Our power project

We're going to do a basic solar setup, as it will cost many thousands to get grid power to our land. We don't need much power as our main requirements are just for lighting, internet and laptops which is around 100W of power. This means that a 100Ah battery and about 300W of panels should do the trick.

We don't need a really expensive inverter with perfect sinewaves since we're only running LED lights and some computer equipment which all has its own power regulation. I've ordered this cheap 200W model for US$20 which should do the trick.

For the panels, we'll probably get a kit like this which gets the price down to around R$2.50 per Watt.

We'll still need a decent charge controller, which I'm currently undecided on.

See also

• Our rural net connection
• Energy