Energy Anybody know anything about solar systems?

Another vote for keeping your batteries properly charged. Did you buy additional panels?

 

We Use math & hydrometers & a DVM , Don't go against what was written in copper . LEARN ! It's friggin EZ !
killing your cells slowly as many do , Your the norm till you self learn .

We have an Island up here that is not grid fed . Black as night because they all have been sold the junk & math was never involved .
WET Coast of Canada is what needs the math days to decide . Rain has clouds ,, Who-da-Thunk ? so they are all in your boat .

Get YOURSELF tools & Learn if you want to live this way . It's EZ , spend time on yourself !
Sloth

 

Thanks G
Im not being a Shithead , BUT !!
Believe in YOURSELF & WE CAN HELP
20-80 bucks MAX , Better quality you will win in the long time.

 

Wait. We're supposed to reconcile checkbooks?

It's okay, we still love ya, Shithead.

 

Is THAT why I can't get it to work in Hawaii???

 

Thanks to everyone's advice, I'm going to buy a used generator. There are 83 listed on CL on this island.
Here's a link: hawaii for sale "generator" - craigslist

Suggestions? I have no idea what to look for. Would $300 max get me an okay gennie?

 

MS LiIk
Portable Solar Generator

Thats a DEAL , Classic with a magnum full wave & a panel !!!

This is nice to see : DCX3000 36/48 volt DC Generator

Not for you Ms Lilk
And I don't see anything in your power group from CL on the link you posted .
A gen set needs a battery maintainer or a real CLEAN charger , NOT a crappy one that will kill the batterys & stuff your using.
AC Ripple is a killer on DC items !

Sloth

 

Or build your own variable speed DC generator with a medium duty truck alternator and horizontal shaft gasoline or diesel engine, run it at any speed you want, 1,000 to 3,600rpm what ever you need.
$300 could buy you something decent but could end up buying some one else's problem.

A DC generator would cost how ever cheaply you could find an engine and proper alternator and pullies. Could be around $300.

 

I say medium duty truck alt because I know it works, I have not tried using a much cheaper and easier to find 10si or 12si serries alt. A CS serries alt should work.

 

Maybe contact the people with the ad to buy broken Honda gensets. I bought one of two Honda EU20i's back in March, here in Cambodia. (For you, it would be an EU2000i.) I wouldn't trade 'em for anything. New, I paid $888 each. Not sure what you could get a used / repaired one for, there. The EU2000i will have a built in 12vdc charging circuit, in case you need to top up batteries. Not sure how many amperes output, though, as I have never used mine for that purpose.

 

The Honda 1000 / 2000 watt inverter is a 10 AMP 12Vdc output on its 12 Vdc side (Useless ) So Now we need a Iota battery maintainer of a 15 amp & thats 300 bucks & can use the GAS to run the engine that makes ac power from the genset & now plug in a Iota 15 amp battery maintainer
Then the gas has changed 3 times for DC power !!
Sloth

 

In that case, it makes me very happy that I didn't purchase these things for their 12vdc outputs.

 

If you've not got much sun, than wind is another course.
$500. 600 watts came with it's own controller .
Had this one 5 years or so and hasn't failed yet.
I have wind but not steady 20 MPH value.
It's mounted on my shop trailer along with my solar and battery bank .
My feeling is, that if , when I move it all goes with me.
And should I move to some where there is less sun and more wind , I'm covered. I ,may get a second .
Being prepared doesn't mean all those kinds of investments pay all at once , they pay when things get tough, and I've been there done that.
I bet most of you have guns that cost significantly more, and don't use every day, much less hunt with every day.
Some of you that claim poverty , I've been poor but I had invested in solar when I was working , before things went south for a while. And this investment paid off big for me and my family.

 

What is your dump load?

 

@arleigh
Your saying that wind turbine is internal regulated so no charge controller or brake load ?
Explain your setup plz, Start another thread because this one still needs help
Sloth