Title Index to Home Power Issues #1 through #30 Abbreviations: (TtW!) = Things that Work! product test; Wp = peak watts output from PV panels; L-A = lead-acid battery Call Home Power at 916-475-3179 for availability of back issues. Issues 1 through 3 and 5 through 9 are sold out. On the right side of each entry are two numbers, for example, 22-81, referring to issue 22, page 81. TITLE AUTHOR ISSUE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 120 VAC Lighting & Invertors Perez, Richard 03-41 12v Lead Acid Battery Charging Chart 07-25 12vdc Car Light Bulbs (TtW) HP Crew 04-28 12vdc Fluorescent Light (TtW) HP Crew 04-27 24v Lead Acid Battery Charging Chart 07-26 A Low Cost Single Axis Manually Operated PV Tracker McCormick, Bob 13-20 A Pedal/PV System Haaren & Abbott 12-13 A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Green, Brian 04-10 A Radiotelephone Saga (TtW) 12-36 A regulator for All Sources & Seasons Glaser, Dale 07-19 A Special Pair of Robins Statnekov, Daniel 12-04 A Stand-Alone PV System Hoffman, Molly 07-05 A Treasure Not Rare Statnekov, Daniel 10-04 A Water Pumping System Using a LCB Configuration(TtW) Waldsmith, Gary 12-19 A Wind/PV System Millard, John 10-17 A Wind\PV System Rassman, Linnea 11-09 A Working MicroHydro at Journey's End Forest Ranch Rakfeldt, Harry 06-05 A Working PV/Engine AE System Perez, Richard 02-07 A Working Wind/PV System Ames, Gerald 04-05 Acid vs. Alkaline: the Electrochemical Cell Shootout Perez & Greacon 17-34 Alternate Energy Demo Kit Traugot, Michael 18-41 Alternate Energy Fair Held at The Farm Traugot, Michael 18-40 Alternative Power on a Cruising Sailboat Oldfield, William 18-16 Amateur Radio for Home Power People Dankoff & Green 06-34 An Affordable Radiotelephone System Tidmore, Chris 12-32 Another Sewing Machine Fix Walk, Larisa 18-48 Are Photovoltaics Right for Me? Perez, Richard 01-11 Ariesun- A Solar Powered House Perez, Richard 11-32 Back Country Communications Green, Brian 02-16 Backwood's Battery Charge Controller (TtW) Perez, Richard 07-34 Backwoods Solar's PV Rack (TtW) 11-41 Basic Principles of Solar Architecture 11-34 Basics of Electricity, Part 2 Measures, RL 04-33 Batteries Can Be Dangerous Wiles, John 17-37 Battery State of Charge Charts HP Staff 09-25 Big Uns & Lil Uns Perez, Richard 13-05 Book Shelf #13 13-40 Bridges System Bridges, Orin 12-05 Build a Multi-Purpose Voltage Controlled Switch Yelvington, Alan 16-50 Build an Accurate Battery Voltmeter Mason, Alex 02-31 Build Your Own 12vdc Engine Generator Perez, Richard 02-23 Build Your Own Battery & Inverter Cables Perez, Richard 07-36 Build Your Own Battery State of Charge Meter Perez, Richard 10-27 Build Your Own Electronic Ignition Perez, Richard 07-30 Build Your Own Solar Powered Vehicle NOW Jergenson, Phil 14-27 Building Your Own Wind Generator Hicks, Steve 12-29 Business Does Good 17-62 Careers in Photovoltaics Start with Training CMC Staff 03-20 CB for You & Me Green, Brian 03-36 Charging Batteries Can Be a Gas! Ames, Gerald 06-31 Choosing Components for a Hybrid PV/GEN System Coleman, Sam 04-44 Compact AC Flourescent Lights Fetterman, Jerry 16-27 Controlling Hydroelectric Systems Schultze, Bob-O 13-35 Converting a Sewing Machine to Hand Power Summers, Julie 17-59 Cookin' with Sunshine Eaton, Ed 07-15 Cost Comparisons between Nicad & Lead Acid Batteries Perez, Richard 16-24 CQ Home Power Hams Fisher, Steve 15-45 Creations Endless Birth Statnekov, Daniel 14-05 Cruising Equipment's Digital Amp-hour Meter (TtW) Perez & Mason 16-40 Despite Our Tattered Knees Statnekov, Daniel 13-04 Drag a Mouse (TtW) Perez, Karen 06-37 EchoLite PV Mounting Brackets (TtW) 12-31 ED-160 Reconditioned Ni-Cad Storage Battery (TtW) Perez, Richard 13-17 Efficient Lighting for the Independently Powered Home Dankoff, Windy 09-20 Electric Vehicle Frames Jergenson, Phil 15-42 Emergency MicroPower Systems Perez, Richard 14-09 Energy Fair Update Perez, Richard 13-24 Energy Fair Updates 15-38 Energy Fairs Update 17-42 Energy Fairs Update 14-21 Energy Fairs Update 16-36 Energy Saving 120vac Outlet Cover (TtW) 10-33 Engine Driven Generators for Home Power Trautman, Alan 01-19 Expanded Scale Voltmeters Damm, Jeff 12-34 Experiences with NICAD Cells from Pacific West Supply Patterson, George 15-23 Fresh Water from the Sea McCracken, Horace 10-29 From Us to You #02 HP staff 02-04 From Us to You #03 HP staff 03-04 From Us to You #06 HP staff 06-04 From Us to You #07 HP staff 07-04 From Us to You #09 HP staff 09-04 From Us to You #10 HP staff 10-04 From Us to You #11 HP staff 11-04 From Us to You #12 HP staff 12-04 From Us to You #13 HP staff 13-04 From Us to You #14 HP staff 14-05 From Us to You #15 HP staff 15-04 From Us to You #16 HP staff 16-06 From Us to You #17 HP staff 17-05 From Us to You #18 HP staff 18-04 Fuel: Its Transportation, Handling... Trautman, Alan 04-18 Getting Ready for Winter Dankoff, Windy 14-07 Glossary of Home Power Terms Hening, Scott 18-52 God's Favorite Place On Earth Perez, Richard 10-05 Good Books #17 17-51 Good Books #18 18-49 Grounding & Lightning Protection Dankoff, Windy 06-16 Hands-On Solar Power CMC Staff 17-19 Heliotrope CC-20 Charge Controller (TtW) Perez, Richard 13-36 Heliotrope HC-75 Battery Charger (TtW) Perez & Flett 17-38 Heliotrope invertor( TtW) Perez & Pryor 03-29 Hidden Energy Costs Perez, Richard 16-21 Home Power #6 is Dedicated to Dave Winslett 06-45 Home Power Generates People Power Ivanovich, Michael 13-12 Home Power Powers Home Power Perez, Richard 16-07 Home Power Tests the Powerstar Inverter (TtW) Coleman & Perez 15-36 Home Power's Renewable Energy Survey HP Staff 10-25 Homebrew: Active Solar Tracking System Damm, Jeff 17-48 Homebrew: Shunt Regulator Greacen, Chris 18-46 Homemade Low Voltage DC Refrigeration McCormick, Bob 16-48 House Wiring, Standards & the Electrical Code Dankoff & Mooney 07-27 How to Mount and Wire PV Modules Perez, Richard 02-11 How to Solder- the Basics Perez, Richard 18-35 How to Wire an Inverter to a 120v Panel Perez, Richard 11-23 Hydro Systems Using LCBs Cunningham, Paul 17-39 Hydrocaps (TtW) staff 11-37 Independent Power & Light Palumbo, David 17-06 Induction Generation: an Exciting Possibility Cunningham, Paul 03-17 Intelligent Use of 120vac in Inverter Powered Home Fetterman, Jerry 14-11 Internal Resistance in Lead Acid Batteries Hester, Robert 03-34 It's Gotta be Spring Green, Brian 11-25 Kyocera Mega-System 16-35 Lead Acid Batteries for Home Power Storage Perez, Richard 09-27 Lead-Acid Batteries Perez, Richard 01-25 Letters to HP #02 02-37 Letters to HP #03 03-43 Letters to HP #04 04-37 Letters to HP #06 06-39 Letters to HP #07 07-38 Letters to HP #09 09-39 Letters to HP #10 10-36 Letters to HP #11 11-44 Letters to HP #12 12-38 Letters to HP #13 13-44 Letters to HP #14 14-40 Letters to HP #15 15-48 Letters to HP #16 16-55 Letters to HP #17 17-55 Letters to HP #18 18-57 Like Lemmings to the Sea Mooney, Mike 09-34 Lil Otto Perez, Richard 13-15 Linear Current Boosters Elliott, Larry 06-12 Low Voltage Wiring Techniques Mason, Alex 02-33 MicroPowered Appliances for Emergency Use Perez & Coleman 16-30 Mini Hybrid Power System Gaydos, RD & Linda 11-05 Mowing Fields is in my Past Statnekov, Daniel 11-04 Muddy Roads #11 Perez, Karen 11-43 Muddy Roads #12 Jarschke-Schultze 12-37 Muddy Roads #13 Krute, Stan 13-39 Muddy Roads #14 Legg & Schultze 14-38 Muddy Roads #15 Fallick, Donald 15-45 Muddy Roads #16 Jarschke-Schultze 16-53 Muddy Roads #17 Flett, Laura 17-53 Murphy's Notebook Mooney, Michael 04-43 Nerd's Corner #14 Perez & Amelang 14-35 Nerd's Corner #15 Perez, Richard 15-41 Nerd's Corner #16 Seikosha SP-1000AP Printer 16-52 News from SERI's Science & Technology in Review Perez, Karen 13-31 Nickel-Cadmium Batteries Perez, Richard 04-14 Nickel-Cadmium Batteries Perez, Richard 12-16 Northern Sun Power LaChapelle & Hunt 17-13 Notes from the Ozone #18 Perez, Richard 18-61 Ohm's Law & Digital Multimeters Mason, Alex 16-46 Ohm's Law Measures, Richard 03-40 Passive Solar Hot Water Jarschke-Schultze 11-19 Pensol Portable Gas Soldering Iron (TtW) Coleman & Perez 16-39 People's Energy Fair Perez, Richard 12-27 Phantom Loads Perez, Richard 14-13 Photovoltaics and Our Future Dankoff, Windy 02-06 Photovoltaics: The Alternative to Life in a Greenhouse Starr, Gary 10-14 Pocket Plate Nicads in Home Power Service Perez, Richard 15-19 Power as a Commodity Crothers, Larry 01-35 Power Inverters Perez, Richard 01-22 PV/Hydro Systems & ... the Little Otto Hydroworks Perez, Richard 15-14 PV Powered Econosub Pump (TtW) Hill, Jonathan 13-22 PV that Meets the National Electric Code Wiles, John 16-31 Q&A #03 03-45 Q&A #04 04-41 Q&A #06 06-43 Q&A #07 07-43 Q&A #09 09-41 Q&A #10 10-40 Q&A #11 11-47 Q&A #12 12-42 Q&A #13 13-50 Quartz Halogen Lighting Skyrman, Wally 18-47 Radio Links Provide Phones Far from Telephone Lines Longnecker, Jim 07-32 Radiotelephone Perez, Richard 04-29 Recharging Batteries with a Gas Generator Dankoff, Windy 03-32 Redwood Alliance 12-22 Remote Area Power Systems in New Zealand MacKay, David 18-21 Report from Austin Texas D'Angelo, John 16-32 RETSIE: A Strange Visit to the Energy Dream Perez, Richard 06-18 Runaway Washing Machine Statnekov, Daniel 15-04 Saw an Oak Turn Red Today Statnekov, Daniel 07-45 Seeking our Own Level Cunningham, Paul 02-17 Select-A-Tenna (TtW) Coleman, Sam 18-28 Selecting System Voltage Dankoff, Windy 04-12 Selections from the "Spring" Section of Walden Thoreau, Henry D. 16-06 Shunts: Using Wire & a DMM to Measure Current Perez, Richard 06-35 Simple Designs for Effic. Low Cost & Reliable Systems Willey, Steve 12-10 Siting for NanoHydro - a Primer Schultze, Bob-O 15-17 Small Water Power Siting Cunningham, Paul 01-07 So How Many PV Cells do I Need in My Panels, Anyway Perez, Richard 03-09 So You Want to Build a Wind Generator Wiles, Wiles 17-28 Solar Box Cookers Greacen, Chris 12-14 Solar Box Cookers Kerr, Barbara 09-36 Solar Cars Come of Age Hazard, Nancy 18-07 Solar Pathfinder (TtW) Schultze,Pryor,Perez16-44 Solar Powered Water Pumping Dankoff & McCarney 11-15 Sovonics PV Panel & the Ovonics Battery (TtW) Coleman & Perez 15-33 Specifying PV Wiring Perez, Richard 18-31 Stay in the Sun poetry Statnekov, Daniel 09-04 Sunshine & Mountain Home Power Perez, Richard 09-05 Sustainable Energies Research Institute Krenzel, Art-Sylvia 11-21 SWRES Research 13-42 System Shorties #17 17-46 System Shorties #18 18-44 Teaching Kids about Batteries & Photovoltaics Hagerman, George 15-05 Teaching Kids to Build & Use a Solar Battery Charger Hagerman, Michael 16-14 The Fireside #2 Hargrove, D & G 03-27 The Fireside Hargrove, Don 02-27 The Home Built BTU Boss Hargrove, Don 04-21 The Hybrid-Configured Electric Vehicle Hackleman, Michael 09-13 The Integrated Energy System Dankoff, Windy 03-06 The Magic Sun Neulieb 04-35 The Old Windmill Statnekov, Daniel 06-45 The Power of Personal Resourcefulness Phillips, Wayne 03-13 The PV/Engine System that Produces Home Power Magazine Perez & Perez 07-09 The Shocking Story of Grounding Wiles, John 18-26 The Shocking Truth About Electric Cars Starr, Gary 18-11 The Solar Apprentice- A PV Powered Vehicle Dymond, Christopher 14-30 The State of the PV Industry Garrett, Lane 18-15 The Wizard Speaks #02 02-35 The Wizard Speaks #03 03-47 The Wizard Speaks #04 04-13 The Wizard Speaks #06 06-45 The Wizard Speaks #07 07-45 The Wizard Speaks #09 09-38 The Wizard Speaks #10 10-35 The Wizard Speaks #11 11-42 The Wizard Speaks #12 12-36 The Wizard Speaks #13 13-38 The Wizard Speaks #14 14-37 The Wizard Speaks #15 15-41 The Wizard Speaks #16 16-52 The Wizard Speaks #17 17-52 The Wizard Speaks #18 18-56 The Wizard's MicroPV System Perez, Richard 15-31 Things that STILL Work!: Home Power tests an Ancient PV Panel 10-31 Thomson & Howe Amp-hour Meter (TtW) 11-39 Three Terminal, Adjustable, Regulators Mooney, J. Michael 06-37 Timer Conversions Doty, Dave 16-49 Trace 1512 Inverter (TtW) Perez, Richard 02-29 Trace 2524 Inverter/Charger (TtW) Perez & Pryor 16-42 Using Kwh Meters on 120 Volt Systems Doty, Dave 17-50 Using PVs to Pump Deep Wells Perez, Richard 06-27 Water Supply ... Submersible Pumps on Inverter Power Dankoff, Windy 17-25 We Can Never Have Enough of Nature Thoreau, Henry 17-05 Where are We Going?... Mooney, Michael 04-43 Wincharger and Jacobs Hicks, Steve 11-13 Wind Generator Blade Balancing Sagrillo, Mick 14-17 Wind Power Siting Elliott, Larry 01-16 Windseeker II Wind-Electric Generator (TtW) Dankoff, Windy 14-15 Wire Sizing & Voltage Drop in Low Voltage Systems Davey & Dankoff 14-32 Wire Sizing and Voltage Drop in Low Voltage Systems Davey & Dankoff 13-32 Wiring for Reliability & Performance Wiles, John 14-36