{"id":37,"date":"2008-09-21T21:47:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T04:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-01-01T02:39:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T09:39:01","slug":"dc-for-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"DC for your home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>looking at several DC\/AC converters etc i think one should generate DC power with solar panels, store it as DC, and use it as DC<\/p>\n<p>every half-way decent and affordable converter comes only with some 80-90% efficiency, and the waste is always heat! that&#8217;s ok in winter, but realistically: who will heat their water or room with that heat?<\/p>\n<p>one could easily have their A\/C rebuilt using a DC motor, use DC for lighting with LED lights, install a DC outlet for the computers etc &#8211; apparently a regular PC powersupply can work with a (higher voltage) DC input as they are right now, even without any changes! (got to verify that though)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>looking at several DC\/AC converters etc i think one should generate DC power with solar panels, store it as DC, and use it as DC every half-way decent and affordable converter comes only with some 80-90% efficiency, and the waste is always heat! that&#8217;s ok in winter, but realistically: who will heat their water or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-cng-and-electrons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}