[Stoves] Solar Cooking facilities for all rural households in India

Michael N Trevor mntrevor at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 11:47:16 CDT 2018


I suspect that unit for rural coastal India will recognize these issues and
in a few year get around them.
I need folks wagon not a Jaguar XKE


On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:45 AM, Michael N Trevor <mntrevor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Many common items have a failure rate of near 100 percent
> Toasters, micro waves, radios TV. We run 80/100 percent humidity 80
> degrees and salt spray/mist  24 /7.
> Even cars short circuit and burn up..
> I recognize the induction side is OK, it is the leds ights, push button
> controls and all that stuff that fail.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:18 AM, Andrew Heggie <aj.heggie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 at 10:24, Michael N Trevor <mntrevor at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > WANT TO KNOW A WHOLE LOT MORE.
>> > GOOGLED 12 v INDUCTION COOKTOPS
>> > SOME VERY NICE EXPENSIVE STUFF.
>> > BIGGEST THING LOTS OF FANCY ELECTRONICS THAT WILL NOT
>> > HOLD UP IN RURAL WARM COASTAL MARINE CONDITIONS
>>
>>
>> All the time the aggregated cost of the PV panels and battery storage
>> are so high I cannot see solar to electric induction being viable.
>> Currently  any battery storage I can buy is a couple of times more
>> expensive than buying from the grid in UK so it doesn't pay me but it
>> may pay me to heat water from excess PV electricity. Just as PV panels
>> have halved in price as production capacity has increased it looks
>> like LIon batteries are coming down by ~15%  as installed capacity
>> doubles, whether there is enough lithium  mined to sustain this is
>> another matter and there are other storage technologies.
>>
>> Michael what is the common failure mode of fancy electronics in your
>> environment?
>>
>> The circuits for induction heaters seem remarkably simple, a couple of
>> MOSFETS  in push pull oscillating at ~150kHz  and a simple control
>> circuit (the one I bought following Nikhil's promulgation is too
>> coarse on the control side) but I see no reason to store or distribute
>> even DC electricity at such a low voltage, 48V seems more sensible
>> and then the MOSFETS handle less current.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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