Hi All,
I am looking to run two Tower Gardens (bayuk.towergarden.com) on only panels and batteries. The towers run on small water pumps that are 50 watts each, 100 watt total. These pumps go through a mechanical timer (http://waterheatertimer.org/pdf/Tork-601A-Manual.pdf). I was advised and bought a 100 watt monocrystalline panel, Sunsaver 6L charger, a Bestek 1000 watt inverter and a 35ah AGM battery. The battery recommendation was inadequate. I run the pumps on and off at night, for a total of 3 hours. Here in south FL, this routinely runs the battery into the yellow zone on the charger, which I understand will drastically shorted the battery life. It's been rainy lately, so this doesn't help.
My question - what would be a better ah rating for this setup? Your advise about this, and any other comments on my setup, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Regards,
Andrew
I am looking to run two Tower Gardens (bayuk.towergarden.com) on only panels and batteries. The towers run on small water pumps that are 50 watts each, 100 watt total. These pumps go through a mechanical timer (http://waterheatertimer.org/pdf/Tork-601A-Manual.pdf). I was advised and bought a 100 watt monocrystalline panel, Sunsaver 6L charger, a Bestek 1000 watt inverter and a 35ah AGM battery. The battery recommendation was inadequate. I run the pumps on and off at night, for a total of 3 hours. Here in south FL, this routinely runs the battery into the yellow zone on the charger, which I understand will drastically shorted the battery life. It's been rainy lately, so this doesn't help.
My question - what would be a better ah rating for this setup? Your advise about this, and any other comments on my setup, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Regards,
Andrew
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