I'm brand new to solar and am getting confused.
I am trying to figure out what my needs are to power my home (renting an apartment) if the power goes out (which it does frequently where I live).
So, let's just start with the fridge. I understand I need to buy a Kill A Watt to get the most accurate info, but just to validate if things are even in my current budget, I'm trying to ballpark things. If the label on the fridge reads 110-137 VAC 60 HZ 11.6 AMPS, does that mean it's 1276 Watts (110 * 11.6)? And then I read somewhere that a fridge usually runs for about 8 hours a day so that would mean 10208 watt hours needed, which in turn would mean I would roughly need 25K watt hour battery capacity and 4K watt solar array?
This is of course all assuming all of the data from the energy audit spreadsheet based on where I live.
Are my calculations correct/am I missing something?
I am trying to figure out what my needs are to power my home (renting an apartment) if the power goes out (which it does frequently where I live).
So, let's just start with the fridge. I understand I need to buy a Kill A Watt to get the most accurate info, but just to validate if things are even in my current budget, I'm trying to ballpark things. If the label on the fridge reads 110-137 VAC 60 HZ 11.6 AMPS, does that mean it's 1276 Watts (110 * 11.6)? And then I read somewhere that a fridge usually runs for about 8 hours a day so that would mean 10208 watt hours needed, which in turn would mean I would roughly need 25K watt hour battery capacity and 4K watt solar array?
This is of course all assuming all of the data from the energy audit spreadsheet based on where I live.
Are my calculations correct/am I missing something?