Solar powered shed setup UK - Usage update

This is a little update I took on my new video phone. We are now making more power than we use, so have a wire running into the house to run items up to 300w such as a fan. Next upgrades are a bigger normal inverter to run a mower from the system, we will also be getting a grid-tie inverter to wire to the house that can be switched to bypass the batteries and use just the panels when the batteries are fully charged.

So when the batteries are low, they charge...when full the power gets directed to our in-house grid.

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[hippyraverocker]

Hi, thanks for the comments so far. We will probably fit one 300w gti, mainly as the panels only total 100w officially. So basically on a day where the battery side of the system is fully charged I can flip a switch and pass the panels power through a gti and onto the house. That way the panels are always working for us.

[mrbuki77]

5 Stars!!! You seem to be headed in the same direction I did. I is well worth the investment to get a GTI. I would suggest if you need more than a 300watt GTI, you get 2 300watt GTIs, instead of the 600watt GTI. The larger GTIs are not as good, and if it fails, you loose all power to the mains in the home. Keep the info coming. Later from sunny FL!

[mjlorton]

Excellent, great to see it working for you. I'm keen to know what grid tied inverter you will be considering?