Your guide to smart, optimal, self-sufficient energy.
Your guide to smart, optimal, self-sufficient energy.
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,…
With the right weather and enough sunlight, at a given moment, a 10kW solar system is capable of producing 10 kilowatts, which is a substantial amount of power. However, what you pay for at the end of the month, and what really matters, is not Power (kW), but…
A 12kW solar system is a relatively large system and would produce a relatively high amount of energy. However, the exact amount of energy that a 12kW solar system produces would depend on the amount of sunlight that it receives. The amount of sunlight that a solar panel…
