Solar power for your cabin?

[lameduck]

Lol, yep, we are just barely in the edge where rio grand coop's line is, suck's for us I guess, Every time we pass that place I want to punch'em in the throat.... And they charged us $250 to come out and take GPS reading's to route it, 2 week's later they hit us with the $40,000.00 ..

What about propane ac and fridge

[Thundervee]

Yeah,Bryan, It look's like it would be expesive no matter what route I go....The kit I was looking at was $7500.00, it comes with 6 240 watt panels,and everything, but does not come with the batteries, they have the batteries for it, they are $449.00 each.... Probably just keep running the Generator for now....

[Thundervee]

What about propane ac and fridge

Had'nt thought about that, may look into it, thank's for the heads up

[Old Bald Guy]

I'm thinking generator cause by the time you set up a system to handle that load plus enough battery backup for night and cloudy days that 40 K may look a lot more appealing.

[Thundervee]

I'm thinking generator cause by the time you set up a system to handle that load plus enough battery backup for night and cloudy days that 40 K may look a lot more appealing.

Lol, I'm with ya, I hate the solar idea, but the 40k Idea is a b**** too!

[Tick]

Battery's with a generator back up, put a small solar panel to keep battery's charged wile your gone. Build a dog house for the generator away from camp with a over sized fuel tank.

[bryan sandlin]

did not want to throw it out like that. just the facts as price today. one other thinking. way back in 1984. i passed up buying a place that did not have power to it. 178 acres. total price for the land was 9000.00 kerr county. just from years ago. 500.00 pole to pole power line. forgot what that was. but the land today has a price of 1700.00 acre

[LWolken]

You need to buy a device called "kill-A-watt"(home depot) it will log your device consumption add them up bingo you'll know how much solar you need. We went through exactly the same thing and went the solar route. Its horribly ineffecient. Beware it ain't cheap and you may spend close to that $40,000 in equipment. Our double door fridge freezer combo logged 3000 watts in 48 hrs thus 1500watts per day just for the fridge. This was without opening the door, just maintaining temperature. We also have a propane fridge but that another story. The problem with solar is that you will have to generate 3 times the power in 8hrs for any device that draws over a 24hr period then you have to store it somewhere (batteries). We have a 2,560 watt array, 600a/hr battery bank and 10kw genset. You will need to generate a surplus of power to be stored in bateries on cloudy days. Our system may only produce 1/3 the power on a coudy day. An array will cost $4-6 bucks per watt including mounting hardware (Gates). So an array our size costs around $12,000, inverters $3,000-7,000, Batteries $2,500-$4,500 charge controller $500-$1,000, You will be into it for a easy $20,000-$25,000 thats if you do all the installation yourself like we did. One mistake and you can kiss your battery bank goodbye!! Did I mention that it ain't green either!! Hydro or wind would be much better due to its ability to produce power more hrs per day.....Not sure I'd want a genset clanking away 24/7 propane fridges are $$$ about a grand for a 9cu/ft

[Felix40]

Propane might be the way to go. I lived in a cabin for a year that had no electricity at all. Propane fridge, water heater, stove, furnace. I don't know if you can do a propane ac but I wouldn't be surprised. You can hang some lanterns that have butane in them for light. Then you just need a generator for the tv if you want and it wouldn't take much to run one. I can't even keep a dang feeder charged up with solar all the time so Id hate to use if for a whole house.

[LWolken]

Propane fridge and honda EU2000i with propane conversion done.
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[Thundervee]

You need to buy a device called "kill-A-watt"(home depot) it will log your device consumption add them up bingo you'll know how much solar you need. We went through exactly the same thing and went the solar route. Its horribly ineffecient. Beware it ain't cheap and you may spend close to that $40,000 in equipment. Our double door fridge freezer combo logged 3000 watts in 48 hrs thus 1500watts per day just for the fridge. This was without opening the door, just maintaining temperature. We also have a propane fridge but that another story. The problem with solar is that you will have to generate 3 times the power in 8hrs for any device that draws over a 24hr period then you have to store it somewhere (batteries). We have a 2,560 watt array, 600a/hr battery bank and 10kw genset. You will need to generate a surplus of power to be stored in bateries on cloudy days. Our system may only produce 1/3 the power on a coudy day. An array will cost $4-6 bucks per watt including mounting hardware (Gates). So an array our size costs around $12,000, inverters $3,000-7,000, Batteries $2,500-$4,500 charge controller $500-$1,000, You will be into it for a easy $20,000-$25,000 thats if you do all the installation yourself like we did. One mistake and you can kiss your battery bank goodbye!! Did I mention that it ain't green either!! Hydro or wind would be much better due to its ability to produce power more hrs per day.....Not sure I'd want a genset clanking away 24/7 propane fridges are $$$ about a grand for a 9cu/ft

Thank's bro!! That's the kind of info I was after, I appreciate it man

[Playa]

What about wind, or wind solar combo?

[lodgepole]

http://www.dowsolar.com

Take a look at these. We just developed these and I think they are on the market now. I don't know anything about cost or the product it's self. I was involved in development of the packaging.

[lodgepole]

Ttt

[Thundervee]

Those look exspensive, could find a price on the website though