Thread: POWER or the Joy of Living Remote.

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!

Originally Posted by V8Ian

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
Personally I would Much rather live under canvass in the gulf than in a mansion in Bloody Canberra

Originally Posted by V8Ian

With all this whinging about living in the boonies, spare a sympathetic thought for Rick, who until recently lived in the deepest boonies, Canberra!

Two years and three months of my life I'll never get back Ian!

Originally Posted by trout1105

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
Personally I would Much rather live under canvass in the gulf than in a mansion in Bloody Canberra

Ah off the grid indeed, like 6.5 m liter of diesel p.a
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