Most of the switches SHOULD be fairly efficient. TP Link Omada targeted towards small-medium businesses. The big one (16 port) is fiber only. There’s another 8 port POE that will have a handful of cameras, local Wi-Fi etc.
No such thing as "efficient" in the same sense as power conversion equipment. My point was that 100% of the electrical power delivered to the equipment is turned into heat.
Servers will be as low power as I can make them. One synology dedicated to cameras, one or two storage units on late Gen Intel I3 or I5 running with drive spin down enabled, and maybe later a video rendering server on a high tier desktop processor or a smaller thread ripper and lower power graphics card and all SSD but will be wake on LAN (deep sleep mode) for video ingest (YouTube video creation) and short term storage.
How many watts consumed in the shed?
The system will power a 36x48 foot shop with wood working stuff and temp living quarters, my mom’s house, and possibly another (future) business building and my house (until we start running close to max current and amps, then I’ll build another system).
What is the highest continuous wattage consumed outside the shed?
Shed is partial shaded (dappled) but has a 8x10 insulated garage door (and I’m going to build a removable wall in front of that for more insulation.
Yes, poorly insulated portions might be improved with an airtight insulated panel behind. Maybe foil coated board to reflect heat back, especially if door exposed to sun. (That would be inside door). Or, walls outside I think is what you describe.
Electronics will last longer kept cool and dry. Batteries, too. Lithium are pretty efficient so shouldn't add much heat.
It’s this shed/system:
Here’s some photos of my install so for. First we have the panel mounts. It’s three separate Sinclair Skymounts 2.0 that will hold seventy two 375 watt panels with twelve each in series to produce just shy of 600v each string on an extremely cold/sunny day. I split the mounts into three to...
diysolarforum.com
I think the trees will shade pretty well, especially with leaves.
Does it get very hot inside?
How about just forced ventilation, no A/C? The SMA equipment can probably handle that just fine.
Batteries may benefit from cooling. How about the computer stuff? If you do use A/C, maybe blow cool air of batteries with thermostat to keep them at optimum temperature and rest of equipment gets the benefit too, while dumping their heat to the room.
Think about heat sources in a closed space is the air recirculates and they keep getting warmer and warmer. Sealed room needs to be large enough that surface area conducts the heat to the outside.
Could draw outside air into inlet. Or exhaust outlet to outside. Or pass exhaust air through a heat exchanger, dumping its heat outside before recirculating inside (to avoid drawing in moisture.)
If exhaust air is hot, imagine putting that through a radiator outside, then feeding to an A/C and back into room.
