Planning an off-grid solar vacation home in Baja and from reading on the forum it seems like the MPP Solar lvx 6048 is highly thought of. Plan would be to parallel two of them to support 120/240 service and a solar array of about 10-15 kw and battery capacity of about 20-30kw. The sun is fairly constant year round in Baja so I don’t anticipate many days where I wouldn’t be able to charge the batteries back up to 100% but it might be a good plan to have a back up generator. The mpp site suggests using inverter generators as the power is cleaner. They provide the following specs for the generator to be compatible:
I hate to put in something overly large as I think it will get very little use and if we do run into times with little sun we can decrease our energy use (it’s a vacation home). Does anyone have any real world experience with using back up generator with these mpp solar units? Another alternative would of course be to increase battery bank size or use a solar generator (ie separate additional battery) in case primary battery bank has issues. Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated!
TIA,
Lori
I hate to put in something overly large as I think it will get very little use and if we do run into times with little sun we can decrease our energy use (it’s a vacation home). Does anyone have any real world experience with using back up generator with these mpp solar units? Another alternative would of course be to increase battery bank size or use a solar generator (ie separate additional battery) in case primary battery bank has issues. Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated!
TIA,
Lori