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. We'll be using solar for water heating, gas or fire for cooking, a water-wheel for pumping water to four or five meters height for some pressure, and we won't be using a fridge because we have no dairy products and all our vegetables stay fresh by only picking them as we need them.
For us 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.
