About This Class
Building Solar Power Systems for YOUtopia
Instructors: Justin Walraven & Bill von Novak
Build your own solar power system at YOUopia and get away from noisy, dangerous and expensive generators.
Generators have long been a staple at Burning Man events - but they are expensive, dangerous (with carbon monoxide and fire hazards) and noisy. Solar power systems have become cheap and effective, and today you can easily run a camp on solar power alone. This course will show you the basics of solar power systems, and how to set up your own system.
Course Schedule:
One 2 hour course. After the class, if you would liek to stick around and help with YOUtopia's Temple build, we would love to have you!
Skills instilled:
Studentswill be able to build a basic solar power system, and understand all-in-one power systems like the Bluetti, Yeti, Goal Zero and similar systems.
Students should bring:
A multimeter if you have one. If not there will be a few onhand for use during the class.
Prerequisites:
None.
Cost:
$15
Class Attendance:
Space and availablity in our classes are extremely limited so we ask that attendees please respect our instructors and others in the community:
- Please show up promptly at the start of the class.
- We understand that things happen but out of repect for others and our instructors:
- Those arriving more than 20 minutes late to a class may not be allowed entry. There are no refunds in this case.
- Please let us know if you are unable to attend ASAP so we can open your spot to someone else wanting to attend the class. Refund policy is listed below.
Refund policy:
We purchase materials in advance of each of our classes, and thus, we've updated our refund policy as follows:
- Cancellation up to 7 days before the event: 100% refund, excluding QGiv fees.
- Cancellation between 3 and 7 days before the event: 50% refund, excluding QGiv fees.
- Less than 3 days before the event: 0% refund.
You can choose to have your refund returned to you by 1) your original payment method, or 2) refund applied to a QGiv credit that you can use for a reiteration of this class or another class entirely.
No Show Policy:
CoLab offers classes at little to no cost to the community. Space is extremely limited and demand is high. If you register for this class, please make absolutely sure you can attend otherwise you will be taking a valuable spot from someone else and de-valuing our instructor's time (who donate their time to CoLab). Because of this, we must insist that if you sign up and find that you cannot make it, you must communicate that to us ASAP so we can fill your spot with someone else that can make it.
Simply email us at info@sdcolab.org. We get it, life happens but please consider others in these situations. Repeated violators will be asked to seek art instruction elsewhere.
About Justin Walraven & Bill von Novak
Bill: Burner since 2011, power engineer for 30+ years, built half a dozen solar power systems on playa. Playa name, Sun Daddy.
Justin: Burner since 2023, power engineer, runs his own engineering company.
For any questions please email Bill at: billvon2@gmail.com
Find us on the Web
Colab is run on donations and grants. If you would like to donate, please visit our donation page: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/sdcapcolabevents/donations/
About This Class
Building Solar Power Systems for YOUtopia
Instructors: Justin Walraven & Bill von Novak
Build your own solar power system at YOUopia and get away from noisy, dangerous and expensive generators.
Generators have long been a staple at Burning Man events - but they are expensive, dangerous (with carbon monoxide and fire hazards) and noisy. Solar power systems have become cheap and effective, and today you can easily run a camp on solar power alone. This course will show you the basics of solar power systems, and how to set up your own system.
Course Schedule:
One 2 hour course. After the class, if you would liek to stick around and help with YOUtopia's Temple build, we would love to have you!
Skills instilled:
Studentswill be able to build a basic solar power system, and understand all-in-one power systems like the Bluetti, Yeti, Goal Zero and similar systems.
Students should bring:
A multimeter if you have one. If not there will be a few onhand for use during the class.
Prerequisites:
None.
Cost:
$15
Class Attendance:
Space and availablity in our classes are extremely limited so we ask that attendees please respect our instructors and others in the community:
- Please show up promptly at the start of the class.
- We understand that things happen but out of repect for others and our instructors:
- Those arriving more than 20 minutes late to a class may not be allowed entry. There are no refunds in this case.
- Please let us know if you are unable to attend ASAP so we can open your spot to someone else wanting to attend the class. Refund policy is listed below.
Refund policy:
We purchase materials in advance of each of our classes, and thus, we've updated our refund policy as follows:
- Cancellation up to 7 days before the event: 100% refund, excluding QGiv fees.
- Cancellation between 3 and 7 days before the event: 50% refund, excluding QGiv fees.
- Less than 3 days before the event: 0% refund.
You can choose to have your refund returned to you by 1) your original payment method, or 2) refund applied to a QGiv credit that you can use for a reiteration of this class or another class entirely.
No Show Policy:
CoLab offers classes at little to no cost to the community. Space is extremely limited and demand is high. If you register for this class, please make absolutely sure you can attend otherwise you will be taking a valuable spot from someone else and de-valuing our instructor's time (who donate their time to CoLab). Because of this, we must insist that if you sign up and find that you cannot make it, you must communicate that to us ASAP so we can fill your spot with someone else that can make it.
Simply email us at info@sdcolab.org. We get it, life happens but please consider others in these situations. Repeated violators will be asked to seek art instruction elsewhere.
About Justin Walraven & Bill von Novak
Bill: Burner since 2011, power engineer for 30+ years, built half a dozen solar power systems on playa. Playa name, Sun Daddy.
Justin: Burner since 2023, power engineer, runs his own engineering company.
For any questions please email Bill at: billvon2@gmail.com
Find us on the Web
Colab is run on donations and grants. If you would like to donate, please visit our donation page: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/sdcapcolabevents/donations/