Posted by m II on June 28, 2010, 2:33 am
>>
>> Should be a simple concept. Solar cells, battery,
>> power switcher/controller.
>>
> I play this mental game also. Heck, I've already got a couple hundred
> watts of PV panels and the batteries installed with a charge controller.
> But even then, it STILL makes no economic or practical sense for me to try
> to actually run any 110 VAC loads on a daily basis. So I just run some 12
> volt lighting with my system.
> If you WERE to do what you are thinking, one of those small grid-tie
> inverters would be the way to go. Forget the batteries.
> Vaughn
What do you have against a good set of batteries that will last 20 or 30
years?
Not the cheap crap you morons like you buy.
Mike
Posted by m II on June 28, 2010, 10:28 am
to beg attention with:
>>
>>>
>>> Should be a simple concept. Solar cells, battery,
>>> power switcher/controller.
>>>
>> I play this mental game also. Heck, I've already got a couple hundred
>> watts of PV panels and the batteries installed with a charge controller.
>> But even then, it STILL makes no economic or practical sense for me to try
>> to actually run any 110 VAC loads on a daily basis. So I just run some 12
>> volt lighting with my system.
>>
>> If you WERE to do what you are thinking, one of those small grid-tie
>> inverters would be the way to go. Forget the batteries.
>>
>> Vaughn
>>
>What do you have against a good set of batteries that will last 20 or 30
>years?
>Not the cheap crap you morons like you buy.
>John
Of course you being both a moron and cheap
have nothing to offer as example.
--
^not anyone YOU can pin down^
Posted by vaughn on June 28, 2010, 12:27 pm
> you morons
Bye
Vaughn
Posted by m II on June 28, 2010, 11:11 pm
vaughn wrote:
>>
>> you morons
>
> Bye
> Vaughn
>
>
Nothing to do with me. It's Gimmy Boob attempting to forge postings.
Check all the headers.
mike
Posted by Bill on June 27, 2010, 12:22 am
"danny burstein" wrote in message
> Ok, the payback time is probably two or three centuries, but
> I'd like to at leat think about this.
> Situation: I've got an apartment whose main power use is
> a manual defrost freezer, pulling about 90 watts when in
> use and running about 1/3 of the time. In other words, the
> total monthly kw-hr usage is something like 25 kw-hr when I'm
> not around (and more, of course, when there).
> I can put about 30 square feet of solar cells outside
> the window, which would get me something or another...
> So what I'd like to do is get some sort of "a/b switch"
> which will feed the freezer from the battery bank when
> it's charged up, or from the utility line at other times.
> Should be a simple concept. Solar cells, battery,
> power switcher/controller.
> Obviously such stuff is out there, but I'm blanking on
> the search term for this controller.
Actually it is not so dumb from a financial point of view. For the last 10
years I have been sinking a LOT of money into energy saving things. Anything
I can think of.
And for the last 9 years (skip the last year), people have been telling me
how foolish I am because I could get a better return on my money with
investments...
Well I now have an electric bill of around $2 a month and some of those
"smart investors" now have about $00,000.00 less in their investment
accounts.
I think I'd rather be "dumb" and "foolish"! (No comments out of these people
in the last year or so...)
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>> Should be a simple concept. Solar cells, battery,
>> power switcher/controller.
>>
> I play this mental game also. Heck, I've already got a couple hundred
> watts of PV panels and the batteries installed with a charge controller.
> But even then, it STILL makes no economic or practical sense for me to try
> to actually run any 110 VAC loads on a daily basis. So I just run some 12
> volt lighting with my system.
> If you WERE to do what you are thinking, one of those small grid-tie
> inverters would be the way to go. Forget the batteries.
> Vaughn