Product Description
This book is a simple and entertaining introduction to Solar Electric, a must for everybody who is interested in the photovoltaic process or who plans to live in a solar home. It is also a statement for clean energy and for an environmentally healthy lifestyle. The reader will be introduced to the basic electrical terms and the components of a solar system. Practical tips, including names and numbers, will give the reader some idea about reliable products and manufa… More >>
The Easy Guide to Solar Electric
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#1 by Neil Milani on July 1, 2010 - 10:44 pm
I’m a technically-oriented, DIY person and I was looking for a solar electric book to help me with my small-scale, residential installation. I already have most of the background on photovoltaic systems and needed more of a “Here’s-how-you-do-it” book. Although amusing and easily read, I found this book useful for someone who is starting to think about solar power and needs a light hand to make them feel more at ease about what a system will and will not do. This is not a book for someone needing a DIY guide or a “How-to” manual. It’s not a bad book – just not useful for my needs.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anna Flowers, author on July 1, 2010 - 11:55 pm
I am a builder and owner of the Natural House. I reviewed Mr. Piepers book and found it an excellent introduction for entry level solar customers. My electrician says: “finally a book not clutterd with useless and too detailed information”. Personally I like the humor in this book and give the book as a present to every home owner I build a house for. Thank you Mr. Pieper for the excellent work!
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by blbkwrm on July 2, 2010 - 1:03 am
This book is silly and that is what helps me past the confusion of amps and watts and volts and cables. This is my most recent education in electrical engineering since fifth grade (and fixing some lamps and switches) and I am so glad I got this book and the installation manual.
Want to avoid mistakes. Some people may not like silly stories and humorous nonfiction. But for some of us, the humor both is illustrative, gives time to digest the technical ideas.
Great beginning book, does not scare me away from solar electric and that’s exactly what I hoped for.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Richard L. Kuhns on July 2, 2010 - 2:39 am
good book for understanding specifying wiring, inverters, batteries, etc., but limited in regards to information about solar cells themselves–only about 2 pages out of 200 plus one page listing addresses and phone #’s of solar distributors.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by Sonja Baumann on July 2, 2010 - 4:30 am
I red this book in Germany where I live, and, even though some aspects of this book are based on conditions in the USA, I highly recommend this book to everybody on this planet. One can tell the author’s love of the subject and his skill to write just from the heart on a very technical subject. The stories and jokes in the book helped me to understand the subject and, even if I could not follow some technical detail, the point he tried to make still came across. I now know more about the subject of solar energy and – what is equally important – I look at the world and its resources with a different eye. This is truely and “Easy Guide”. Keep cracking Adi,
thanks for this wonderful book.
Sonja Baumann, Berlin Germany
Rating: 5 / 5