Great system my friend. I actually battery powered my house after the hurricanes of 2004. I was running 12v panels charging 880 amp hrs of 6v golf cart batteries. Ran all of my house lights every night for 6 yrs.
Wanting to do something similar here. A small solar system and a dual fuel generator. Each to serve as backups when the grid goes down. Thanks for sharing your approach. Appreciated.
Well, I have much more to learn. Just like in radio, you try to start purchasing equipment that gets you best use and bang for the buck. I’m sure this solar is no exception. Thanks for watching and for your comment! 73 W4JFS
I broke down and bought a Jackery 240 w 60 watt panel to take camping which I'll be doing here in 2 weeks. FL is a good state to have back up power that have hurricanes. Me, have to worry about snow storms. Weather seems to get you where ever you go. : - )
I run a 400 watt Renogy system off grid full time.power in my tiny cabin and barn. Works fine over the past 6 years. I put a 100 watt system in my tiny camper also. Solar is great. You’re going to get seriously hooked lol.
Welcome to solar power. I run my camping lot with solar power. It is fun, and expensive. Here comes some math for you. Conventional wisdom says that you should not draw your lead acid battery below 70%, which in your situation works out to 36.6 amp hours of usable power. If you experience no other losses in your wiring or inverter (inverters never work at 100% efficiency) that leaves you with 468 watt hours of power. So if your fridge uses 500 watts, you can run that fridge for 468/500 of an hour (about 54 minutes). I hope you have fun with this. I sure do. It does wear out your budget though.
Yeah. I know I am very limited. What I have have done in the past with hurricane outages is put my wireless weather temp sensor from outside in the fridge and monitor the temp on the main panel without opening the door. When the temp reaches around 45 degrees, I would plug in the inverter on the car while the engine is idling until it reaches 40 degrees again. Then disconnect and keep the door closed. All I’m doing is just prolonging the food from spoiling a little longer as the power could be out for days. After the food is gone or bad, that part is done so then all I need is something for fans, lights, and charging stuff. A gas generator is nice but gas is so scarce before and after the storm that the generator would not last long. We will give this system a try when we get hit again and see how it does. I’m sure I will be spending more money in the future. Thanks for watching another video of mine and for showing me the math.
Looking forward to seeing how your solar setup progresses
Great system my friend. I actually battery powered my house after the hurricanes of 2004. I was running 12v panels charging 880 amp hrs of 6v golf cart batteries. Ran all of my house lights every night for 6 yrs.
👍 I have two smaller portable solar panels i’ve used during blackouts and camping, they definitely come in handy.
Wanting to do something similar here. A small solar system and a dual fuel generator. Each to serve as backups when the grid goes down. Thanks for sharing your approach. Appreciated.
No way, I'm not laughing,, I'm learning.
Very cool set-up John. Thanks for sharing! 73
Well, I have much more to learn. Just like in radio, you try to start purchasing equipment that gets you best use and bang for the buck. I’m sure this solar is no exception. Thanks for watching and for your comment! 73 W4JFS
Glad to see you back. Blessings
Pastor Mike.
Thanks Pastor. It’s good to have time to post. Blessing back to you.
I broke down and bought a Jackery 240 w 60 watt panel to take camping which I'll be doing here in 2 weeks. FL is a good state to have back up power that have hurricanes. Me, have to worry about snow storms. Weather seems to get you where ever you go. : - )
I live in NC. We have to worry about hurricanes and ice storms. Both have a history of taking out the power for 2+ weeks at a time here.
I run a 400 watt Renogy system off grid full time.power in my tiny cabin and barn. Works fine over the past 6 years. I put a 100 watt system in my tiny camper also. Solar is great. You’re going to get seriously hooked lol.
Always good to have backup power, he says from Texas. Hooking up another battery in parallel is the way to go.👍
Welcome to solar power. I run my camping lot with solar power. It is fun, and expensive. Here comes some math for you. Conventional wisdom says that you should not draw your lead acid battery below 70%, which in your situation works out to 36.6 amp hours of usable power. If you experience no other losses in your wiring or inverter (inverters never work at 100% efficiency) that leaves you with 468 watt hours of power. So if your fridge uses 500 watts, you can run that fridge for 468/500 of an hour (about 54 minutes). I hope you have fun with this. I sure do. It does wear out your budget though.
Yeah. I know I am very limited. What I have have done in the past with hurricane outages is put my wireless weather temp sensor from outside in the fridge and monitor the temp on the main panel without opening the door. When the temp reaches around 45 degrees, I would plug in the inverter on the car while the engine is idling until it reaches 40 degrees again. Then disconnect and keep the door closed. All I’m doing is just prolonging the food from spoiling a little longer as the power could be out for days. After the food is gone or bad, that part is done so then all I need is something for fans, lights, and charging stuff. A gas generator is nice but gas is so scarce before and after the storm that the generator would not last long. We will give this system a try when we get hit again and see how it does. I’m sure I will be spending more money in the future. Thanks for watching another video of mine and for showing me the math.
I'm gathering parts to do something similar myself.
Awesome! I hope it all works out.
That looks like pretty versatile gear. It may not be mess kits but how long is it going to be before we see you operating a solar cooker?
Lol. I dunno. I don’t have a solar cooker but I do have a homemade folding reflector oven!