12 175 watt 24 volt Solar Panels $150 ea on Craigs list in long Beach
8 T105 6 volt Batteries $120-150 each
1 Xantrex C60 Charge Controller $ 100
1 Magnum MS4024PAE 240/120/volt 4000 watt Inverter $2000-2500
Runs 400 foot deep Well(220) pulls 85 amps DC,
GE 21 Cu Ft side by side refrigerator pulls 4 amps DC,
Desktop Computer and 25 inch Monitor pulls 8 amps,
30’ Fully Loaded Trailer, all we use is lights and water pump, negligible power use,
Microwave pulls 90 amps but it is only run for a couple minutes,
Coffee maker uses about 50 amps DC when the element turns on, it cycles on and off every few minutes.
numerous 4 ft Shop Lights with 2 each 40 watt florescent bulbs, Negligible, it takes 2 on to use 1 amp DC, fans,laptops,tablets,kindles,cell phone charging.... all negligible, they dont even register on the meter.
Going to hook up Washer and Dryer this weekend. The big power items are best run during mid day,it will use all 45-50 amps the panels put out and maintain batteries. I still need to add at least 8 more batteries, and 8 more panels, and 1 more charge controller, just haven’t had the time. The trick is to have enough reserve battery power to run all night and morning while still having a 75% charge,til panels start producing, and panels should produce enough to fully charge batteries by 12 noon.
Still have not done any additions to this setup, but I am going to next month. I do have a Washer and Dryer hooked up now, washer is minimal about 10 amps DC but it goes to 30 on occasion when it spins. Dryer pulls 45 amps DC and is converted to propane. These are New Front Loaders from Costco, Whirlpool Duet.
Nice setup. You are pretty far south compared to me. I have to tell you that here, at 46.5° N Latitude, in January and December the panel output is negligible — enough to maintain the bank at full charge but not enough to bring it up from a discharged state in any reasonable time, especially when overcast/foggy. Plus, the T-105 batteries being so dang cold have a lot less oomph. The other thing we have to deal with is 70 mph gusts off the mountains trying to rip panels off mounts. But at least we won’t have to deal with hoards of zombies.