Building Off Grid Home in Orkney
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:49 am
I am building an off grid home on Westray in Orkney and would really like some advice and hear people's thoughts.
My current design for energy is the following:
Leading Edge 300 watt wind turbine with charge controller
1 Solvis 250 PV panel
Tracer reguator
2 Haze gel batteries about 120 amp hours at 24 volt
Steca 350 inverter
My main reason for posting this is that people on this forum recomment Trace inverters but I can't find a UK supplier.
Secondly there is a lot of discussion about gel batteries but I will be storing mine in my garage which will also be
a workshop so I am worried about gases.
If anybody can help I would be very grateful.
My current design for energy is the following:
Leading Edge 300 watt wind turbine with charge controller
1 Solvis 250 PV panel
Tracer reguator
2 Haze gel batteries about 120 amp hours at 24 volt
Steca 350 inverter
My main reason for posting this is that people on this forum recomment Trace inverters but I can't find a UK supplier.
Secondly there is a lot of discussion about gel batteries but I will be storing mine in my garage which will also be
a workshop so I am worried about gases.
If anybody can help I would be very grateful.