Hello everyone,
My wife and I are building an off-grid home in the U.P, of Michigan, and the way things are looking, it appears that the solar array would need to be roughly 700feet from the house. I am going with the assumption that putting the batteries and such near the array and running AC to the house is going to be extremely expensive. I also would rather have the equipment in the house. I see they make 600V charge controllers, would that be the way to go? I assume that if I need a fairly sizable system (we plan on running AC and other normal household appliances), that I would just need to find a happy medium in configuring the array to ensure I'm not going over 600V per? I'm also assuming I would need a few of the charge controllers to meet the needs.
Anyway, I just wanted to see if the way I am thinking about this is correct?
My wife and I are building an off-grid home in the U.P, of Michigan, and the way things are looking, it appears that the solar array would need to be roughly 700feet from the house. I am going with the assumption that putting the batteries and such near the array and running AC to the house is going to be extremely expensive. I also would rather have the equipment in the house. I see they make 600V charge controllers, would that be the way to go? I assume that if I need a fairly sizable system (we plan on running AC and other normal household appliances), that I would just need to find a happy medium in configuring the array to ensure I'm not going over 600V per? I'm also assuming I would need a few of the charge controllers to meet the needs.
Anyway, I just wanted to see if the way I am thinking about this is correct?