Hello everyone, let me just start out by thanking anyone who helps me out here and also apologizing for my lack of understanding. I've been reading as much as I can in the past couple weeks to months, but still haven't come to any real conclusions for my needs. Here's my situation:
I've recently began farming on a 4 acre property that has no access to electricity and never will. This is not my decision but it remains the circumstance so I must move forward with my acceptance of that. My partner and I have built two greenhouses, figured out our irrigation using a gas powered suction pump to irrigate from a creek, and have been using a gas powered honda generator for the bulk of our temporary electric needs. With that said, we're at a point where we will have a couple things that need to run 24/7 that we'd like to take advantage of solar for. In addition, we're looking for a system that we can build upon as needed, if we ever need more demand of power.
At the moment, the only thing we are looking to power is a small fan that inflates the double layer of plastic to our greenhouse. This is a larger computer fan which runs on 12v at .52A or 6.24W. Within the coming month we will be putting in a deer fence. The chargers for the deer fences come in AC, DC and also built in solar. I'd like to take advantage of the stand alone DC charger, rather than buying one with a small solar panel inside, so that I can tie in into our system. The issue with these is I haven't found much information on the requirements, they state simply that a charger should run for 2 weeks to a month on a battery that is fully charged.
I'm not sure what else we will be adding in the future, possibly some temperature controllers or fans to the greenhouse if possible, but I'd just like to have that option, even if it's just an inverter to run 110v occasionally. I was considering the Renogy 12V starter kit but read something about the controller being a limitation and I've seen a few opinions that two 6v batteries wired in a series will do me better than a single 12v.
I'm very open as this is my first jump into solar, I know that I can run both of these off of a battery and just recharge the battery as needed because that is what I'm currently seeing other farmers do but I'd like to run this properly. I currently have a lot on my plate and that's why I'm reaching out for some help as I just cannot cover as much material as I'd like to in order for us to make an informed decision in the time frame that we need. Thanks in advance for any help, it will be very much appreciated.
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I've recently began farming on a 4 acre property that has no access to electricity and never will. This is not my decision but it remains the circumstance so I must move forward with my acceptance of that. My partner and I have built two greenhouses, figured out our irrigation using a gas powered suction pump to irrigate from a creek, and have been using a gas powered honda generator for the bulk of our temporary electric needs. With that said, we're at a point where we will have a couple things that need to run 24/7 that we'd like to take advantage of solar for. In addition, we're looking for a system that we can build upon as needed, if we ever need more demand of power.
At the moment, the only thing we are looking to power is a small fan that inflates the double layer of plastic to our greenhouse. This is a larger computer fan which runs on 12v at .52A or 6.24W. Within the coming month we will be putting in a deer fence. The chargers for the deer fences come in AC, DC and also built in solar. I'd like to take advantage of the stand alone DC charger, rather than buying one with a small solar panel inside, so that I can tie in into our system. The issue with these is I haven't found much information on the requirements, they state simply that a charger should run for 2 weeks to a month on a battery that is fully charged.
I'm not sure what else we will be adding in the future, possibly some temperature controllers or fans to the greenhouse if possible, but I'd just like to have that option, even if it's just an inverter to run 110v occasionally. I was considering the Renogy 12V starter kit but read something about the controller being a limitation and I've seen a few opinions that two 6v batteries wired in a series will do me better than a single 12v.
I'm very open as this is my first jump into solar, I know that I can run both of these off of a battery and just recharge the battery as needed because that is what I'm currently seeing other farmers do but I'd like to run this properly. I currently have a lot on my plate and that's why I'm reaching out for some help as I just cannot cover as much material as I'd like to in order for us to make an informed decision in the time frame that we need. Thanks in advance for any help, it will be very much appreciated.
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