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Measuring Amps to Save Energy

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Summary: Monitor the amount of amps you're using in your home. Learn about saving energy in your home with natural or solar power in this free video.

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Peter Bonenberger has always loved nature and believed that it is important. He and his wife founded a non-profit organization called the Bear Springs Blossom Nature Conservation. They...read more

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"So what we want is that we have a higher amount of volts coming down there from our solar or from our wind and going in there with 28 and then filling up the batteries. And the batteries can be let?s look what happens in the moment. So in the moment 17amps are coming down from our solar. 17 amps means that Amperes, that's a unit where you measure the power, and we know that it's 28 to 30 volts, so in this way we can say 30 volts multiplied with 17 so in the moment we have 3 times 17. That's about 510 Watts coming down there from the roof, charging these batteries. And then this power stays in the batteries."

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