Renewable Energy Experimenter Kits

Hobbyists, Programmers and Experimenters - This page is for you!

Now you can experiment with all the solar, wind and hydrogen products displayed on the other pages while delving into the utmost inner workings of these renewable energy technologies with experiments that you build, program and test with either a Parallax BS2 or PicAxe 28X2 microcontroller and your computer. 

Click here for Parallax Kit Details                                                     Click here for Picaxe Kit Details

Check out the featured "Experiments with Alternative Energy" articles from Nuts and Volts magazine below. 

  Part 1 - Solar Energy     

  Part 2 - External Conditions That Affect Solar Panels

  Part 3 - Build a Solar Powered Battery Charger    

  Part 4 - Build a Double Wide Sun Tracker

  Part 5 - Experimenting with the Double Wide Sun Tracker

  Part 6 - Build a Three-Phase AC Wind Turbine 

  Part 7 - Experimenting with the Whirlybird Wind Turbine

  Part 8 - Introducing the WindPitch Wind Turbine

  Part 9 - Experimenting with the WindPitch Wind Turbine

  Part 10 - Fuel Cell Basics

  Part 11 - Fuel Cell Polarization States and Efficiencies

  Part 12- Build the Telematics Car

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