Electrician Builds Custom, Solar-Powered Job-Site Trailer

摘要

WHILE GENERATORS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN a necessity for most job-site work, that may not be the case anymore, thanks to an idea by Andy Naggy, general foreman for VEC Inc., Girard, Ohio. His idea? A solar-powered job-site trailer. According to Naggy's calculations, work generators required an average of four gallons of gas per day. For those generators, he estimated a cost of more than $2,500 a year, not even accounting for the cost and time associated with driving to purchase the gas on a regular basis, storing the gas, cleaning up spills, maintaining containment areas around the generator and storage area, and performing regular maintenance and oil changes on the generator. It was also inconvenient to load up the generator when moving the work trailer to a new job site.