system desing for 1/2 horse power motors

[Wy_White_Wolf]

You have 3 strikes against your system. Unless you correct all 3 the problem will remain.

1. Your array is way undersize.

2. Your battery bank is way undersize.

3. You've over estimated the daily insolation available. No place averages 8hrs insolation a day and for off-grid you need to design for worst case which would be the average for the worst month. We would need to know your location to help with this one.

How many of these motors are you trying to run and how long per day do they run?

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[Sunking]

Simple you need a lot more panel wattage and much larger batteries.

[Usmandj]

Dear All,
I've currently installed a solar system at my gas filling station. I am using 5 panels of 240watts
240x5= 1200 watts
and using 2000w pure shine inverter and a charge controller. My battery bank is of 600Ah.

sun shines at my location for 8 hours a days and give me 30A per hour on average.

I've few question if some one could help me out.

Is my system enough for running 3 1/2 horse power motors?
How much time should my batteries take to recharge?

My problem is that my motors run fine in day time but at night when sun is down my battery bank gets empty and there is not enough load as we have approximately 50 customer in 12 hours at night?

can any body suggest me what to do?