Living Energy Lights products are very different from typical off-grid solar kits. Our products all use DC (direct current), and none of our products are designed to be a general power supply for conventional AC (alternating current) appliances. Instead, our products are designed to provide specific services. Iron Sun kits provide lighting and charging for efficient 12 volt appliances. The Sundanzer DDR refrigerator uses energy straight from a photovoltaic panel without battery backup.
Our products work just fine as stand alone, household scale systems. But for best results, we recommend using them along with daylight drive and solar thermal systems as an integrated, village scale DC Microgrid. In the context of a DC Microgrid, our products can provide almost all of the services that grid power can, at a much lower financial and environmental cost. The team at Living Energy Lights has been living off the grid for ten years. Our DC Microgrid, which includes an Iron Sun Homestead kit and Sundanzer refrigerator, has been providing all the energy needs for a dozen people since 2010. We know our products work, because we live with them every day.