Can't see why you would need an air-con shed for batteries, as long as they are in the shade and well ventilated. Anyway, you know your situation.
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Can't see why you would need an air-con shed for batteries, as long as they are in the shade and well ventilated. Anyway, you know your situation.
You don't need an airconditioned shed for the batteries. It will prolong the battery life, and avoid the fact that you may some of the time be operating outside the maximum temperature of the batteries' maker's specification. But provided the battery shed is set up so that it does not get a heat buildup it should not be necessary (insulation of roof and walls that the sun may shine on plus good ventilation). While a shorter battery life is not good, you have to balance this against the very considerable extra size of installation needed to aircondition it.
If you are going to be running a sizable solar array and a 100kva/110kva genset you will need to build a substation anyway to control and distribute all that power to the various buildings you intend to power up and the batteries can also be stored in the substation, These are nearly always air conditioned.
I wonder if batteries could do enough to run the refrigeration at night, resting the generators, which could then be used with the solar to recharge plus run everything during the day. Adding batteries to the mix might give more options. But it needs advice from experts, which I'm definitely not.
With all this whinging about living in the boonies, spare a sympathetic thought for Rick, who until recently lived in the deepest boonies, Canberra!
I don't think that Rick would have needed to stress himself over the need to have his batteries in and air conditioned environment in Canberra [bigwhistle]Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
Personally I would Much rather live under canvass in the gulf than in a mansion in Bloody Canberra [biggrin]
Two years and three months of my life I'll never get back Ian!Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
Ah off the grid indeed, like 6.5 m liter of diesel p.aQuote:
Originally Posted by trout1105
When talking gennies make sure the radiator is rated to handle your summer temps, i've been caught
And an open shed with an insulated roof, like aircell, helps
Batteries, data, relics and rocks, amongst other things were kept chilled under my watch in the nations capital ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by trout1105
At 5:30am nne Saturday morning it was -8° and security at a certain government repository called as the 600kw chiller (air conditioning) had gone into fault.
I think I mumbled something about opening the ****ing doors!