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I guess you could also use a small battery to help smooth things out.
by nicoburns 3y ago
I guess you could also use a small battery to help smooth things out.
- londons_explore 3y agoThe money efficiency isn't great - if you had control of the design of the dishwasher, simply having a hot block of concrete inside that you heated when there was spare energy would work out far cheaper. Concrete costs far fewer $$$'s than batteries do, per kwh of heat stored, it also doesn't require inverters, balancing or safety systems, ad lasts millions of cycles rather than thousands.
- usrusr 3y agoHow expensive would it be, transportation included, compared to an insulated water container of comparable heat capacity?
- goodpoint 3y agoOr maybe store hot water and heat it up at the best time...?
- marcosdumay 3y agoThe water is too hot to store safely. You can still slowly heat it up to 70 or 80°C and just add some extra heat on use, but that will still leave a lot of immediate power to deal with.
- notatoad 3y agoI can't imagine a scenario where you've got a large enough solar system that you'd want to be running a dishwasher off it, and you don't already have some battery storage elsewhere in that system.
- solraph 3y agoWaves from Australia However, since my array is currently 4.4kw at 3 in the afternoon, a 2.5kw burst isn't a problem.