Solar powered shed setup UK

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Uploaded by on Feb 11, 2010

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This is my first attempt at setting up a solar system at home. It is based in my dads shed and has the following characteristics:

12v, 70Ah Deep cycle battery
20W Monocrystaline panel
300W Mains Inverter
12v/20w CFL

In future it will be upgraded to have a 100-200w Panel & 1-2000w inverter.

Please comment, this set-up is in Wales, Uk and cost a total of about £200 to do.

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  • Hi I have the same charge controller,does your charge light go out when your battery is fully charged

  • @RoadWarsOnSky1

    No, this charge controller (which we have since replaced) used to simply sit a 2/3 bars on the battery chart at all times.

  • @hippyraverocker

    No I dont mean the battery lights, I mean the green charge light.Mine flickers and goes out.does yours do that?

  • @RoadWarsOnSky1

    Ah, yes I believe that mine does this too if the battery is left with zero load on it.

  • how good is that charge controller for the price

  • @rccarmadben

    For the price it works perfectly fine. It does not have the same efficiency as an MPPT controller but is fine for a starter system.

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  • What happens when the battery is full?  Do you have to dump current somewhere in the system?

  • @TorchwoodElectrics

    Hi Torchwood, it goes down about 5ft.

  • @hippyraverocker thanks

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