Solar panels, charge controllers, and system calculations
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 2:28 pm
Other than battery banks being complicated, it seems figuring out how many solar panels you need to match your battery bank is also pretty complicated. Hence, this thread all about solar panels, solar panel wiring, and solar charge controllers.
The battery bank thread is here.
As in the battery bank thread, I will say that I have been getting serious about going off grid electrically. The current timeline is by summer of 2016. It may get pushed around a bit. At present I use around 100-200kwh a month but it seems to live off grid using that much I would need a heap of batteries and panels so I will likely need to lower my electrical use.
This thread is all about solar panels, solar panel wiring, solar charge controllers, mounting of solar panels, angles of solar panels, brands of solar panels, so on and so forth. Everything solar panel related. I would like to see this thread as a good resource to those on the grid who want to get off the grid.
Do you have solar panels? If so how many? What are they rated for? How do you have them wired? What brand are they? Are they performing good? Did you make them yourself? Are they broken cell panels or new cell panels (if you made them yourself)? How are they compared to the size of your battery bank? If you could do anything different, what would you do? Any tips, hints, tricks, aimed at the newbies? So on and so forth.
The battery bank thread is here.
As in the battery bank thread, I will say that I have been getting serious about going off grid electrically. The current timeline is by summer of 2016. It may get pushed around a bit. At present I use around 100-200kwh a month but it seems to live off grid using that much I would need a heap of batteries and panels so I will likely need to lower my electrical use.
This thread is all about solar panels, solar panel wiring, solar charge controllers, mounting of solar panels, angles of solar panels, brands of solar panels, so on and so forth. Everything solar panel related. I would like to see this thread as a good resource to those on the grid who want to get off the grid.
Do you have solar panels? If so how many? What are they rated for? How do you have them wired? What brand are they? Are they performing good? Did you make them yourself? Are they broken cell panels or new cell panels (if you made them yourself)? How are they compared to the size of your battery bank? If you could do anything different, what would you do? Any tips, hints, tricks, aimed at the newbies? So on and so forth.