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I actually live off the grid using a system of solar panels inverters and batteries (lead AGM batteries), the batteries are the most expensive part of the syste
by Egregore 15y ago
I actually live off the grid using a system of solar panels inverters and batteries (lead AGM batteries), the batteries are the most expensive part of the system, in the summer there is a lot of sun - I can cook with electricity, in the winter I'm using a netbook instead of the notebook to save electricity.
- hobin 15y ago"I'm using a netbook instead of the notebook to save electricity." Why? A notebook uses less power than a lightbulb these days.
- Egregore 15y agoWe don't use lightbulbs for lighting we use leds, so our lighting consumes less electricity than a notebook. In the evening I check how much electricity is left in accumulators and after using notebook in a cloudy day there is less electricity than after a netbook.
- hobin 15y agoI didn't mean you had to use lightbulbs, I just wondered whether the difference between using a notebook and a netbook was actually significant. Do you by any chance know how much of a difference it makes (in energy)? I would be interested in knowing. :)
- Egregore 15y agoFor Asus EePC it's about 20Wt for Toshiba Notebook it's about 40Wt.
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- rdl 15y agoCare to describe this in more detail?
- Egregore 15y agoI have: two solar panels of about 70-100Wt (self made from ebay elements) a bundle of two 200Ah 12V AGM accumulators a cheap ($30) Chinese charge controller a cheap Chinese invertor it writes on it 1500Wt but it sometimes stops on some 800Wt hardware (may be starting currents are too big) I'm using the invertor for notebooks, water pump, blender, even when it doesn't have load it consumes about 0.4A/hour so we're turning it off, especially during winter. We're trying to use as much car chargers as possible also our led light is 12V linked directly to accumulators.