Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy)

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy). Here I discuss off grid batteries and PV systems in some detail. How flooded lead acid batteries work is explained. Also, battery bank connection options and their use is discussed. I go over why loads may be more convenient. Lastly. I discuss advantages of rooftop and ground based PV installations. https://www.youtube.com/hbcsolarpvtechbyron

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For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority. Hector Vladimir 2025©

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy)

https://www.youtube.com/hbcsolarpvtechbyron

https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552559207892

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ

Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir

Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/

For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Hector Vladimir 2025©

LOTG3-02 Electricity self sustainability

Electricity & Electronics - Complete course. Chapter 4 - Energy

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https://www.g-wonlinetextbooks.com/cdn-1487945020009/electricity-electronics-2009/

Electricity & Electronics, 10th Edition

Authors: Howard H. Gerrish, William E. Dugger Jr. and Richard M. Roberts

Electricity & Electronics presents solid, up-to-date information on the fundamentals of electricity and electronics. The dual approach of this text teaches principles and theory accompanied by hands-on learning. Text content provides a thorough grounding in electrical principles, circuitry, and components. Additional topics include electronic communication and data systems, such as radio, television, and computers. A full chapter in this edition is devoted to microcontrollers.

Narrated - edited by Hector Vladimir 2018-2025©

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Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy)

https://www.youtube.com/hbcsolarpvtechbyron

https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552559207892

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ

Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir

Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/

For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Hector Vladimir 2025©

Living Off the Grid in the City. Here I discuss methods, options, and some requirements; to have, or build, a home off the grid and have it be self-sustained. Most homes are on “life support”, depending on an array of “connected” services such as for water, fuel, energy, sewage. But, here I argue, how this does not have to be the case. It is possible to have your home, your most significant and biggest investment, be self sustained. This means that your home does not have to be connected to utility water, energy, and sewage. You may extract and collect water and energy from natural sources, like ground water, rain and the sun. You may also grow food within your home, yard or a green house. A home may be constructed with some availabe resources. If you have the time, stregth and freedom to do so, building a home from the ground up is probably the best option for you to use your areas resources more efficiently. For example, if you live in a windy and rainy area, harnessing the wind and rain may be build into your home. Or if you live in a sunny dry area, harnessing the sunlight for energy, light, and food growing; may be built into your home.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy)

https://www.youtube.com/hbcsolarpvtechbyron

https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552559207892

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ

Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir

Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/

For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Hector Vladimir 2025©

2015 audio book on the reasons to colonize space by building orbiting habitats near earth.

By Hector Vladimir 2015, 2022

Electricity & Electronics - Complete Course https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc54c0KickL3saW38wORiLXQhttps://www.g-wonlinetextbooks.com/cdn-1487945020009/electricity-electronics-2009/Electricity & Electronics, 10th EditionAuthors: Howard H. Gerrish, William E. Dugger Jr. and Richard M. RobertsElectricity & Electronics presents solid, up-to-date information on the fundamentals of electricity and electronics. The dual approach of this text teaches principles and theory accompanied by hands-on learning. Text content provides a thorough grounding in electrical principles, circuitry, and components. Additional topics include electronic communication and data systems, such as radio, television, and computers. A full chapter in this edition is devoted to microcontrollers.Narrated - edited by Hector Vladimir 2018-2025©https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc6nd-_C6bkiKnMxLBg7DfgKhttp://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtechhttps://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByronPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimirSubstack: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/

On this last episode of this series, I discuss the possible human factors on an interstellar voyage, and how they may affect the mission. I also discuss just a few of the possibilities of humanity among the stars. By Hector Vladimir 2025©

Challenges with Interstellar Travel – Giga-power sources, automation, and space medicine. In this episode, as a layman I explore a few still-valid and major hurdles that prevent us from moving forward with plans to travel to other star systems. Those of inadequate power sources, weak and far-behind automated or highly-autonomous systems, and our lack of ultra-advanced space medicine systems. An effective energy source, for interstellar-scale ship construction and to actually power the ship, still evades us. We hardly can provide energy for all of us here on earth, let alone our ability to balloon our energy production and take that energy to outer space. Our automated systems may be amazing to us laypeople. But a deeper look at them render them as rare, incapable of much, and extremely fragile and unreliable. Our computers are error prone, and human intervention is needed for the most rare and advanced systems in a few places on earth. So, the widespread availability of these system and the robust reliability, necessary for an interstellar program, seems to be far far away. Lastly, space medicine, although we laypeople see it as advanced, in reality is not that different from what we see here on earth. In reality, I believe it is much less advanced that earth based medicine. For example, he can hardly perform simple surgery in space, let alone think that we can replace organs there. And, human birth, which must be a non-issue for long duration space flight, has been little talked about in the context of space travel. Let alone hoping to carry human births in space any time soon. In short, these 3 major areas present more than daunting challenges to crewed interstellar travel, these and other hurdles utterly prevent it.Hazards of Space TravelChannel https://www.youtube.com/@sparkyae1Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5foyq8ccjATrgVnt3Gy9KDChannel https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtechChannel https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtechbyronHector Vladimir 2025©