) in a block) 4) a battery charging setup can be added and governed by 1 while it works out the meaning of the universe. 5) we've got all the bits for a UPS here as well so lets think about that too.

I think the controller should be in the £100/$200 region and the power units in the £50/$100 region. Fitting is going to be the expensive bit!

The small PC contoller should have its own power control so the whole thing can be used with almost any DC source (12/24/48...) and the power units can be 220 or 110v 50 or 60hz so we can zap the whole world. The idea is to make something that can be configured anywhere in the world and bring micropower to every house.

Reduction in cost of GCInverters would allow inventors to investigate new sources/designs of micropower and maybe make them pay in a year or two so you'd have to be pretty bloody minded not to fit one to your house.

Anyone knwo where I can get a copy of Engineering Recommendation G.83/1-1 (2008) without going bankrupt?