Question by tucher87: How many solar panels with one wind generator would you need to power a pop up?
I am looking at buying a pop up and would like to make it run off of deep cycle batteries but charging these batteries I would like to use a combination of solar panels and 1 wind generator. How many batteries would I need how many solar panels and what wind generator should I buy. I would be powering the lights an fridge and sometimes a AC or Heater.
Thanks
I live in west Texas where it never rains and its always windy
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Answer by redsrule4500
Hope it’s not cloudy without wind for a while, you’ll be left with warm food and darkness.
An air conditioner/heater would be such a huge load on the system, wind/solar most likely don’t make sense for an individual, unless you’re on a lake or in California where it’s sunny everyday.
You would need around 200 W for a fridge, 100 W for small lights, and….500 W (?) for heating/air….so you’re looking at some pretty big batteries!! Every 2 hours you will use at least 1.5 kWh of energy.
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I’m not sure what a pop up is – is that like a camper or 5th wheel? Those are poorly insulated, and I would think very energy intensive to heat or cool. If it were me, I’d take cooling from that never-ending wind, and when it got cold, just bundle up.
A wind turbine worth anything isn’t going to be portable. It needs a tower to be effective. But if you meant to have a permanent installation on your land, and have grid power today, I would continue to keep the grid connection, and tie your wind or solar generator to the grid with appropriate equipment. That’s going to be more cost-effective than batteries.
around 1.5 KW energy you would be needing for all this the area u described is not so much cloudy but make sure about you have sufficient knowledge about handling all this devices
If you use solar or wind to heat you will need wind and solar devices with high output. If you only need power for things such as lights your need would be a lot less. I would recommend starting with a small system and working your way up. Some of the best wind generators and solar products that I’ve found are at:
http://www.hurricanewindpower.com/