https://www.brightonhoney.com Raw natural local honey Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:46:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.brightonhoney.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-brighton-honey-favicon-32x32.png https://www.brightonhoney.com 32 32 175839486 https://www.brightonhoney.com/home-solar-monitoring-system-main-roof/ https://www.brightonhoney.com/home-solar-monitoring-system-main-roof/#respond Tue, 07 Mar 2023 22:26:24 +0000 https://www.brightonhoney.com/?p=101934 I finally got around to adapting the existing scripts to crunch the data from the house. Charting solar performance data is a great way to keep track of the output from your home’s solar array. By plotting relevant metrics such as total energy output, peak hour production, and more, you’ll be able to gain an […]]]> https://www.brightonhoney.com/home-solar-monitoring-system-main-roof/feed/ 0 101934 https://www.brightonhoney.com/installing-solar-on-home/ https://www.brightonhoney.com/installing-solar-on-home/#respond Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:32:47 +0000 https://www.brightonhoney.com/?p=101106 Solar Roof Install: A Personal Goal This year I fulfilled a personal project of installing solar on my house.  A few years back I installed solar on my garage. The house project started with replacing the roof. The roof had 3 layers of shingles one of which was the original cedar shakes. The south side […]]]> https://www.brightonhoney.com/installing-solar-on-home/feed/ 0 101106 https://www.brightonhoney.com/offsetting-unavoidable-co2-emissions-low-emissions-vehicle/ https://www.brightonhoney.com/offsetting-unavoidable-co2-emissions-low-emissions-vehicle/#respond Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:34:54 +0000 http://www.brightonhoney.com/?p=1696 The Chevy Volt PHEV is the ultimate melding of the technologies and perhaps currently the most practical and immediate way to offset our unavoidable CO2 emissions]]> https://www.brightonhoney.com/offsetting-unavoidable-co2-emissions-low-emissions-vehicle/feed/ 0 1696 https://www.brightonhoney.com/monitoring-solar-output-via-mrtg/ https://www.brightonhoney.com/monitoring-solar-output-via-mrtg/#respond Fri, 15 Sep 2017 20:54:01 +0000 http://www.brightonhoney.com/?p=1593 I was successful in porting the solar inverter data to MRTG! This is accomplished with a program called RRDTool developed by the author of the original MRTG. A script was needed to import the raw solar data into a database using a handy language called python. RRDTool uses a database called Round Robin Database thus the […]]]> https://www.brightonhoney.com/monitoring-solar-output-via-mrtg/feed/ 0 1593 https://www.brightonhoney.com/solar/ https://www.brightonhoney.com/solar/#comments Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:17:00 +0000 http://www.brightonhoney.com/?p=1509 It was chilly overcast spring morning when we started.  I wanted to get them installed as early in spring as possible to get a full season of sunlight.  The next day the sky had cleared and the sun was shining bright on a crisp blue background.  I threw the switch on the inverter and powered up the system and the capacitors started to hum.]]> https://www.brightonhoney.com/solar/feed/ 1 1509