Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Building a 300 / 200 watt dump load for a Solar Charge Controller


Some viewers wanted more information on the dump load that I use with the Solar Charge Controller described HERE. For a 12v 7 Ah battery I use a 12 volt car brake light bulb.  For  the 100 Ah battery I use the dump described by the backshed.com available HERE.   It works great and is easy to construct from scrap lying around.


Source:  Homegrown Power / thebackshed.com

I cannot access the Aasvoëlkop Repeater (145.625 Mhz) from Heuningklip. What is the reason?

On Saturday the 27 December 2025,  Jakobus ZS1JDJ visited his father in law OM  Jan ZS1CBS at Heuningklip near Herbertsdale.  He carried out...