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Hi Andy
Thank you for taking the time to present such an interesting post.
When alone at the other place I have one 85 watt panel, one 100 amp hour battery, a 750 watt four stroke Genny.
If the clouds set in one litre of petrol takes care of my needs.
There is a good charger and a cheap inverter.
When I started out I had 400 amp hour storage and another panel..I don't know what happened to it ..but like you say 12 vlt stuff was very expensive..I went 240 vlt for lights and instead of $70 for a 12 vlt fluo that lasted less than a year I picked up 240 vlt $6 table lamps at K mart.
No fridge. But small TV, DVD, ... I am very cheap to run.
You are right about the 48 vlts but that will cost $25k to $30k and frankly it would be inconvenient to spend that sort of money.... and the reason why I costed a 48 vlt system was that was so the daughter could have her games computer.
So I am happy to have been able to avoid an upgrade to 48 vlt.
And even the $6k I have spent on the new panels, box and batteries would have gone a long way in petrol.
I absolutely agree in coin operated electricity supply.
And the roll out of solar panels should have involved batteries ...they don't call them battery banks for nothing...you get out what you put in...pity the opportunity to educate folk about power consumption was lost right there.
We had a gas fridge in the early days which was a pain as moths would get attracted to the little flame.and stuff things up...the first you would know was black smoke out the tube and it was such a pain removing the soot.
When she left I got by without a fridge.
The next thing is the auto start for the genny .
I bought her a key.star Genny which is the night of luxury in my world..only $750
And folk think you are a nutty greenie by doing all this stuff but they don't understand the grid is not everywhere...I would love grid power here but its $500,000 away.
Again thank for your most interesting post.
Alex
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