By putting your location as part of your profile info or in your signature, i.e. Pittsburgh, PA or South West PA (if you want to be more private) you will help others to know the climate your setup is in. It will also allow them to compare, provide you with better solutions and those close by...
Watching Will's battery comparison video; I like what I heard about the Trophy Batteries and them having a builtin heater is a big plus for me.
I'm planning to use a shipping container, in our Ontario Canada cold winters, to house all my equipment, including the batteries.
If I go with this kind of paint I would use it to cover the entire roof, seen in black, on this box that will be using.
The rest of the box will be painted white with stripes to match the cab.
(The box currently on the truck is for the R&D work to be done, allowing for mistakes to be made and...
BTW Steve, I like to plan as much as anyone can. Sometimes I overthink things and make them more complicated than they need to be. But once the boots hit the ground - things can change and one has to go with the flow. Grin
Are you associated with Solacity?
The panels will be adjustable due to the fact that our winters are long and we need to capture as much sun as we can for the few hours we have each day during our winter months.
Good to know. We get a lot of cloudy days. Plus our winters are long or at least for me they are. Thank you for responding. I'm looking at half-cell panels with 420W and above... I plan to paint my container White to help with the reflection. It might sound silly, but I'm also thinking about...
I plan to have the room climate controlled. I hope to use an entire house heat exchanger to pull fresh air in from one side, heat it up as it passes through and exhaust the old air out the other side. Even if I have to enlarge the current holes. For that matter I could do the entire...
I've found flexible 200W solar panels that have very strong adhesive on them and I can fix at least one, maybe two, to the roof of the sleeper box. It's better than nothing. My rig, being a former ambulance, happens to have a second alternator and I plan to set it up to charge the Solar...
YES - I had purchased our container 2 years ago for emergency storage and for plans to do solar on our farm. Due to all the evergreen trees around the house, we can't use the house roof. Plus, we don't have the indoor space needed for all the equipment. I found Courtney & Rilley's Solar build...
I've decided to go with the Bluetti - AC200 MAX (without an extended battery), for my rig setup and to use around the farm where there is no electricity.
When I purchase it is another story. Grin & lol I hope to be able to get it before my next road trip.
(In the last two weeks I had front...
And light bulb glows. A-ah, they have 2 - 10k and not 2 -15k Victron units.
I found it in their Total Cost video that said what size they were.
But I just now clicked on the link they had under the install video and it would have told me there. (I might have been binge watching too much and got...
ADJUSTABLE PANELS:
We are trying to place our panels on a container, that will be located on the north side of the house, in the open field.
I have a concern, during winter, about having to deal with bad reflection off of the panels and into the windows on the north side of our house.
Anyone...
Still looking for a good place to put the shipping container and panels
Sun movement out our kitchen window today.
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Thank you.
I never use it during winter. I don't want the salt roads to destroy it.
98 to 99 percent of the time it will be used in summer, some occasions early fall. And only when I'm with it to know the outside temps. Plus I have a small diesel heater to keep the inside warm.
As for EPS...
My reply is in bold. Thanks for your time and help. BTW - One big change we are making = switching out the all-electric hot water tank for a heat pump model. I went looking today at our local Home Depot - here in Canada and they don't offer them here like they do in the USA @ Home Depot or...
We want as many options as possible. We want to slowly build up our solar system - due to cost. Here in Ontario, they pay you kW for kW. Plus at some point we will sell this place and we like to offer the buyer more options - than what we might want - to have a better chance of selling the...
Looking for recommendations - PLEASE
Unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that I will have to buy more than one kind of solar generator setup for everything I'm wanting to do.
(I had hoped that would not have been the case.)
The reason for this post - I've been looking for a while &...
FYI - I plan on having an All-in-one system
We purchased a 20' shipping container to install the array and house everything else.
It will be away from the house and have everything inside the container. (Our house is small at 1,000sf slab on grade.)
I'll have to run wires all the way over to...
It so happens I've been reading up and watching videos on those who have installed Bifacial Panels and I even started a thread here in Solar Panels - asking about the realistic output of them. Only one reply so far. Here is the link...
In a prefect world I could have a system that would run the entire house while not costing too much or taking up too much space. A system that I can build over time and even take a small part of it with me when I'm on the road. That way I don't have to buy different units. Currently, I'm...
I built this truck and I sleep in it when I'm away from home. I want to run a TV, Fan, Cell Phone & Screenbeam Mini, Refrigerator Freezer Cooler and on cold nights, when I'm sleeping, I also want to run my small diesel heater. When I'm home I want to use it as a backup for my wife's CPAP and...