Posted on 11/03/2017 at 12:00 by Seth Hansen
It's important to regularly stop, take a breath and look back.
To reflect on the past.
The Horizon Blog is no different.
We understand you're busy and often don’t have time to read our posts.
This week we turn back the clock and look at some of our most important posts from the past few months.
Solar power can be quite challenging to understand.
Identifying the proper battery voltage, amperage, capacity and making sure your system is operating at peak efficiency can be a task.
But it doesn’t have to be.
Solar should be as easy as laying your panel out in the sun and forgetting about it.
You shouldn’t have to be off-grid for weeks at a time, climbing mountains and blazing new trails to enjoy and use renewable energy.
Solar should be intuitive and simple.
It should be a power source that everyone can harness.
With these thoughts in mind, we developed the LightSaver line of portable solar chargers.
What does it mean to truly own something?
To control the ins and outs of a process until you are almost one with it?
To ensure things fit, perform and make sense?
To understand something deeper and more meaningfully than anyone else in the world?
We are passionate about our products and especially our process.
Combining product design, engineering and manufacturing under the same roof in the United States provides many advantages, including speed to market, quality control and service after the sale.
This is what we call owning the process.
Where do you turn when looking for a way to keep your cell phone charged while out and about?
Do you frantically hunt for the nearest outlet carrying your charging cable everywhere?
Do you turn off all unnecessary functions making a once intelligent phone rather dull?
While these solutions might work, an easier, less painful means of charging on the go has gained traction, battery banks.
Nobody likes a dead battery.
You want power available to charge your device.
To keep your fleet of vehicles online.
To stay safe during inclement weather.
To get things done.
Often you might think about inexpensive batteries versus their elite counterpart, but often we neglect the importance of a charge controller in the solar collection process.
If paired with an inappropriate or inefficient controller, you can throw away an enormous amount of potential energy.
To discern the best controller for your situation, let's talk through the options, their advantages and disadvantages so you can make the most informed decision.
When you buy something, hastily tear into the packaging, and scramble for the nearest pair of industrial-strength scissors to exhume your product from its plastic enclosure, do you ever contemplate the level of care, handling and testing that went into that product?
If you are like me, you don't let these seemingly arbitrary thoughts weigh on your anxious mind too heavily.
You want to use the product!
Peeking behind the curtain and seeing what goes on behind the scenes isn't captivating for many, but each step in a product's manufacturing process plays a vital role in determining the quality of the finished good.
At PowerFilm, we take great pride in our products, and quality is of the utmost importance.
To ensure quality at a reasonable price, periodic tests are performed throughout the manufacturing process.
Today we focus on the testing procedure of the material built into a foldable product, but this testing process is similar for all products.
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Categories: Solar Education