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Someone told me that people use a lithium deep cycle bank to keep the lead acid batteries always charged above 50% so the batteries live extremely long. Was wondering if there are any quick references or builds like this I can find. It sounded like a good idea to me from my understanding of...

They stack two on top of eachother then make a door through the side it looks pretty cool

I used to mix 2 1000 liter totes like that with nutrients to grow weed in an automated hoop house lol… I’ve seen pics on Pinterest of people making showers out of them

Garbage can will only be like 50 gallons and the plastic is rated good… it’s the hoses that you have to be worried about. Don’t want to leave them in the sun and leach bpa. I’m pretty sure some cans don’t leach bpa but I don’t imagine I’ll be drinking the shower water lol… yeah I’m definitely...

Hopefully this little wen can handle giving me showers lol…. I have other pumps but I ran growing nutrients through them so I don’t imagine it would be too healthy to use to shower with. Thinking I’ll just buy a garbage can and create a outdoor freshwater tank for showers. Guess I shouldn’t have...

I’m thinking solar will be badass to run the easy wattage stuff then I can run the generator for the harder stuff. Might find a way to fit my washing machine into the thing

I was already thinking that… I ripped the desk out of the garage and it had a dinky little tank… might be time to remove it and the shower plugins look easy asf

Lol just looked at the generator and it’s a Onan 3.6kw propane generator that does 2.2 lbs propane at half load and 3.3 lbs propane at full load. I don’t buy propane but I feel like it’s only like 3-$4 a gallon and there’s 4.25 lbs in a gallon so it’s looking like it’ll only cost me like $2.50...

Alright 48 volts is better because you don’t have to use crazy huge wiring to step up the watts. For example 2400 watts at 12 volts is 200 amps and 2400 at 48 volts is 50 amps

Might need to save up for better deals on bigger panels and figure out what the string voltage thing the first dude told me to save meant. It still confuses me… so does adding panels in series double the charging voltage? So if it charges at 18 volts and you add two panels together you are at 36...

I’m going to wait a month or two before I decide to buy anything I’m learning too much as it is to make a decision yet

Alright I found a inverter for the system on Amazon it’s $420 that brings the budget up to $990 for a solar system that has potential for upgrading in the future. With 4 120watt panels I could be at like 400 watts so I guess that means I could possibly get up to 16-24more 120 watt panels...

Actually nvm I read your stuff twice I do need a 48 volt system I want to run 15 amp steady so I can run my behringer europower ep2500 on 4-18” woofers and my crown amp on another 10 amp but realistically they only pull about 10-15 amp altogether…. Would be bad ass to run a system on battery but...

Damn 600watts/12=50 amps and 2400watts/48volts=50 amps Maybe I don’t need to do 48 volt system? ??confused haha

From my understanding going from a 12 volt system to a 48 volt system just means I can use the controller I want to charge the batteries up to 2400 watts instead of 600 watts at 12 volts. But I guess I didn’t think about how many amps of juice I’d really be charging to those batteries haha…so if...