By Bruce Gardiner | Project Director
Recently, I was invited to give a solar training at Naung Taung monastery, near Taunggyi in southern Shan State, which is an area I hadn't visited before. The monastery is large, with over 400 novice monks and about 600 children who receive education there. Our training followed the usual pattern of familiarizing the participants with the use of the multimeter and a great deal of information about solar panels and batteries. The twenty participants came from many different monasteries where they are either monks or teachers. One of the highlights of the training was when we visited a solar system already in use in a restaurant and the students were able to diagnose some of the problems occuring there and advise the owner how to fix them. All in all, we covered alot of technical ground and the participants went away with a greatly expanded knowledge of solar electricity. I'm sure I will return to Naung Taung at some time in the future.
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