date-created: '2006-10-10'
date-updated: '2025-09-18'
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    name: Appropedia
    email: admin@appropedia.org
title: 'Hexayurt project/Solar'
description: 'Substitute for national grid or heavyweight solar with:  One 80 watt panel connected to a 15 minute AA battery charger (e.g. the new generation Rayovacs) These items will be connected into a "power pillar" - a walk-up charging station where people come with their empty NIMH batteries, drop them into the charger, wait 15 minutes, then take them home. Assuming a 10 hour charging day, that services 40 sets of batteries. Each AA NiMH battery has a capacity of approx 2000 mAh at 1.25V, equivalent to 2.5 VAh. If charger efficiencies are 25% (my guess) then we need about 10 Wh to charge each battery.'
keywords: 'battery, efficiency, electricity, energy, hexayurt, household, load, module, Solar, renewable energy, solar panel, battery charger, power pillar'
project-link: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Solar'
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version: 50
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documentation-home: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Solar'
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