I have come to realize that many times when I am living off
the grid I'm only using two or three hundred watts of power from my two gas
powered generators.
This is why I ended up buying the off grid solar systems array
I have on my shed.
These three large hundred and twenty-three watt twelve volt
panels along with
six fifteen watt panels that are always in parallel but give
me approximately four hundred and fifty watt's (this is the advantages of solar
power.) they are all coming down into this little off grid solar systems
combiner box. I highly recommend if you are putting in a off grid solar systems
to buy one of these combiner boxes, because they allow you to turn off and on
dc breakers on each individual panel so you can see actually what you're doing
and see if there's anything like a short or if the panels are not running
efficiently. Inside here I have a transfer switch that actually is a breaker
box as well, I can simply flip the switch on and off of the off grid solar
systems generator by flipping the switch I can run off of my off grid solar
systems here.
A nice thing is, either way it actually tells me how many
watts that I'm using inside my tiny house from this particular box I am running
off of my off grid solar systems you can
tell I have just cut off this female end of an eighty foot extension
cable ran it overhead
into my off grid solar systems battery bank; by the way I
have young children and I would highly recommend if you have kids around best
thing would be to put this in a way that kids can’t get to it. I have a Zandtrack
c thirty five charge controller that I just finished equalizing the batteries
with. I have eight six volt two hundred twenty-five amp hour batteries that are
wired in series rather than in parallel to give me a total of the nine hundred
amp hours in our global battery bank. I also have this little inverter here that
doesn't charge just a simple inverter but the one thing I love about this is it tells me how many watts I am using in the tiny
house.
Using simple math you can see that right now I am using a
hundred watts
I am producing if you can see that it's less than six amps
or seventy six watts of power so it's kind of a nice resource because it tells
me I'm still taking more power out of the batteries then or I'm putting back in
from the off grid solar systems array works out very nicely. My next up grade
will be to actually replace this charge controller to replace this inverter
with one that will actually charge and invert so when I do run my off grid
solar systems generator I will be able to use the excess power but I'm not
using my cabin charge these battery packs anyways I'd appreciate any comments
that you have I've learned so much from the people here in beautiful I thank
everybody out there that is given explanations of how they use their off grid
solar systems power array and how they use their off grid solar systems energy it's
been very useful for me in any tips or ideas or thoughts or anything that I can
share with other people feel free to contact me that's it for now.
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