Timmaahhh
New Member
First, I want to thank Will for his dedication to testing, reviewing, and making information readily available to us.
I have wanted to start a solar setup since buying property in East Texas, but 3 years ago, things were not nearly as refined as they are today, and waiting 4 months for cells, and building my own packs and having 15 different electronic control boxes from various venders just did not seem to make sense at the time. With the recent products released, and the "relatively" affordable costs of the server batteries, I have decided to go forward with starting my system.
My initial goal is not to be completely self reliant, but I do want to be able to not have my power go out once every month when the weather is angry here. As I work from home, and am pretty rural, having the power go out not only makes working very hard, but it also kills my cell service, and that makes everything kind of difficult.
I went in to SS, as they are only an hour away from me, just to ask some questions, and maybe pick up either a battery, or an inverter, but mainly to ask a few questions. In the end, my setup will be solar for the main house, 2 remote trailers as *guest houses*, and a 40x40 shop with pretty heavy requirements for equipment. My initial goal is to just cut down on a portion of power consumption for the main house and add on as I can afford.
My initial setup will be as follows:
EG4 6000EK * split phase 6k inverter*
EG4 EG4 life power 48v server rack batteries x2
Canadian Solar 355v panels x10 (9 for service, 1 as a spare)
SS 6 bay battery rack
I will be running this system configured in the solar/battery/grid configuration. Having 2 mini splits, and currently having electric stove/dryer/water heater, I think this will be the best way to start. I will be changing to gas stove, tankless hot water heater, and dryer as some of the other projects get done. But this is just to get me where for the time being, when I lose power from a storm, or from scheduled maint, I am still able to work, run AC/Heat, and continue to function.
The goal is to purchase batteries in pairs as I am able to afford them, and look for deals on panels. I will basically be covering the entire roof of the 40x40 building, and add inverters *guessing I will buy 2 or 4 EG4 6500ex Single phase inverters to setup the shop and branch off to the rest of the property as I can afford.
I think between having Propane for heating/cooking needs, and a 24KW system with supporting batteries, I should be mostly self sufficient with about 20k investment and some hard work. I may also make both of the trailers their own independent systems as one is 50 amp single phase hook up, and the other is 30 amp single phase. I can get away with maybe going with the 3k inverters, one in each, a few panels, and smaller batteries outfitted where the original marine batteries live in those.
When I finally build my house *approx 1200sqft, it will be constructed with solar in mind, extensive insulation, and as much low voltage lighting/appliances as I can do.
I will document/vid every step of the way, and happily accept any input from all here. I hope to be an active member on this forum! Thank you all
I have wanted to start a solar setup since buying property in East Texas, but 3 years ago, things were not nearly as refined as they are today, and waiting 4 months for cells, and building my own packs and having 15 different electronic control boxes from various venders just did not seem to make sense at the time. With the recent products released, and the "relatively" affordable costs of the server batteries, I have decided to go forward with starting my system.
My initial goal is not to be completely self reliant, but I do want to be able to not have my power go out once every month when the weather is angry here. As I work from home, and am pretty rural, having the power go out not only makes working very hard, but it also kills my cell service, and that makes everything kind of difficult.
I went in to SS, as they are only an hour away from me, just to ask some questions, and maybe pick up either a battery, or an inverter, but mainly to ask a few questions. In the end, my setup will be solar for the main house, 2 remote trailers as *guest houses*, and a 40x40 shop with pretty heavy requirements for equipment. My initial goal is to just cut down on a portion of power consumption for the main house and add on as I can afford.
My initial setup will be as follows:
EG4 6000EK * split phase 6k inverter*
EG4 EG4 life power 48v server rack batteries x2
Canadian Solar 355v panels x10 (9 for service, 1 as a spare)
SS 6 bay battery rack
I will be running this system configured in the solar/battery/grid configuration. Having 2 mini splits, and currently having electric stove/dryer/water heater, I think this will be the best way to start. I will be changing to gas stove, tankless hot water heater, and dryer as some of the other projects get done. But this is just to get me where for the time being, when I lose power from a storm, or from scheduled maint, I am still able to work, run AC/Heat, and continue to function.
The goal is to purchase batteries in pairs as I am able to afford them, and look for deals on panels. I will basically be covering the entire roof of the 40x40 building, and add inverters *guessing I will buy 2 or 4 EG4 6500ex Single phase inverters to setup the shop and branch off to the rest of the property as I can afford.
I think between having Propane for heating/cooking needs, and a 24KW system with supporting batteries, I should be mostly self sufficient with about 20k investment and some hard work. I may also make both of the trailers their own independent systems as one is 50 amp single phase hook up, and the other is 30 amp single phase. I can get away with maybe going with the 3k inverters, one in each, a few panels, and smaller batteries outfitted where the original marine batteries live in those.
When I finally build my house *approx 1200sqft, it will be constructed with solar in mind, extensive insulation, and as much low voltage lighting/appliances as I can do.
I will document/vid every step of the way, and happily accept any input from all here. I hope to be an active member on this forum! Thank you all
