Hello fellow Yooper
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I built a solar box for my batteries, inverter, SCC and combiner box. All fits good. The battery box is insulated and heated. 24volts/300ah , much smaller then yours.
After doing this for a friend and I , I thought I might risk it and started building an in house battery and found that I could fit two of them in the same box to have 560ah if wished.
For now it’s just one 8s. Doing the home battery build saves more then 600$ over the low cost manufsctured cells and I added low temp charge disconnect. Good to have just in case. Most batteries even the low cost ones do not have low temp charge disconnect. Those that do have low charge/discharge amps and cost 200-400$ more
. Over priced!!!!
My solar box is only 3’x3’x4.5’- holds it all easy and cost me about $250 in materials. Thought of a shed but big and pricy and takes up too much clearing space for me.
I am building my solar panel rack now. I have two designs for 4 to 6 panels. I’m mounting 4 now and will see if more may be needed???? One design is out of metal and the other option is of 4x4 treated posts both single axis tilt. 0. To 65degrees.
I will post a number of pictures to allow you to get an idea of how I’m approaching my build. BTW-a nieghbor and friend is upgrading his off grid Solar about .5 mi away. The creek flows by his place too
he is Doing near same set up. We both require about 1800 watts per day 1.8 kWh use. We both decided to get small wall mount ac units for hot summer days. No power issue as when it’s hot and sunny there is far more power then needed so ac is good.
He is taking down a Windura 750 wind turbine that he has had for about 8 years.
It did ok but at 60’ just not high enough for best power and the ground space he wants for other things. Also only about 10 % of his power from it. He has an 800 watt panel set up now but is upgrading to 4-445 watt bifacials also. Moving from useless 24 volt. 400 ah FLA batteries ( real world 140 ah in winter if healthy) to 300ah lithium. The batteries sucked! Degraded so fast! After three years measured ah capacity is about 40!!!!! Cold crapped on them! Out they go!!!!!
With the lithium in a heated box all is good.
In any case, I’ll explain the pics I post here:
Canadian Solar 445 bifacial - one of 4. (Oops that is the 390 watt I found on eBay).
Vertical heated battery box with heat pads for my needs. Can hold 2-280ah 8s batteries.
Horizontal type box with heat pads. For friend. Holds 2-300 ah 12 volt in series for 24volts.
Solar box with battery box slipped in bottom, this will be next to my solar array for camp build until done then all components go into camp. Victron Multiplus inverter.
Creek I’m building my camp on with a 70x80 clearing. Perfect south facing location for panels.