A J
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I am showing and telling my 5 year in the making on grid, off grid solar power storage system.
On Grid meaning that if things are going to be no good for solar I use the grid.
When switching I have a UPS to seamlessly switch between Grid and Solar, Stored Power.
Off Grid meaning NO GRID power.
When I first started in my solar experiments I was full of nuts with no bolts!
My first ever solar system was 12V 100Ah SLA AGM, 60Amp PWM charger with a very old hand me down damaged (in the junction box, the busbar had no connection, easy fix) 20 Watt BP solar panel.
Finding that this was only powerful enough to power X2 5M LED strip for 12 odd hours I saved my $$ and stepped it up.
Finding a suitable lockable storage cabinet, I placed a MDF board on the back and screwed it to the cabinet. Then finding a good controller to go with it was a head ache, two controllers later I stumbled upon MidNie Solar, The KID MPPT controller, umming and arring I went for it and by the time it came from the US, I had a 250 Watt panel with all the wiring complete, 1500 Watt 3000 Watt surge modified sine wave Inverter with the original 100Ah Battery!
Hum not enough POWER.
Saving again I got X3 12V 165Ah SLA AGM (495Ah total) Batteries.
YES POWER at last 12+ Hours on solar and stored power YES.
Upgraded inverter to pure sine wave, 2500 Watt, 5000 Watt surge.
4 years later I found my batteries where low, 300Wh not the KWh’s I would normally get, I had reached the CYCLE COUNT of the batteries! Oh well new Batteries then…
The new Batteries are X2 6V 520Ah SLA AGM in series making it 12V 520Ah, my off grid is buzzing or humming for at least another 5 years.
This Powers X2 5M LED strip, X4 Laptops, main Laptop sound system, X3 monitors, X2 Uniden Bearcat Scanners, IP Surveillance Camera, 8 Port router, WiFi extender, and some electronic testing equipment, low power supplies.
Sounds like a lot? No after the UPS stops charging it's battery its around 20 to 28 Amps FULL LOAD 30+ below 40 Amps, the only time I have not been able to fully charge the batteries is when the clouds come from no where or a storm puts a damper on things, doesn't happen often, the most i have gotten just charging the batteries is 2.4KWh
Oh I nearly forgot I upgraded the solar panel as well from 250W to 315W.
Just putting this out there and THANK YOU.
"AGAIN"
From the ?? (AU)
P.S.
To "Will", THANK YOU for all the hard work, putting the forum up and running for all to enjoy, very impressed!:D
THANKS AGAIN.
On Grid meaning that if things are going to be no good for solar I use the grid.
When switching I have a UPS to seamlessly switch between Grid and Solar, Stored Power.
Off Grid meaning NO GRID power.
When I first started in my solar experiments I was full of nuts with no bolts!
My first ever solar system was 12V 100Ah SLA AGM, 60Amp PWM charger with a very old hand me down damaged (in the junction box, the busbar had no connection, easy fix) 20 Watt BP solar panel.
Finding that this was only powerful enough to power X2 5M LED strip for 12 odd hours I saved my $$ and stepped it up.
Finding a suitable lockable storage cabinet, I placed a MDF board on the back and screwed it to the cabinet. Then finding a good controller to go with it was a head ache, two controllers later I stumbled upon MidNie Solar, The KID MPPT controller, umming and arring I went for it and by the time it came from the US, I had a 250 Watt panel with all the wiring complete, 1500 Watt 3000 Watt surge modified sine wave Inverter with the original 100Ah Battery!
Hum not enough POWER.
Saving again I got X3 12V 165Ah SLA AGM (495Ah total) Batteries.
YES POWER at last 12+ Hours on solar and stored power YES.
Upgraded inverter to pure sine wave, 2500 Watt, 5000 Watt surge.
4 years later I found my batteries where low, 300Wh not the KWh’s I would normally get, I had reached the CYCLE COUNT of the batteries! Oh well new Batteries then…
The new Batteries are X2 6V 520Ah SLA AGM in series making it 12V 520Ah, my off grid is buzzing or humming for at least another 5 years.
This Powers X2 5M LED strip, X4 Laptops, main Laptop sound system, X3 monitors, X2 Uniden Bearcat Scanners, IP Surveillance Camera, 8 Port router, WiFi extender, and some electronic testing equipment, low power supplies.
Sounds like a lot? No after the UPS stops charging it's battery its around 20 to 28 Amps FULL LOAD 30+ below 40 Amps, the only time I have not been able to fully charge the batteries is when the clouds come from no where or a storm puts a damper on things, doesn't happen often, the most i have gotten just charging the batteries is 2.4KWh
Oh I nearly forgot I upgraded the solar panel as well from 250W to 315W.
Just putting this out there and THANK YOU.
"AGAIN"
From the ?? (AU)
P.S.
To "Will", THANK YOU for all the hard work, putting the forum up and running for all to enjoy, very impressed!:D
THANKS AGAIN.