Hi, my first message so please go easy. I've offered to design and install an off grid 12V lighting system at an animal rescue I support because the local mayor refuses to give us 220V, it's a steep learning curve but I like to think I'm getting there, slowly!
There's one issue that I've come across while searching and I'm not sure how much this may affect things. The shelter is in rural Greece and situated under 7x400kV lines, there's another set of 7 cables about 50M away to the south. At first I thought the only issue might be a little shadowing from the lines across the road but then I discovered a report about the magnetic field from HV lines reducing the efficiency of PV panels. Apart from this one report I can't find any practical experiences of it happening or any hard and fast figures.
I wonder if this is something somewhere here has come across and if so how bad the problem actually is. I'd like to think I could just increase the amount of panels and storage to compensate if this is a real issue as each system will only have 8x10W LED floods on it.
Paul
There's one issue that I've come across while searching and I'm not sure how much this may affect things. The shelter is in rural Greece and situated under 7x400kV lines, there's another set of 7 cables about 50M away to the south. At first I thought the only issue might be a little shadowing from the lines across the road but then I discovered a report about the magnetic field from HV lines reducing the efficiency of PV panels. Apart from this one report I can't find any practical experiences of it happening or any hard and fast figures.
I wonder if this is something somewhere here has come across and if so how bad the problem actually is. I'd like to think I could just increase the amount of panels and storage to compensate if this is a real issue as each system will only have 8x10W LED floods on it.
Paul