Is that area surrounded by International Paper lands? I used to work for IP and did field trips to company lands in ME and NB.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > No deer, lots of sign though. > The camp is in Caribou, Maine. Take I-95 north until it becomes the > TransCanada 2, turn left and drive north for an hour. > -Curt > > From: OK Don <okd...@gmail.com> > To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 12:16 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar performance - long > > Very cool - sounds like you are about to get it figured out and optimized > for your needs. Get any deer? > > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Since we had the talk some time ago about Andrew possibly installing some > solar power I thought I'd bring you up to date on the solar installation at > camp.As a reminder Dad installed 1x 100w solar panel, charge controller, 2x > 35ah 12v batteries and an 800w inverter. > The system powers the range hood which sports a 9w CF bulb and a fan which > together pull around 80w running on high and a ceiling fan which pulls > about 40w on its one setting. This is measured at the output of the > inverter with a kill-a-watt meter. When its on the inverter itself draws > .5a at 12v or about 6w measured with a multimeter. The inverter also has 2 > USB outputs, each draws .25a at 12v for another 6w when in use. The > inverter draws a constant .01a when idling with the USB ports hot but not > in use. > > Most recently we had 4 guys for 9 days. Thats 4 cell phones and 4 tablets > plus the wifi hot spot. Something was on the USB ports all the time, in > fact I charged my tablet and phone in my truck because I couldn't get any > time inside for it. So I figure we were using 6w 24 hours a day for 144w. > The range hood light/fan combo ran every morning for about half an hour and > the light ran every evening for about 2 hours, we didn't use the ceiling > fan. That'd be 40w in the morning and 18 in the afternoon giving us a grand > total of 202wh or around 16ah at 12v. > The 100w panel is angled for best capture in mid August at which time it > should make (reliably) 400wh a day. Sadly this time of the year I'd be > satisfied if we were making 1/4 that. We don't have good input monitoring > (yet) so lets say 100wh which is possibly generous. Certainly we did start > making power about the time the sun came up with the panel showing constant > 12v about half an hour later and it continued at that rate until the sun > was well over the horizon. So we were using about twice our production. > Actually thats true for the sunny days, I suspect on the cloudy and rainy > days we were probably making more like 50wh... > Some of this will be improved by taking down some small trees to the east > of the camp that shade the panel early in the day. There are other much > larger trees which could be removed for more improvement but won't for > ascetic reasons. > > Anyway the system behaved as expected, with an 8ah a day deficit voltage > sagged badly so every other day I'd run the charger for awhile to prop it > up which was a PITA. > The extended plan for next year is to add 2x 100w panels and 2x 35ah > batteries though I may push for a third panel instead of the batteries to > help during the cloudy times. > Other add on plans:2x 12v ports, we need more USB capacityammeter for > incoming (ie solar) monitoring. I intend to put this in a box with the 12v > portsbattery voltage monitoring - we currently have an input voltage > monitor but not on the batteries, though in practice the batteries lag the > panel by about .2v just about all the time. > Pics: > http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz353/curtludwig/Camp/IMG_20151113_134650599_HDR_zpsvaomkrrj.jpg > the panelhttp:// > i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz353/curtludwig/Camp/IMG_20151113_134636443_HDR_zpshlloz7hl.jpg > batteries, with the backup charger, note that this is actually on the > outside of the camp, directly under the panel and just visible in that shot. > http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz353/curtludwig/Camp/IMG_20151113_134715244_zpszvgug8rj.jpg > the brains of the operation, right to left, the inverter with the > kill-a-watt hanging off it feeding the camp through the orange cord is > connected to the charge controller which is connected to the batteries > (middle posts) and to the solar (left side posts) also shown is the solar > voltage and under that the shunt thats supposed to allow us to see solar > amperage but that strangely only seems to work at voltages below 12v. > -Curt > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > -- > OK Don > NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens! > “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of > our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain"There are three > kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. 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