Hello, as title says does anyone have a setup of a standalone electrical system? I was thinking of using solar panels and some sort of battery to hold the power when the sun is down. i know its not as simple as it sounds and thats why im asking if anyone has done so and succeeded.
If you can get solar panels for $1 per watt just remeber that you probably need an additional $2 per watt for wiring(giant DC cables) charge controllers, switches, panels, inverters) and then you need to fasten it and structure ect.
If you get 12kw worth of solar panels what would you get what , panels are rated for the 5% of the time they are facing the perfect angle every other time they are wayyyy less than 15% eff or whatever so right away drop it by 20% then storing loses 15-20% redrawing it loses another x% time stored is a loss, line loss ect of man what do you get from 12kw of solar panels what like 6kwh per day with 12 hours of sun 6kwh can run a single 1000w bulf for 6 hours with no fans so dude with a million dollar setup maybe you could run a 400w light 18 hours a day.
heres another angle if you need 50w per sq ft off the top of my head a sqft dfelivers about 110w of energy from the sun at peak and they are at max 17% eff so every sq ft of panels will produce 19w about a third of most days so with 100% perfect panels with full sun everyday and no loss of equipement you need a very large surface area of solar panels than growing space I almost think [aying diesel fuel eveyday would save you money upfront AND in the long run
I was in to this stuff a while ago and it's sad about how non vialable it actually is most of the time, my numbe3rs might be wrong off thew top of my head but the point is prob not worh it.
EDIT: Oh and we never even got into batterie banks!! So add that to the list of expenses.