Solar Generator Question

Where is stay there are a few power outages from trees falling on the power lines and knocking the power out. So I wanted to create a portable solar generator that can power 4,000 to 4,500 watts AC power for 24 hours. What size deep cycle battery and how many will it take? Also, how many solar panels will I need to recharge them fully? Where I stay we receive 5-7 hours of sun per day. I will use one set while the other is charging. Any advice would be appreciated.

I have no idea but more brain power to you. I hope you get it figured out.

victormone said:

Where is stay there are a few power outages from trees falling on the power lines and knocking the power out. So I wanted to create a portable solar generator that can power 4,000 to 4,500 watts AC power for 24 hours. What size deep cycle battery and how many will it take? Also, how many solar panels will I need to recharge them fully? Where I stay we receive 5-7 hours of sun per day. I will use one set while the other is charging. Any advice would be appreciated.

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LOL portable 4KW for 24 hours? If by portable you mean a single-wide!


Solar electricity is a *poor* return on investment. Solar hot water is good.
Think *wind* I saw a 400W wind turbine for $700.
(now that was without a mast, batteries, and @ 28mph wind)

Solar is expensive. Panels are about $500 for a 120W, then add in install, inspection, inverter, charger, batteries, replacement batteries 6 years later, wiring (copper is pricey these days)

Stand by generators always operate on natural gas. Why? Its the cheapest way to generate home electricity when you factor in equipment cost. The power you require is at the kind of level where you need a 10g stand by generator with a pipeline. The only other thing feasible if you dont want to build your own solar powerplant is gas generators and thats so expensive its ridiculous.

5 hours of sun a day...in the summer? Where are you the arctic?

24 hrs of emergency dark wont harm plants too much, certainly not enough to rationalize spending 20 grand for light backup.

If, as i think, your just trying to grow indoors remotly grow in a greenhouse or outside, running multiple 1000watters off the grid is mucho mucho expensive/

I got it figured out. The 5 hours avg. year round is just of good sun beaming at its strongest.

just the solar panels needed to make 4K watts will cost you about $50,000-65,000 dollars, add in another 50k for everything else needed, plus a large vehicle to carry it all, yeah it could be done, but I would rather just pay the power company, I can get a lot of grows in for 100K in power.