Power
Not being power experts ourselves, we would like those of you in the TIDES community who are aware of what features and measurements are important when regarding lighting products to give your thoughts on how to best present products on our website. Please discuss what changes or current aspects of our categories are helpful. Keep in mind that we don't want to bog down our website users in overly-technical details, but that TIDES is aiming to keep things simple enough to make searching for a lighting product according to one's needs a practical and efficient feature of the website. We will take into consideration all the comments and ideas that are brought forward in this discussion group as we move forward with the population of our website.
Populating the Website Infrastructure Directory
The purpose of TIDES's infrastructure directory is to provide users with information about infrastructure solutions that may meet their needs; therefore, we want to provide users with the most useful available. The informational categories we have identified so far are:
Product Name:
Product Description:
Power Source: none, solar, wind, micro-hydro, diesel gasoline, biomass, hybrid, other
Power Output (kw/hr):
Stability of Power:
Power Type: none, generator, converer/inverter, transmission, storage, system
Product Life Expectancy:
Power Cost:
Shipping Dimensions:
Deployed Dimensions:
Number of People Required for Assembly:
Assembly Time (in minutes):
Spare Parts Required:
Ease of Repair:
Independent Testing Results:
Training Requirements:
