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             Solar, Wind, Hydrogen and Advanced Batteries             
            
  other services:      
Custom Electronic Product Prototyping
                (Since 1986)               
                                  
Microsec offers Green Energy Systems
for Industry and Home
View and Download Catalog
Catalog includes may items including
-charge controllers
-mounting hardware
-inverters
-solar panels
-grid tie systems
-home and cottage energy systems
Remarkable low prices on request.
Sample prices for solar panels shown below.


Visit our Energy Technology Store
Nickel Iron Batteries and Solar Panels
Charge Controllers, Mounting Hardware Etc.

 
To Purchase Please Email
isoutar@microsec.net

In Stock
Sharp 175 Watt Monocrystalline Solar Panel
sharp 175 watt solar panel
$649. each, quantity discounts for industrial projects.
also available are 235 watt panels.  This is a sample price

For all your energy needs please look at our catalog ...
...
then email us for prices on any items.


Environmentally friendly electric storage for solar powered homes.
Available May 2010 is the modern Nickel Iron cell.
Drop shipments come directly from the ChangHong Battery Company.

Nickel Iron Batteryset of 22 ni-fe batteries
We import the Ni-Fe batteries directly from the factory in China. We
can arrange for them to be drop shipped to your location from China.
Download Data Sheet
Download User Manual
Nickel Iron Battery Association Link

To Purchase Nickel Iron Batteries Please Visit ...
Our Energy Store
They contain no environmentally harmful products being made from
Iron, Nickel, Potassium and Water.

(These batteries have been out of production since 1972 when the Exide
Battery Company purchased the technology and discontinued its production
in North America.   They continue to be popular wordwide whenever long life
for a battery storage system is required for mining and emergency power.)


Click here for the Nickel Iron Battery Association
who offer general documentation on the technology.


Our Own Nickel Iron Battery Research
solar panels on roof
  700 Watts of Monocrystaline Solar Panels on Home
(Wired for 40 or 80 volts)

mppt controller
Maximum Power Point Charge Controller
 (Set up for Nickel Iron Batteries)


batteries in shed
  Nickel Iron Batteries in Garden Shed
(5.3 Kilowatt-hours of storage)

We added solar panels to our home and nickel iron batteries to the
garden shed for night time power.   This system powers lights and computers.

High Efficiency Solar Home Lighting
(constant brightness from 12V to 40V)
home ceiling light
Dome Lamp with Diffusing Cover for 100 watts of LED Light. 

This light draws only 1/3 amp at 36.3 volts.  The same light with 100
watts of incandescent power draws 3 amps.  Thus you will use only 1/10th
of the energy of incandescent lighting, leaving your energy supply free for
other tasks.  The lifespan is estimated at 50,000 hours of operation.  Testing
 of this ultra efficient mercury free design is underway in our family home.

light with shade removed
Diffusing cover removed reveals blindingly bright pair
of LED light modules, each equal to a 50 watt incandescent.


led light internal parts
Internal components of prototype showing leading edge LED modules,
aluminum heat, sink and constant current regulator (white block).


These will be available as a product for solar homes in July 2010.  
In our nickel iron battery backed house the voltage can vary from
39 volts to 12 volts ... but lights stay always the same intensity. They
will be available in daylight white and warm white (incandescent colour).


History of Nickel Iron Batteries
Historic Electric Car Running on Nickel Iron (Ni-Fe) Batteries
from 1912 to 1997

In North America Ni-Fe batteries have been out of production since 1973, when the
Exide Battery company bought the process and took them out of production for  unknown
reasons.   Lots to read at the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association about these batteres.

1912 Detroit Electric car

This car ran from 1912 to 1997 on the same Nickel Iron storage battery.
Go to the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association to read the story!

Shown above is VEVA's 1912 Detroit Electric. This car was owned by Mrs. Florence French of
Victoria,
BC from 1912 till the 1950s. It was driven regularly until the mid-1950s. Electric cars
were popular with the ladies due to the ease of starting, quietness and smoke-free cleanliness.
The original Nickel-Iron batteries were replaced in the late 1990s because the cases were failing
After fixing a case leak they still worked fine after 85 years of operation! Visit
the Detroit Electric
at home in the
Stave Falls BC Hydro powerhouse museum, also built in 1912!   The museum is
near Mission, BC
at 31338 Dewdney Trunk Road.  Call ahead at 604-462-1222 for hours.

Jay Leno owns two of them, and one of them is Ni-Fe powered.   His wife drives one of them and
she says the worst thing about them is the silent operation which has caused her to almost run
over dogs, cats, deer and pedestrians that walk across the road without noticing the car.

The BC Provincial Museum in Victoria BC Canada also has one on display running on Ni-Fe batteries.

Hydrogen Fuel Cells
fuel cell 500 wattfuel cell raw 1000 watt
To Purchase hydrogen fuel cell systems please visit ...

http://www.agoenvironmental.com

To Purchase Our Own Patented
2 way Emergency Radio Range Booster please visit ...

Rattail Antenna Booster

Doubles the range of VHF Emergency Radios
NOW AVAILABLE FOR COMMERCIAL RADIO FREQUENCIES
(100mhz to 250 mhz).

Microsec R&D Inc
Custom Electronic Product Design
(Custom Product Designs since 1986)

Inventions and innovative solutions to technical issues

Electronic product design for inventors and corporations

Microscope and Electron Microscope (SEM) imaging services

Production ready prototyping and production testing

Custom products using linux / open source designs

Alternate energy integration (solar, wind, hydrogen)

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Control Systems

Robotics, Underwater Movement and Sensing

Single chip computer and FPGA based designs


Analog signal measurement and data acquisition systems

Radio and Environmental monitoring using microcontrollers

Sales of Educational and Research hydrogen energy systems

U.S. patenting assistance through a U.S. patent agent

We offer these, and custom design services at a reasonable price.
Open Source tools used for product and documentation.
Victoria B.C. Canada on Vancouver Island.

Nearby Cities ...
Vancouver, BC Canada.
Nanaimo, BC Canada.
Seattle, Washington.
Portland, Washington.



News
Electric Tour Boat Building in Victoria BC
Microsec R&D Inc wants to collaborate with a local boat builder to create boats similar to
the plug in electric boat featured at the Chicago Worlds  Fair of 1893.   This amazing fleet
of 55 36 foot long boats carried during two years over a million passengers in an almost
silent powered electric boat.  They made a profit of over $300,000 in 1893 to 1894.   In
today's money that is 30 million.  

historic electric boat from 1893

We would like to collaborate with an established local boat builder in Victoria  BC  to 
bring this kind of silent tour boat into existence once again.    Smaller format boats 
could be created for family use in the inner harbour or in lakes that have outlawed
gasoline engines.   Our experience with hydrogen and solar technologies opens the way
to hybrid energy sources as alternatives to a plug-in electric design.   For many people
the plug in electric is the ultimate in simplicity and silent operation.  

We envision using a submerged electric engine for absolutely silent boating.   Our
experience with hydrogen and solar opens up the possibilities for charging and
increasing the range of such boats.   The plug in electric version however is the ultimate
in simplicity for tour boats. Modern battery technology will dramatically improve the range
as compared to what was possible in 1893.

If you are a boat builder in Victoria ... please consider working with us to create electric
boats for Canadian waters.   We thought we were pioneers in electric boats but historical
research has shown that the concept is simple and was popular a century ago!  

Canada's First Hydrogen Assisted Sailboat
In 2007 and 2008 Microsec R&D and  AGO  Environmental  Launched Canada's first
Hydrogen
Assisted Sailboat.  It can be seen in our Best Projects category above.

Jim Harrington of AGO Environmental won the Premier's Award
for Technology in Ontario
in Feb 2009 for this amazing boat!


sailboat hydrogen
Canada's First Hydrogen Assisted Sailboat


Energy and Hydrogen Clients
AGO Enviromental Ltd.
Igreen Technologies Inc.
Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies
Palcan Fuel Cells Ltd.

Flash of History (1957)
Legendary Canadian Designed Jet
Avro Arrow
Product of the Canadian Government
(Fastest jet of the era was also destroyed by the Conservative Government for mysterious reasons)
Link to Avro Arrow History


Website Updated July 1, 2010

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