Solar Energy Question

[ziggyross]

Does anyone know if one of the solar kits for A RV would produce enough energy to run a 1000 watt bulb for 12 hrs a day in ideal conditions? Even if it would produce half of the needed electricity I would think this would be great.:icon_smile:

 

[OGKushman]

To run a 1000 watt light 12 hours you would need storage batteries; power converters and inverters, a power controller, voltage regulator, new panel that totals the input/output for your reference, ~200 feet Romex, 3-4000 watts of solar panels (1000 watt panel does not see 12 hours of direct sun light)...
...about ~7,000-10,000$ of equipment.

 

[Roddy]

hXXp://www.spheralsolar.com/products/SUNRNR-Solar-Power-Kit-w%7B47%7DUS-inverter%2C-8D-battery%2C-and-solar-panel.html

What about something like this? Would this be able to run (1) 1000w light for 12 hours/day?

 

[kaotik]

sounds decent..but i still doubt it'd be good enough

i just don't think we're quite there yet with the solar cells we have. they're very inefficient (if that's possible for something providing 'free' power ) . they only produce like 10% of the energy they get.

we do have great ones.. but their price is impracticable for the general public (the ones you see on satellites and space stations and stuff would probably work.. but that'd be one heck of an expensive grow )

maybe it's possible, i don't claim to know much.. but i just don't think they're advanced enough yet to have a sweet grow room off the grid yet. (though i guess it all depends on how many of them you can get, and what your location is )

 

[ziggyross]

Wow thanks everyone for the great reply's.
BigO I haven't picked out a particular kit yet. I was hoping someone had one on their RV that they could recommend.

OG as always a very detailed item list thanks

Roddy thanks I will check out the site.

Kao you may be right we are not quite there yet in the technology.

 

[nouvellechef]

Remember. Federal rebates still apply to solar kits. We looked ino running 6k worth of lights and all the bells and whistles. It was about 100k for the package and we would recieve about 40-60% if I remember right in rebates for installing it. That 40-60% still applies for even a 10k set-up. It does however take a long time to make up for the cost. Like in CA when you pay .18 a killowatt or whatever. That would make up alot faster than say here in WA. A flat .08 a killowatt and if your zoned "AG"(agricultural), like me, its mandated that its a flat .04 a killowatt.

 

[Roddy]

Well, they look good and all, but not thinking anyone has tested these for growing? Seems cheap enough, maybe buying a set and trying them is a good idea. If they fail, they're still useful.

 

[Roddy]

Wondering here, since my elec bill skyrocketed the last few months, maybe a wind/solar package might be better?? Not sure because it's hard to tell the hype from truth, but some of these systems look promising.

 

[ziggyross]

you think you could grow with hid lights ?

hidheadlightkit.com

BigO you might be on to something. They do come in different color temps.

 

[LyleMartin]

Does anyone know if one of the solar panel for A RV would produce enough energy to run a 1000 watt bulb for 12 hrs a day in ideal conditions? Even if it would produce half of the needed electricity I would think this would be great.:icon_smile:

Hello friend sorry for old thread reply but were you able to get one such kit? I do have similar needs so please share some information and help me..

 

[Marsrover1]

the trick with solar is concentrating the sun the panels can handle more light

here's what you do, build you a rig were the solar panels are above facing down then you build a solar tracking cradle on bottom add mirrors in a concave pattern facing the panels , what this does is concentrate the amount of sunlight hitting the panels. more light more juice the panels can handle the extra power. there a few dif plans online just research it

 

[trillions of atoms]

You would need one hell of a setup, battery bank, caps, an ATS if supplementing the charging capability and converter to be able to draw that much amps for 12hrs straight with out replenishing the bank.

It will take big forklift batteries and a series of them to work the way you want it.

Onan makes killer converters/gen sets and I know a place to get the batteries in bulk local here.

Just an RV solar kit wouldn't cut it. The banks on RVS ae desisned mostly to run lights and smaller outlets,

the a/c's and fridges washer n dryers etc off the generator or even natty gas.

The solar kits they have are for battery maintenece if you don't have a maintainer wired from the factory.

Most RVS actually don't even come with ATS's (automatic transfer switch) that switches the Power from batteries or "chassy" to genset and have to be installed aftermarket if they don't want to do it manually by hand.

 

[RobertoTighe]

Does anyone know if one of the solar kits for A RV would produce enough energy to run a 1000 watt bulb for 12 hrs a day in ideal conditions? Even if it would produce half of the needed electricity I would think this would be great.:icon_smile:

Yes solar energy is pretty effective if plenty of sunshine is available.. I am using it for sometime and got pretty nice outcomes..