50acres&acabin
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Hi, this is my system on my cabin that I have slowly been working on. I started out with a South facing array of 640 watts running to a Victron 100/30 cc with a cotek 1500 inverter, an Iota DLS battery charger and 4 crown CR 260 FLA batteries. My whole system is 24 volt. After suffering through a very long hot summer I decided to add a 400 watt East facing array along with a 15 amp Victron CC and a West facing 150 watt array running to a 10 amp Victron CC. Next spring I will either put in a small mini split or a 500 btu window unit and run it with careful load management. I use a BMV 712 and am in the process of adding volt amp meters for each array so I can better guage the individual performances of each array. Due to the fact that I am partially in a valley, I don't get the longest sun hours on the East and West arrays but in mid summer when I really want the power they get about 3 or 4 hours of sun each. I like my cedar trees so I don't plan on cutting any of them down even though I could gain a bit more juice if I did.