Red Squirrel
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Years back I put 400w of solar panels on my shed, it was feeding a small battery and 350w inverter, and I always had the intention of upgrading that setup and mounting it on the wall so I can make it look decent, as it was just sitting on the ground.
So recently that's what I did. There is still work to be done as I want to run power to the house too, but it's more or less done now. I also have disconnects (using breakers as that was the easiest thing to find) to isolate different parts of the system such as solar power in, charge controller output, battery, and inverter.
I used to run a small ATV battery and now running 4 golf cart batteries as a 24v configuration. The solar panels are also setup as a 24v configuration.
I still want to add automation such as a low battery cut off that turns off circuits or even the whole inverter, and maybe stuff that can also be on a timer and/or only turn on when there is extra power. But for now it is done.
Pics here:
So recently that's what I did. There is still work to be done as I want to run power to the house too, but it's more or less done now. I also have disconnects (using breakers as that was the easiest thing to find) to isolate different parts of the system such as solar power in, charge controller output, battery, and inverter.
I used to run a small ATV battery and now running 4 golf cart batteries as a 24v configuration. The solar panels are also setup as a 24v configuration.
I still want to add automation such as a low battery cut off that turns off circuits or even the whole inverter, and maybe stuff that can also be on a timer and/or only turn on when there is extra power. But for now it is done.
Pics here: