Your guide to smart, optimal, self-sufficient energy.
Your guide to smart, optimal, self-sufficient energy.
The size of the inverter that you need will mainly depend on 2 factors: The power usage and type of appliances you’re trying to run on the inverter. The specs of your battery bank. In this article, I explain how these factors come into play, and I discuss…
Assuming you want to charge the battery on a daily basis, there are a couple of factors that determine the amount of solar power needed to charge a 100Ah battery: The amount of energy (in Watt-hours) that you take out of the battery on a daily basis. The…
There are a few factors that determine how long it would take to charge a 100Ah battery with a 200W solar panel. In this article, I thoroughly explain these factors, and I provide a few steps that you can take to get as much of an accurate estimate…
There are a couple of factors that determine how long a 100Ah battery lasts: The energy consumption of the devices you’re trying to run. The type of the 100Ah battery and how much of its capacity is actually usable. After reading this comprehensive article, you’ll know exactly why…
This article explains in detail how you can determine the amount of time for which you can run a 400W appliance on a 100Ah battery (both lithium or lead-acid). Before I get into it, there are a couple of variables that are relevant here and that you should…
In this article, I discuss the amount of time that a 100ah battery could run an appliance that requires 100 watts of power. As you’ll come to find out after reading this article, this comes down to 2 simple steps: Determining the amount of energy (in Watt-hours) that…
Compared to other appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioners, TVs don’t use a lot of electricity and can run for hours on a single 12V-100Ah battery. However, there are a couple of factors that determine exactly how long that is. In this article, I will discuss these…
I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post. Although they consume a relatively high amount of energy, it is possible to run air conditioners on a battery bank and solar. The question is, how much battery power do you need to run an air conditioner?…
Air conditioners are generally big energy consumers, especially the ones with high capacity. So, it can be a little challenging to run them on batteries and solar. Relatively speaking, a 5000 BTU unit doesn’t consume a crazy amount of energy. Running these air conditioners on batteries and solar…
I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post. Air conditioners have a huge power draw and usually run for hours, which makes them the most energy-consuming appliance in your RV. This means it won’t be cheap to run your RV AC on battery power alone.…
