Your guide to smart, optimal, self-sufficient energy.
Your guide to smart, optimal, self-sufficient energy.
Unlike circuit breakers, if a fuse blows you’ll have to replace it. And since replacing parts every other day is the last you need, you’ll have to size your fuse in a way that it only blows if your system is at risk. However, if the fuse is…
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…
The size of the inverter you need to run a TV depends on the amount of power that the TV uses, which itself, depends on the size and type of the TV. For example, will a 400-watt inverter run a tv? Yes, a 400-watt inverter can probably run…
There are many types and sizes of TVs, so, if the question is “how many watts does a tv use?”, the answer is “it depends on the TV”. However, there are a couple of ways to determine the power usage (watts) of your TV, as well as its…
The amount of solar power that you need to run your grow lights can be calculated using the daily energy consumption of your grow lights, and the amount of sunlight that you receive in your location. However, in addition to the solar panels, you will also need the…
A 7kW rating on a solar system means that the system is potentially capable of producing 7 kilowatts (7000 watts) of power at a given moment. But this amount of power production is not guaranteed and would require a certain amount of sunlight to happen. In other words,…
