Hello Mr Sunking, Mike, SunEagle good day.
The house we just moved into has a nice insulated shop (24x30') with 100amp service. (I'm converting it to 'man cave'.)
The previous owner installed 16 x 4foot ballasts (2 bulb) = 32 florescent bulbs. Some are 32W, most are 40Watts. By my math that is about a kilowatt of power every time I turn the lights on, and the thought of that kills me.
I could take the path of least resistance, which is probably convert the bulbs to LED style (I know about the ballast rewire). But the shop lights are unsightly so I have been also playing with the idea of just replacing all the lights with LED fixtures.
Then, a friend suggested solar...
Lets say I want to use it for 2 hours per day, that will be conservatively high.
I have about $1500 budget, and thinking that I am going to spend about half of that to buy LED fixtures and bulbs.
How much would I expect to pay for solar panels, controller, batt and inverter to run lets say ~600Watts of LEDs?
*Keeping in mind I have the luxury of switching back to AC in a pinch
Thanks guys
The house we just moved into has a nice insulated shop (24x30') with 100amp service. (I'm converting it to 'man cave'.)
The previous owner installed 16 x 4foot ballasts (2 bulb) = 32 florescent bulbs. Some are 32W, most are 40Watts. By my math that is about a kilowatt of power every time I turn the lights on, and the thought of that kills me.
I could take the path of least resistance, which is probably convert the bulbs to LED style (I know about the ballast rewire). But the shop lights are unsightly so I have been also playing with the idea of just replacing all the lights with LED fixtures.
Then, a friend suggested solar...
Lets say I want to use it for 2 hours per day, that will be conservatively high.
I have about $1500 budget, and thinking that I am going to spend about half of that to buy LED fixtures and bulbs.
How much would I expect to pay for solar panels, controller, batt and inverter to run lets say ~600Watts of LEDs?
*Keeping in mind I have the luxury of switching back to AC in a pinch
Thanks guys
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