off-grid in Northern Wisconsin for 14 years
Marcos Buenijo wrote:Perhaps you can confirm or correct the following line of thought: The way I see it, it's not practical to store and/or use all the production from a large solar array in the off grid setting.
Also, I understand your space heating during winter is done primarily with a wood furnace. What kind of wood consumption do you see during winter months?
off-grid in Northern Wisconsin for 14 years
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Linda Potter wrote:Hi Chris ! We have a VERY small solar system with a pin wheel. We live about 2500 ft up in a semi arid area of Andalucia, Spain. We are self taught mostly as finding people with experience is proving difficult. Our batteries keep dying on us and we will be re-investing in new ones in the next few months. We are obviously using more than the system is generating and storing, so we will be buying more solar panels as we can afford them. One question, is it better we buy a battery with a large capacity and keep it topped up. Or should the battery be small because our input is small ? Hope this makes sense. Thanks, Linda
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Linda Potter wrote:We are obviously using more than the system is generating and storing, so we will be buying more solar panels as we can afford them. One question, is it better we buy a battery with a large capacity and keep it topped up. Or should the battery be small because our input is small ? Hope this makes sense. Thanks, Linda
off-grid in Northern Wisconsin for 14 years
Linda Potter wrote:
My last question, for the time being, I would like to know how to roughly calculate just how big an array and battery capacity we need.
off-grid in Northern Wisconsin for 14 years
Linda Potter wrote:Thanks again ! I'll double check on the fridge. It doesn't sound right does it ? This is really helpful and my hubby and I will be using it to see what we can afford and what we get first. It really is a steep learning curve, isn't it ! Abrazos ! Linda
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