- hacker
- description
- Hacker minded Solar power setup with nice twists
- started
2017-09-14
Background
I have been really facinated about idea of making your own electricity and being bit more self sufficient for long time.. We live in pretty much middle of nowhere and because of that and long/old electric line, grid outages have been pretty normal here (during first few years there has been few even over 12h outages) . To over come those we build UPS backuped electric sockets to every room to our house (and garage) when we build our new house. Now as old UPS device looks like it could need a replacement, i was wondering could i merge these two things together.
I created simple list what i wanted:
- work as a replacement for current UPS system - solar input has to work even on cases grid goes down ( grid tied AC inverters will go down) - most of the work will be done by me - reasonable starting costs, but have to be extendable easily - in future ability to handle lifepo4 etc batteryes (powerwall etc 48v) - EMI, i am a also HAM, so no added radio pollution - extra points from opensource / ability to hack
When i was searching this kind of system i found out that there is thing called "energy storage for solar", and it is getting pretty big.. idea behind is that you could store your surplus solar energy to battery and use it when solar production is going low, so you are increasing your self consumed part from your solar production.. I instantly found out that this type of system could full fill most of my needs..
When compared different vendors and systems one stands up on many ways.. Victron. Company has started on building power system to naval systems, and is now doing also many kinds of solar related products and systems. one of the coolest thing is that they are truly making most of newst system open source and there is already community around victrons opensource things.