07-22-2016, 09:15 AM
An off-grid solar system is basically "just" an on-line UPS with its batteries charged from a non-grid power source.
As such, most of the necessary components cross over to this application, and many of them are available locally; the "off-grid store" in Kurtistown had some nice pure-sine invertes last time I looked.
The other way around is: retrofit the PC with a native DC power supply, such as the picoPSU from minibox -- suitable for most PC applications that DON'T include one of those huge gaming-type video cards.
http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-160-XT
The "wide input" versions have a large enough input power range that they can safely be run directly from the battery bank of a PV system without any problems...
As such, most of the necessary components cross over to this application, and many of them are available locally; the "off-grid store" in Kurtistown had some nice pure-sine invertes last time I looked.
The other way around is: retrofit the PC with a native DC power supply, such as the picoPSU from minibox -- suitable for most PC applications that DON'T include one of those huge gaming-type video cards.
http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-160-XT
The "wide input" versions have a large enough input power range that they can safely be run directly from the battery bank of a PV system without any problems...