#solar #diy #grownostr anyone have a solar panel setup that can run a normal fridge? Seems super useful in times of emergency.
If so, how many solar panels, batteries, inverter used. Would it be easier to just use a “solar generator” that has both battery and inverter?
I have an ecoflow delta setup, pretty sure you’d need some sort of battery setup in addition to the solar panels.
Jacob is correct. Measure the actual power requirement of the fridge. Then get the parts to build your own system. You will actually save money and not be tied to a system in which one oart fails, the entire system fails. I xm in east Texas and can help if you are close enough. Gregg County.
Makes sense, more of a modular setup. I’ll try to setup a test system using a pond pump. From there just need to scale up with panels battery. Just bought a watt tester to see the requirements from devices.
Get your variables:
Fridge wattage per hour
Any other powered devices wattage per hr
Then you can spec your solar kit.
-Battery Capacity
-Solar panel wattage/ quantity
-inverter size
A 1000 kwh per day fridge would need more than 5 200 watt-hour batteries to run each day, plus probably 300-400 watts of solar panels to charge them. That seems like a lot, but would be useful if you have the capacity.
I assume there is a YT channel for this sort of thing…but any good recommendations?
I’m not wanting to power a fridge per say, but would enjoy learning how to install solar and battery etc for (I’m in Florida and we get good sun):
1. renewable energy mining
2. backup for well pump
Which brings me to a bigger question:
Since by law solar panels can’t be more than ~20% efficient (I think it might be 30%)…is solar realistic?
Oh…and…in a perfect world whatever I do would be portable as I’d like to avoid
A: installing on roof
B. code enforcement / permitting
More like an efficient hobby or science experiment 😎
