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To: RegulatorCountry
Running the A/C on solar-powered battery bank would have worked for at best a few hours, not overnight. Not so now.

Again, I used THEIR numbers. My only "SWAG" was the battery conversion efficiency of 80%, which I supplied from my expertise of 30 years as an electrical engineer designing switching power supplies, big and small.

Please tell me what's wrong with this analysis. I want a PV backup at my country home (not for A/C though), so I need to do this right.

75 posted on 09/28/2017 9:16:33 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of the MAGA agenda. But now the Swamp is back in control.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

I can’t wait to see them dump batteries in an emergency. I’m an EE. This is the stupidest idea ever.

Not saying it can’t be done, but nothing compares on an energy/lbs basis like petroleum-based fuels.


76 posted on 09/28/2017 9:18:20 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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