Home EmPOWERment: Installing a small-scale Solar Panel for Independent Energy

Friday, July 29 - Sunday, July 31
Home EmPOWERment: Installing a small-scale Solar Panel for Independent Energy
Cost: $250 (early registration by June 30 $200)
Held at the Ujima Center for Urban Persistence in Portland, OR
To register, contact [email]theujimacenter@gmail.com[/email]
http://www.ujimacenter.com/component/content/article/36/59-solar-workshop.html

Learn how to create and install a small DC, non-grid-tied photovoltaic system, including theory, siting/evaluation, wiring, and installation.  Instructor: Tom Ward
For more information on Tom Ward, visit http://www.siskiyoupermaculture.com

$200? Yikes!!

I have half of that into the system i use to run ham radio equipment out on camping and backpacking trips. Granted that's mixing and matching parts to build the system but sheish... its little more then connect part A to part B and so on...