Today is the second day of full Sun and it's Great to get the batteries fully charged and to be able to use the Sun's energy. Yesterday and today we used/captured 4.5 kW each day. Some stored into the 4 battery bank and some used by the garage freezer, greenhouse fan, blender, box fan, backup refrigerator and the washing machine.
Our current system has 4, 6v batteries giving us 2 x 12v in parallel. We're just about ready to add 2 more batteries and increase our overnight and reserve capacity. We have 8 panels: 2x4 in series and parallel. I'd like to add 2 more 100 W panels to bring my capacity up to 1 kW and raise my Spring capture over 5 kW on a sunny day.
It's very satisfying to use energy from the solar system.
