|> | No, I mean that it's best to build a known practical |> | design, before attempting to create a modification |> | to that design. The point being that, done properly, |> | it will work/succeed. It is only your modification |> | where there is a need to "see if that succeeds or |> | fails". (See below) |> | |> | I'm beginning to get the impression that you actually |> | have no intention of building a viable system, and that |> | this is a purely "intellectual" endeavor, for your personal |> | entertainment. |>
|> The impression is off. I intend to be a viable system. But I do intent |> to |> jump directly to a different design (which has already changed as a result |> of info others have posted in this thread). |>
| | Well, good luck with that, and since you have no more | to provide to a discussion of the subject, farewell.
I'm here trying to get information. Some people have provided some. Maybe they will provide more.
| If you ever have any actual practical information to | impart someday, let us know. If you should ever be | willing to disclose this "different design", there might be | something to discuss.
Sure thing. If I come up with something better, I will. In the mean time I will continue my research and study, which does include talking about it.
| For those of us in alt.energy.homepower we don't construct | systems that employ battery banks strictly for the learning | experience. (In fact I suspect most of us would rather avoid
Neither do I. That's why I'm doing the learning ahead of the design and construction.
| as many "learning experiences" as possible, as they are often | painful.) It seems that you want to design "something different" | based on our experience, but aren't interested in acquiring any | of your own. You expect us to provide answers to suit your | needs, but we just like to examine subjects of interest to us.
So are you saying I should skip the learning and construct every possible design I come up with?
| By "learn as much of the science as I can", you mean seeing | what NewsGroup posters have to say about a subject? To be
Sure. Maybe they know about actual science, or know where they have seen it before.
| fare, I should inform you that we seldom cover as much "of | the science" as you expect. Some things get left out of the | discussions. But if you actually build something that works, | you would have to have learned a few more things, related to | the issue, than what might appear in a dozen threads.
I'll learn as much as I can before I build anything.
| Then there is the fact that actual projects get a lot of support | from interested posters ("z" and his pelton wheel micro-hydro | project for example.) If or when, you actually are trying to design | or construct something real, try posting again. (Hopefully not too | many will remember this run around.)
I'll continue to post when _either_ I have some useful information to offer, or have a question soliciting useful information. For the latter, I have learned that most posts in response fall into these categories:
- people providing actual useful information
- people intending well, but provide useless information
- people providing useless information but really don't care
- detractors that just like to post drivel
- responses to any of the above