Developed by Paul McRae. After university, I started as a systems programmer developing compilers, assemblers, drivers and bits of operating systems, becoming a director of R&D for various software houses and manufacturers; ultimately retiring and moving to sunny Cyprus 25 years ago.

Nowadays, I volunteer my time to teach youths to sail, adults to cross Oceans and aviation ground school at RAF Akrotiri. However, most of my time is spent developing hardware and software associated with my passion for photovoltaic energy. As a qualified and experienced electrician, I can combine this skill with my knowledge of programming and designing high tech electronics to explore many new ideas associated with photovoltaic energy.

This led to me offering advice over the internet, that grew to the point where I kept answering the same questions and I soon realised that the issue was not in the technical detail, it was the background information as to 'why'. Consequently, I thought I would develop a website that not only addresses these questions, but expands on them and offers more in depth explanations.

More recently, I have become involved in the design, construction and programming of inverter control systems, I know that there is a huge interest in this from the keen, more technically minded DIYers, inverter manufacturers and installation companies I work with, however, once you start to understand the nuances and technical detail, this can become fantastically complicated with the daunting mathematics of fourier waveform analysis and pico-integration. I am hoping that using all my spare time, R&D experience, inverter design, communications and systems programming skills, I may be able to help the world.

I welcome any thoughts, suggestions, critiques, bugs, observations, ideas or questions, please use Contact Us.