Can this portable Solar Generator System power my house all year round.

OUPES Mega 5 + 8x240W Solar Panels+2xB5 Battery 15.12Kwh Solar Generator System​

My first question is can this system be used all year long and power a house all year long???​

Xmasholiday said:

So I am looking at this solar generator system its a little over $7000 including tax https://www.ebay.com/itm/1666312727...JgthkNs5OnncG9qQaQlbxc0A==|tkp:Bk9SR-6x2a_3Yw

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OUPES Mega 5 + 8x240W Solar Panels+2xB5 Battery 15.12Kwh Solar Generator System​

My first question is can this system be used all year long and power a house all year long???​

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chrisski said:

I'm the only one that follows rules like that, to everyone else, they forget, don't understand, or they hear "if the microwave is on, everything else in the house needs to go off unless you feel a need or inkling to keep something on than it'll be OK."

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plympton said:

Echo what's said, but I'd also add that if you use an electric dryer, you're daily power use skyrockets! I used 10 kWh of power for drying 3 loads of laundry! Granted, that's $2 in the state of things here, but it drives my net-usage through the roof compared to most days.

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chrisski said:

No.

I don't see how any American hose can live without conserving on a 4000 watt / 7000 watt load with only 5 X 120 volt receptacles and a 15 kWh battery. To top that off 2 kW of solar panels is not replacing much power into those batteries. I would expect from 4 kWh to 10 kWh of power every day in the solar perfect area I live, not much power at all. I can certainly power my RV off that if I don't use hot water and have no heat or cooling or refrigeration needs.

With the a 30 amp hookup perhaps it could put electricity to the whole house, but great care would need to be exercised to not exceed a 30 amp limit. Since US electricity is split phase, hooking the single phase input from the generator to the whole house circuit panel is a bad idea.

If you could live off 4 kWh per day in the winter and 10 kWh per day in the summer, A house with power requirements this size would be much better off to get a decade worth of grid tied electricity from the Power Company. I doubt the unit would last that long with constant use without replacing components at an expense if the company is still around.

You could do it if you wanted to, but why would you want to? Any guest or family I've had to my RV has not understood or ignored the limits put on them and exceeded them. You'd be doing things like "if the microwave is on, everything else in the house needs to go off." I'm the only one that follows rules like that, to everyone else, they forget, don't understand, or they hear "if the microwave is on, everything else in the house needs to go off unless you feel a need or inkling to keep something on than it'll be OK."

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Xmasholiday said:

I live in Massachusetts and I have Oil boiler which heats up water to make steam, Ok I think the general consensus is 15kw system may not be enough I live in a mutli family house that I own and I just want to power the 1st floor and leave the 2nd floor connected too the grid would a 35KW system work they go up too 45kwh I like the idea of portable solar system to avoid all the red tape and permits

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Xmasholiday said:

hybrid system powering half the house and if I need to buy more solar panels thats fine.

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chrisski said:

Take a look at your electric bill at all four seasons and find out your needs.

I don't recommend doing anything unless its a grid tied system with the hassling and permits. A portable solar generator system will turn into a "Chasing Numbers Game" to make it look like you're breaking even.

I track energy saved on a portable generator I use to power a crock pot and a rock tumbler for about 200 kWh this year. This will save me $40 real dollars in electricity. After perhaps 50 years, this will have paid for itself.



Upsizing to power half the house seems like a great idea, but the devils in the details in the implementation. Look at "Same System Different Area--Huge Difference " in my signature block. Massachusetts is not a great area for solar like I live in, Arizona.

My power bill is 6 times the price in the summer for the air conditioner, and that is bad for 4 months of the year. If you have loads like my 4.5 kw air conditioner that you can save money if you can transfer these to solar; easier said than done. They'd have to be measured somehow like a kilawatt meter. It'd be best if these loads were steady year round, and at a power level that your solar can provide. Aside from the AC, I have a Tesla that charges at up to 11 kW, and that is to much to build my system around.

I have three setups, two of which I built: My RV and a portable Generator. The third is the 10 kW system the contractor put on my roof.

The portable solar generator has a 2.4 kWh battery and a 1 kW inverter, so I can run some stuff, but not a whole lot.

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OUPES Mega 5 Home Backup Power Station im looking at.​

Xmasholiday said:

I think this will power more than a Crock Pot and rock tumbler haha here is a little video on youtube this solar generator has a tesla charger too this is a little video about this

OUPES Mega 5 Home Backup Power Station im looking at.​

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SunDave said:

Hi holiday,
You are looking to go large enough where it would make sense to revisit a less temporary solution. Permitting is not that difficult. The marketing material for the modular "generators" look pretty tidy, but by the time they are all wired together, then to their hubs, there is a decent amount of spaghetti.

Just my 2c.

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