How to hook up Solar Panels (with battery bank) – simple ‘detailed’ instructions – DIY solar system

shows how to hook up solar panels (with a battery bank). simple instructions. home solar power station. very easy to put together. all you need is 1 or more …

25 thoughts on “How to hook up Solar Panels (with battery bank) – simple ‘detailed’ instructions – DIY solar system”

  1. I want to build one of these for a trailer I will be living in full time in
    the southwest desert. I want to run an electric burner for cooking dinner,
    charge laptop and cell phone, in the winter run a heater and in summer run
    an air conditioner. do you know what type of panel setup I would need and
    how many batteries? 

  2. Are these brand of batteries very good? Does adding more batteries raise
    the voltage like in a flash light? Like are 3 batts going to put out 36
    volts? I’m ignorant when it comes go that.

  3. Rolando Santiago

    How about the specification of the charge controller? how will you match
    it with the solar panels PV volts? Some solar controller says Nominal
    System voltage: 12/24VDC, Maximum PV input voltage: 50V, Nominal charge/
    discharge current: 10A, LED display and the solar panel has this
    specs 120W Solar Panel (600V Maximum System Voltage).

  4. I will also try to do this in Trinidad & Tobago as it’s sunny and would
    help my mum out.

  5. made a little solar power system too. I used two 145 watt panels and 4
    six volt golf cart batteries. I got my charge controller from Midnight
    solar.
    I works great. I can power my freezer if needed. I also have my TV, router,
    AT&T box and several lights hooked up. I put in a breaker box and can turn
    the panels off going to the charge controller, and shunt it to a grid tie
    inverter. That way I can keep a battery bank charged for emergencies and
    then put back to the grid so I don’t wast any electrons.

  6. can i leave the batteries hooked up with the panels for ever ? i want to
    work on outdoor lighting system.

  7. Your illustration is very informative.. thanks for it. Just to ask one
    thing. Is there’s any limit on the number of batteries you can ad it to?..
    I plan to purchase 6 batteries and to hook it to 10amp 24v 2000watts
    inverter. Is this fine to do?.. thanks

  8. intercepted sparow

    One question please. With 3x100AH batteries in pararell connection
    how many panels(12v), do i need to be fully charged??? for now i
    got only one, which i know its useless

  9. How that’s inverter working out? I once bought a inverter from Harbor
    Freight and it broke two weeks later.

  10. ive heard its better to wire solar panels/wind turbine straight to batterys
    then have the controller wired to the batterys somehow , possibly from its
    battery terminals and so use the controller to pump any overcharge to
    something else like a load or some more batterys , have you heard of doing
    it that way ?

  11. have been thinking , it might be better to have 2 charge controllers ,
    split the panels in half, maybe i am thinking too far out of the box,
    wouldn’t that increase the amps but keep the voltage the same?

  12. This is the simplest video that I came across explaining how it all comes
    together.

    Thanks.

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