{"id":418,"date":"2018-01-08T22:11:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T22:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2019-01-28T05:04:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T05:04:07","slug":"solar-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Solar stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar: still try to use the deep-cycle battery bought from Walmart on Dec\/2012, probably not holding charge too good. Bought a 100W panel from Amazon (Renogy) and a Xantrex 2000W sin-wave inverter. Use biz to finance this project as a solar backup server. Will likely buy 2 Trojan T105 6V batteries to replace the generic deep cycle. Update: ended up using 2x Costco GC2 6-volt battery since Feb 2015. Pretty much dead by Feb 2019, likely because discharged too low a few times (summer was fine, problem is cloudy days during winter, inverter shut down, then tried direct USB, which also drain batteries. @todo replace w\/ 4x Costco GC2 6volt to get about 400Ah.<\/p>\n<p>Power power usage of some USB devices:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Blink Module: 0.1amp (0.46 watt @5V)<br \/>\n&#8211; Cell phone charging (Moto G4): around 1 &#8211; 1.5amp<br \/>\n&#8211; Yi Camera: 0.25amp<br \/>\n&#8211; Amazon Echo dot:<br \/>\n&#8211; Google mini: 0.25amp<br \/>\n&#8211; Wifi hotspot Dlink DWR330: 0.25amp<\/p>\n<p>4x 6-volt battery config:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altwindpower.com\/images\/battery-series-parallel\/6-volt-series-parallel-4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sizing panel + battery: charging rate 10% (rule of thumb 5% to 13%)<br \/>\n225Ah x 2 x 12V x 10% x 1.2 = 648W<br \/>\n&#8211; Usage: 1 hotspot, 2 cameras, 1 blink module<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jan 6, 2019 update: battery too low, controller shut off, will need to recharge battery manually w\/ generator. Wonder if because hooking up to the inverter (ghost load) or just becoz cloudy and rain w\/o sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Llagas Well Pump: &#8211; installed 11\/14\/2012<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grundflos 16S10-10<\/li>\n<li>Motor: Franklin Electric 4&#8243; 650Lb thrust<\/li>\n<li>9Amps, 1HP, 230V, 1 phase, 3 wire<\/li>\n<li>20GPM<\/li>\n<li>Pressure tank: Flexcon IC266, switch 40 psi cut-in, 60 psi cut-out<\/li>\n<li>Well: 5&#8243; inside diameter, 300&#8242; depth, depth of standing water: 48&#8242;, pump setting: 160&#8242;, drop pipe size: 1.25 sch 80 PVC w\/ SS couplings, wire: #10 flat jacket w\/ ground<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar: still try to use the deep-cycle battery bought from Walmart on Dec\/2012, probably not holding charge too good. Bought a 100W panel from Amazon (Renogy) and a Xantrex 2000W sin-wave inverter. Use biz to finance this project as a solar backup server. Will likely buy 2 Trojan T105 6V batteries to replace the generic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}