Beginners Guide to Solar Power

When I first went with solar, I started very small, a 45 watt solar panel, a 750w/1500w modified swine power inverter and a 5 amp charge controller, all purchased from Harbor Freight. This came to a total of about $175.00. I purchased 2 deep cell marine batteries from Wal Mart, this cost about $160.00.

This ran my lights, gas stove (oven), radio, and an old tv.

I have expanded since then, my garage has all the old stuff from above plus an extra 2 deep cell batters.

I now have 3 165w solar panels for the house along with 4 AGM batteries, a 50 amp charge controller and a pure swine power inverter to run everything above plus computer equipment and charge sensitive electronics.

If you go with solar, make sure you buy a pure swine inverter for your sensitive electronics or you may fry them.

Here's an article for the beginner:

https://webosolar.com/blog/parts-of-an-off-grid-solar-system/

Here are some solar starter kits from renogy, for the beginner, all you have to add is the battery or batteries. The prices are not bad:


https://www.renogy.com/products/solar-kits/starter-kits/

Video on a basic solar power installation. In an emergency situation, if you have all these items you will be able to charge/run simple items. As far as the battery, you can use the battery in your vehicle.

You can get solar panel kits from Amazon, Ebay, etc., they are reasonably priced, depending the size you want and the size depends on what you want to run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOka91PxFlA

Came across this from theprepared.com, off grid power 101. Ya never know when you'll need some power:

https://theprepared.com/gear/guides/off-grid-power-101/