Home & Garden Solar components

Depends on what type of battery you have in mind 100 ah battery would only run a LED light and maybe one those cheap plastic fans they have to keep the fly's away from the fish vendors.
I'v seen 250 watt panels, 20 amp solar chargers DC breakers and 100 ah batteries on Lazada and shoppe. And yeah the search engine sucks. I google what I want in the shopping section and it brings up what you searched for.

 

I would urge anyone considering ordering stuff like this to apply common sense before ordering.
There's absolutely no way that a panel of 0.14 sqm (like the flexi one in the Lazada ad) produces 250W.
At best I would think it could maybe produce 25W.
A 250W panel would cost around 10k in peso and be around 1.2 sqm in size.
The picture below is from the Lazada ad, 11x21=231 square inch = 0.14 sqm
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I had to laugh when i read this as it reminded me of something from many years ago, my wife and i had to go away for a week so we got her mother and father to stay at our place mainly to look after our pets, we left them some money for anything they might need.
On the day we came back i noticed the big blue bottles for the water dispenser were full of water but did not have the sealing tape on them that the water delivery company uses.
The story was that they thought it was a money saving idea to not buy water and instead fill the bottles with boiled water from the electric kettle.

 

It was just an example how to search for solar components without stressing too much on Lazada's search engine, by searching on google's search engine and looking at shopping, solar components will show up.
I thought this was obvious
Obviously do your research first.
I have deleted the example.

 

I was able to get a 460 watt panel, controller and 1kW inverter at Solar Plus in Dumaguete, picked up two 100 AH batteries from Triumph Home Depot. I'll get everything installed over the next couple of days.

It's a small system, but should be fine for the what I need it to do.

I'll post some pics once I have things up and running.

Shawn

 

Dave...you are correct I may be providing a bit more power than needed for the caretaker house. The small ref will most likely be used to keep my beer cold than for the caretaker. What I need more than anything is a couple receptacles for power tools, instead of dragging the generator out there. I plan to build quite a bit of infrastructure going forward around the farm and need reliable power.

Currently I'm looking at 2 small LED lights and 3 receptacles in the caretaker house (little bamboo house we bought and had delivered). Another LED light at the CR and another at the dirty kitchen. A very small load, but as things grow I'll be more than pleased to be able to run saws, grinders and other hand tools.

Shawn

 

Just curious. How many volts are the batteries?

 

12 volts, I'll connect them in parallel to increase storage capacity.

Shawn

 

Where is Solar plus located?

 

I messed up, they are actual Solar Max; address from their flyer; Freil's Bldg South Banilad Hwy, (near UWash) Tel 035-522-431263 Phone 09171272047.

The manager and staff seem pretty solid; enjoyed the conversation.

Busy with things but was able to get quite a bit done today; our first solar install should be 100% by COB tomorrow.

Shawn