Solar Home Systems

I did schematic capture and board layout for the original SolarHome 5000, the SolarHome 5000+, and SolarHome 625 / 1025 / 1550 platform.

These products form a major fraction of the small pay-as-you-go solar energy market in Africa.

I am especially proud of the SolarHome 625 platform. It was a major cost reduction and performance improvement over its predecessor, can be flexibly configured for different battery packs and power capability, and is prized by our partners for its low field failure rate.

• Heavily cost constrained

• Design for market-specific standards and importation requirements

• Improvements on existing product, in existing housing

• Maintenance of extensive software tooling for development and diagnostics