| | |  | Solar Power | Home » » The Easy Guide to Solar Electric, second edition | | | | | | | Description: | | This book is a simple and entertaining introduction to solar electric. It is also a statement for clean energy and for environmentally healthy lifestyle. The reader will be introduced - through humor and analogies - to the basic electrical terms and the components of a solar system. Practical tips, including names and numbers, will give the reader some idea about reliable products and manufacturers. This expanded second edition is complete with index, glossary and charts. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Pieper Adi | | Paperback:
| 234 pages | | Publisher:
| ADI Solar | | Publication Date:
| January 30, 2001 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 096718911X | | Package Length:
| 8.24 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.26 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.61 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.44 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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72 of 75 found the following review helpful:
 Non-technical, entry-level solar electric book for beginnersAug 24, 2000
By Neil Milani
I'm a technically-oriented, DIY person and I was looking for a solar electric book to help me with my small-scale, residential installation. I already have most of the background on photovoltaic systems and needed more of a "Here's-how-you-do-it" book. Although amusing and easily read, I found this book useful for someone who is starting to think about solar power and needs a light hand to make them feel more at ease about what a system will and will not do. This is not a book for someone needing a DIY guide or a "How-to" manual. It's not a bad book - just not useful for my needs.
23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent IntroducionDec 13, 1999
I am a builder and owner of the Natural House. I reviewed Mr. Piepers book and found it an excellent introduction for entry level solar customers. My electrician says: "finally a book not clutterd with useless and too detailed information". Personally I like the humor in this book and give the book as a present to every home owner I build a house for. Thank you Mr. Pieper for the excellent work!
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Good book for novices - like me!Jun 08, 2005
By blbkwrm
This book is silly and that is what helps me past the confusion of amps and watts and volts and cables. This is my most recent education in electrical engineering since fifth grade (and fixing some lamps and switches) and I am so glad I got this book and the installation manual.
Want to avoid mistakes. Some people may not like silly stories and humorous nonfiction. But for some of us, the humor both is illustrative, gives time to digest the technical ideas.
Great beginning book, does not scare me away from solar electric and that's exactly what I hoped for.
12 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 good book for interface solar cells with auxilary equipMar 19, 2000
By Richard L. Kuhns
good book for understanding specifying wiring, inverters, batteries, etc., but limited in regards to information about solar cells themselves--only about 2 pages out of 200 plus one page listing addresses and phone #'s of solar distributors.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Nonfiction from the HeartMar 23, 2002
By Sonja Baumann
I red this book in Germany where I live, and, even though some aspects of this book are based on conditions in the USA, I highly recommend this book to everybody on this planet. One can tell the author's love of the subject and his skill to write just from the heart on a very technical subject. The stories and jokes in the book helped me to understand the subject and, even if I could not follow some technical detail, the point he tried to make still came across. I now know more about the subject of solar energy and - what is equally important - I look at the world and its resources with a different eye. This is truely and "Easy Guide". Keep cracking Adi,
thanks for this wonderful book.
Sonja Baumann, Berlin Germany
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