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NoFederales Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 08:58 AM
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32. Figure your power load (watts) from the appliances you wish to use.
Edited on Mon Sep-24-07 09:00 AM by NoFederales
You cannot match a similarly sized panel system because of losses such as sunlight, temperature, other inefficiences. If you oversize the panel system 1.5 times your expected power load you can effectively charge a battery bank while using some appliances. You don't want to try to use all of your appliances at once, and big items like refrigerator/freezers and HVAC systems are huge electrical hogs. Iverters to change DC to AC can be expensive, but not nearly so much as trying to convert everything to DC.

Do some planning and ask more questions. Recommend going to knowledgepublications dot com for good info on all sorts of energy production.

Good luck.

NoFederales
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