Hey folks. Looking for someone to poke holes in this idea.
In the planning stages of building a new off grid home in a California burn scar. Utility drop would be unbelievably expensive or we would have gone that route. Having seen what happens to FLA batteries after a fire we would strongly prefer to again keep batteries separate from the home. There is available space to either build a power shed that we would have to build to code that houses equipment to power the home, and possibly an RV pad... or to simply drop a full size shipping container down to hold this equipment. The container would hold the FLA batteries, charge controllers and inverters. This isn't a temporary install, and would need to be code compliant. A shipping container on site isn't a huge issue from an aesthetics standpoint. Issues I could possibly see are yearly below freezing and the 100+ temps that the area sees, so a battery box may need to be built out with both ventilation and insulation. I've dug into 690/705 and haven't really seen any code issues in the NEC for landing batteries into a container like this. Would also allow the generator to be landed next to the container, and create enough separation you wouldn't hear much from the house under use. Realistically it's a weekend/extended vacation home, not a full time residence.
So what say the forum? Is this a pipe dream, or something that's actually possible? Seems like a 4-5000 container may be superior in this case to a 20,000 full structure as long as code compliance wouldn't be an issue. Just to be clear, the actual PV would be a traditional ground mount... the container would not be used as a structure for modules.
In the planning stages of building a new off grid home in a California burn scar. Utility drop would be unbelievably expensive or we would have gone that route. Having seen what happens to FLA batteries after a fire we would strongly prefer to again keep batteries separate from the home. There is available space to either build a power shed that we would have to build to code that houses equipment to power the home, and possibly an RV pad... or to simply drop a full size shipping container down to hold this equipment. The container would hold the FLA batteries, charge controllers and inverters. This isn't a temporary install, and would need to be code compliant. A shipping container on site isn't a huge issue from an aesthetics standpoint. Issues I could possibly see are yearly below freezing and the 100+ temps that the area sees, so a battery box may need to be built out with both ventilation and insulation. I've dug into 690/705 and haven't really seen any code issues in the NEC for landing batteries into a container like this. Would also allow the generator to be landed next to the container, and create enough separation you wouldn't hear much from the house under use. Realistically it's a weekend/extended vacation home, not a full time residence.
So what say the forum? Is this a pipe dream, or something that's actually possible? Seems like a 4-5000 container may be superior in this case to a 20,000 full structure as long as code compliance wouldn't be an issue. Just to be clear, the actual PV would be a traditional ground mount... the container would not be used as a structure for modules.
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