Electric power in the backwoods is not come the combiner box and, “C” would Good deep cycle storage batteries always as “clean” as that required to run become the regulator. Wind or hydro are available in many types and sizes. a personal computer. Some sort of power regulation Is advisable. Leighton sources can be similarly configured. Inverters are available from many Demetrius of Circle D Farm Solar In The voltage regulation and condi- manufacturers. The better ones have a Florida sent us the following as a remedy. tioning capacity of the average per- modified or a pure sine wave, and For more Info contact him at Star Rt. 1, sonal computer’s internal power sup- excellent voltage regulation at all out- Box 70, Crescent City, FL 32112.—Editor ply (normally an AC to DC trans- put levels. You must choose an invert- former and cooling fan) is minimal. er with good voltage regulation and Abnormal behavior in the main power waveform at all output ranges and By Leighton Demetrius source is apt to pass through and play surges.These power conditioning sys- A lthough this “Computer Power Conditioning System” was developed havoc with the PC, where system instructions are controlled by varying tems can be built in any size, from a station for a single PC on up to a sys- internal voltage levels. tem such as we have here, which has for use by our customers in the Third Those of you for whom irregular 40 kilowatts of battery storage and World, it can be used by many of the utility power is the problem, the bat- 4500 watts of DC to AC inverter readers of “Backwoods Home tery charger acts as the primary buffer, capacity. Our main power source is a Magazine” in its present form. It can putting out an even 12 VDC to the combination of photovoltaics, utility also be used with -many other power batteries. The important items in the and propane generator, and we have sources. U.P.S. for all users are the Storage enjoyed uninterrupted energy for the For the photovoltaic system, “A” Batteries and Inverter. past five years. ∆ would be the modules, “B” would be-