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It’s a good time to be getting into solar, kit has come down in price quite a bit in price, apart from batteries that is, but I would seriously think about upgrading from Lead Acid to Lithium Iron, a drop in replacement 100Ah LiFeP04 will give you more capacity than a 120Ah LA battery, and last ten times longer.
I have just bought a 120Ah LA battery, but will be going for a 100Ah LiFeP04 when funds allow, I added to that a 600 watt inverter, so now have a mini power station.
I can run a 550 watt kettle of my little system, which is great for of grid use, and takes about 6 minutes to get to a rolling boil from cold for 500 mls of water, and that takes about 5% out of my battery.
A great kettle for use with a solar system is the Bestron AWK810, just 500watt, but not easy to get hold of in the U.K. believe me as I have tried.
I fitted a battery monitor, £28 from China, which keeps you informed on the battery capacity, you should not run a LA battery to below 50%, otherwise you will seriously shorten it’s life or destroy it, with a LiFeP04 battery you can run it down to zero, due to in built BMS.
Next step is to get a couple of solar panels, so I am thinking 200 watt, with MPPT controller to feed the battery.
Check out Will Prowse on youtube, some really good info on small solar set ups.
Good luck with your project.
Post last edited on 25/06/2020 21:12:04
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