solar, just for lights

YingYang said:
Well it doesn't look like money is an object for you then.

I don't think I will spend that much just for one room's lighting. Noddamoer!
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D3x! said:
why the fark would a room have 22 lights, you are a problem, eskom should charge users like you at 400%
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I bought the house with 2 chandeliers in the living room.

Changing that to a other setup would be muuuuuch more expensive.
 
CamiKaze said:
I bought the house with 2 chandeliers in the living room.

Changing that to a other setup would be muuuuuch more expensive.
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Why the F would you want to run 2 chandeliers during load shedding?? The last thing I care about when the power goes off is lights... That is what rechargeable camping LED lanterns are for. I made sure my TV, DSTV and media player can run. The rest is not important.
 
MightyQuin said:
Why the F would you want to run 2 chandeliers during load shedding?? The last thing I care about when the power goes off is lights... That is what rechargeable camping LED lanterns are for. I made sure my TV, DSTV and media player can run. The rest is not important.
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that are all I also need. also the router and switch.
 
anybody have led strip lighting. interested in how you power them and how hard the installation is.
 
MightyQuin said:
Why the F would you want to run 2 chandeliers during load shedding?? The last thing I care about when the power goes off is lights... That is what rechargeable camping LED lanterns are for. I made sure my TV, DSTV and media player can run. The rest is not important.
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It is not for load shedding...

I obviously want to reduce the amount of electricity in my house whether Eskom is on its period or not.

It's drawing 800w + with the current 40w globes and this is how I bought the house. This is my 2nd/3rd week in the house.
 
MightyQuin said:
Why the F would you want to run 2 chandeliers during load shedding?? The last thing I care about when the power goes off is lights... That is what rechargeable camping LED lanterns are for. I made sure my TV, DSTV and media player can run. The rest is not important.
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I need some info around that, but that is after next pay day.
 
What sort of battery/inverter would I need to power my heater(winter) and stove plus the kettle?
 
Shaun108 said:
What sort of battery/inverter would I need to power my heater(winter) and stove plus the kettle?
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I have a gas geyser and it looks like I will be using R250/m for electric. I run the pool pump every now and then with that budget.

Get a kettle for the gas stove, and get a gas heater as well.
 
Shaun108 said:
What sort of battery/inverter would I need to power my heater(winter) and stove plus the kettle?
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A 1 000 000W inverter and then hook it up to the core of the Sun...should keep your toes warm for an hour. Otherwise like everybody else said: gas. Although gas heaters chow a lot of gas. I go old school in winter: socks and a blanket.
 
MightyQuin said:
A 1 000 000W inverter and then hook it up to the core of the Sun...should keep your toes warm for an hour. Otherwise like everybody else said: gas. Although gas heaters chow a lot of gas. I go old school in winter: socks and a blanket.
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That question reminds me of the loadshedding '08. I walked into Builders Warehouse to find it a madhouse of people buying generators and portable lights. Walked pas the one salesman explaining the benefits of a generator to a elderly couple, just in time to hear him say 'Of course you can run your stove off this.'
Stop. Do a double take. ******* was trying to sell them one of those small 650W units. :wtf:
I was about to walk over and stop a potential house fire, when another sales man, who'd also heard this, interrupted him. Whispered something into his ear and the guy scurried off to the back of the store with this panicked expression.
Last I saw the guy was showing them some gas stoves.
 
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MightyQuin said:
A 1 000 000W inverter and then hook it up to the core of the Sun...should keep your toes warm for an hour.
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Spot on. :D
Starting to feel all threads are going like this:

What sort of inverter do I need to power my platinum smelter operations. The builders warehouse dude reckons I can get one of those solar lights and just stick some other batteries in there. So I'll just get a couple of those special batteries from Makro, they say deep discharge, so must be fine - I'll just run those 100 Amp hour batteries at 1,000,000v, because watts is amps times volts, so I'll have 1 billion killowatts per hour... Rule of thumb is 30% depth of discharge -- that makes all batteries last 5 years no matter how badly I treat them I hear. No I just need to figure out if I charge them with an old jerry-rigged pc power supply, or if I'll just hit it with a hammer until the UPS stops beeping

A little knowledge is sooo dangerous, isn't it!

</sarcasm>
 
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Shaun108 said:
What sort of battery/inverter would I need to power my heater(winter) and stove plus the kettle?
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A Kettle is between 1800 and 2200W.
A Stove plate is 1000W or 1500W each
An Oven is 3000W
A heater is usually 2000W

If you want to run all of them simultaneously, you would need then at least a 12KW inverter.

At peak load, you would be drawing around 1250 Amps from the battery bank.

If you wanted to cook/heat for 2 hours at least, you would need 5000Ah of battery capacity for a 50% discharge.

Or roughly 50 x 105Ah batteries

Total cost: Inverter: R25 000 batteries: R75 000.

Total cost R100 000.
 
Gaz{M} said:
A Kettle is between 1800 and 2200W.
A Stove plate is 1000W or 1500W each
An Oven is 3000W
A heater is usually 2000W

If you want to run all of them simultaneously, you would need then at least a 12KW inverter.

At peak load, you would be drawing around 1250 Amps from the battery bank.

If you wanted to cook/heat for 2 hours at least, you would need 5000Ah of battery capacity for a 50% discharge.

Or roughly 50 x 105Ah batteries

Total cost: Inverter: R25 000 batteries: R75 000.

Total cost R100 000.
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ie. Buy a gas hob and heater. And make damn sure your wife does not plug her hairdryer into the UPS.
 
Some feedback on the initial topic, I bought a 600W pure sine wave inverter over the weekend. Hooked it up to 6x38ah batteries I salvaged from my dad. Did all the wiring running into the DB board. But could not find a change over switch this weekend so that put an end to that. Also ordered a 120w solar panel and charge controller - hopefully I can add that this weekend and hook everything up. (If I can find a damn change over)

Had load shedding on Sunday and I had a couple of speakers on the inverter and it happily run for the 2 hours with barely draining the battery bank.

Will post back with my system as soon as I get it working 100%
 
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