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I have a motorcycling associate in Arizona who's built a "bunkhouse" for traveling bikers. They live 3 miles off the main line, and decided not to tie in, but run a closed system.
Rather than direct you to a thread on another forum, filled with all sorts of other junk, I'm clipping the relevant part here...
Rather than direct you to a thread on another forum, filled with all sorts of other junk, I'm clipping the relevant part here...
Our home in the Arizona white mountains is 100% solar powered.
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8 120 watt panels on a tracker that follows the sun all day and 4 80 watt panels on a fixed mount on the roof of the workshop, provides 5 to 8 KWH of power per day depending.
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The panels charge a bank of 8 6 volt Rolls S-530 Lead Acid Batteries wired to a 48 volt configuration. The battery charge regulator is an Outback MX 60, looks to be the same as yours, The Inverter is a Zantrax 55-48, ie 5500 watts at 120 VAC continous out with 48 VDC in. Surge capability is 9,000 watts out.
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This shows the 1/2 HP house pump that keeps a constant 48-55 PSI water pressure in the house and the MC B&Bat all times. The power from this set up powers and provides water to the house the MC B&B and the workshop. We have been 100% off grid since '96, out of necessity as grid power is 3 miles away. We started with a small system origionally with the 4 80 W panels and have added to the system thru the years. Damn rite it is expensive and we have had no financial from the gov. what so ever.
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