04-16-2013, 02:57 AM
you never want to run Lead Acid Batts into the ground. Only pull 20-40% Max... But if you can keep it at 20% discharge you'll reap greater benefits.
You only get 3 hours of sun? Yeah, there is a dude on CL selling 240 Watt Panels for 250 bucks. Basically a dollar a watt.
If you're putting together your own system the main thing is... you want to start out with a decent Charger and Inverter since being able to add batteries and more panels is always a good thing. I went from 2kWh a day to 3... But I want to factor in for at least a 5K watt system maybe even a 6K watt since no one can really account for all the cloudy days ... The beautiful thing is ... RIGHT now you can buy solar panels for a buck a watt so even with that it's only gonna be around 3-5K buck in panels. Since you should be able to get 3-4 hours of sunlight here well in my area anyway. So even if you only had 2 hours sunlight at 8 240 watt panels will produce about 4-9K watts average I would think around my area. So that would be about 4K bucks in Panels.
Hey mark, only 200 bucks in wiring? What gauge of wire you got going to the batteries? So costco battery about 100 bucks a pop, how many amp hours for them?
You only get 3 hours of sun? Yeah, there is a dude on CL selling 240 Watt Panels for 250 bucks. Basically a dollar a watt.
If you're putting together your own system the main thing is... you want to start out with a decent Charger and Inverter since being able to add batteries and more panels is always a good thing. I went from 2kWh a day to 3... But I want to factor in for at least a 5K watt system maybe even a 6K watt since no one can really account for all the cloudy days ... The beautiful thing is ... RIGHT now you can buy solar panels for a buck a watt so even with that it's only gonna be around 3-5K buck in panels. Since you should be able to get 3-4 hours of sunlight here well in my area anyway. So even if you only had 2 hours sunlight at 8 240 watt panels will produce about 4-9K watts average I would think around my area. So that would be about 4K bucks in Panels.
Hey mark, only 200 bucks in wiring? What gauge of wire you got going to the batteries? So costco battery about 100 bucks a pop, how many amp hours for them?