Google has made my day

Google have just sent me a 200NIS voucher to use in Adwords as I see fit.
I'm not used to receiving printed mail other than bills and subpoenas, Since it's the first Email I've received from Google, I was quite shocked that they gave me such a nice gift, hope to use it wisely :)

Google Adsense made my day!

Solar Optimizer preliminary draft

After a longer than expected render I've come up with a preliminary draft which I'll keep abusing...
for more information about the study visit here

Sun view of the 2 trial array

An additional Idia rose while I was addressing this, that the dynamic panel could also be an additional reflector for the rest of the array, so for this experiment I've used only 2 panels, one stationary and one facing the sun.

Close up PV

and a parrallel video output you can view here:

a second version of 3 tracking panels here in this video:

Solar Optimizer thoughts

After encountering technologies such as Tigo Maximizer units and having short conversations about some of the issues that rise when developing the photovoltic solar installations, It seems that such an array could have additional management and control for the following:

Capitola restaurant 3D building, Google Earthed

Uploaded a new model to Google Earth 3D layer, This is a restaurant Ron and Eti have invited us to dine in while spending our Honeymoon in the states

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The Tech Museum and dining

We visited the Tech museum in the morning, still one of the first drives in the US without any GPS, took a green stick-note from Eti's kitchen and drew a little map of the area, We found a distant place to park the car there, the places we've seen "public parking" cost about 10$ an hour so we had to walk a bit in the cold.

And Perli found a nice colored car

The museum is very playful, most of the artifacts are very interactive, when we have kids we should visit there (also next time we should also get to Epcot Center...)

We finished the visit in a diner named "Johnny rockets" there we had a meal we also put the camera in stop motion mode (CHDK) and it turned out like this:

Additional pictures from today can be seen in this link

Taste buds day

We started the morning at Santana Row which is a very nice place to visit we wanted to see the "movies" but they were all so "Family" rated but we wanted a scary movie, There's a bakery there named "Cocola bakery" that has really good cakes.

Sadly, they have no place to wash hands so Perli used a cup with water to wash her hands...

but we soon found a bathroom that was camouflaged by a large ornament made of mirrors

After a short walk there we also went to a mall that has about 15 movie theaters but they all were PG rated (PlayGround?) at the toilet I've found you can buy a fake mustache for a quarter, stupid but had to test one...

 we spent most of the day just traveling and wondering.

 Eti and Ron invited us to a dinner at a sushi restaurant (I believe it is Sushi Kuni) near their house and it was very tasty :)
it was a nice finish to that day and I ate some kind of sea porcupine that was too large to put in the mouth but went down well :)
I've made a 3D model of Sushi Kuni, Now Live in google earth:

Stop resting ! what kind of a vacation is this ?

Had a romantic morning at Eti and Ron's place

Then we set our way (using our special GPS, shown in the picture) to "Fry's Electronics" to see if we can get that pink laptop we've seen in their site for perli. They didn't know what we were talking about at fry's... Something we must say about Fry's electronics, the store has a lot in stock for the hardware enthusiast but that doesn't justify their lack in human resource... the tellers/helpers are ignorant (probably weren't accepted as Kwik-E-mart greeters). when we've asked one guy that appears to work there about one of the computers he forwarded us to "the internet", perhaps "there" we will find it. when we asked someone that worked at the camera department if we can test one of their light products on my camera he forwarded me to "the internet", perhaps "there" i can find out if the product is compatible... freaks !

although fry's little helpers are little or no help at all, they have a lot of equipment there but make sure you carry "the internet" with you because these guys don't help at all... also heard that their return policy deprives you from a full work day so good luck :)

The coffee here watered, if they don't have "Latt'e" ask for a stronger or double dose of coffee, otherwise it'll taste like maple water. also, the smallest cup here is about twice the size of the largest cup in Israel...

Noticed a lot of cute vehicles in the area, like the lotus and a very strange lowered Chevrolet (in the picture). That lotus must weigh about 600Kg and one can see it has more carbon fibers than a F-16 jet... with the engine they have installed I doubt they bought this one for miles/gallon rate...

  Perli started a new hobby (maybe I'm boring her with all my geek stuff) to snapshot each and every FedEx truck we see, that's actually more fun than I thought at first

we spent the rest of the day at Eti and Ron's house having fun, Noa was excited to try out my tablet but when she noticed that you have to learn a new software for drawing she was less excited...