I agree with Butch.
I looked in to solar power a few years ago and to produce 4 kilowatts of
electricity it would have cost upwards of 30 thousand.
I believe you live in Illinois, and the amount of sunshine in November
through March is, probably less then 50 percent of the daylight hours. I
live a couple hours south of you in Springfield. In this area, in the
winter, you will only get maximum output from your panels between about 10
am to 2 pm. unless they can be steered to follow the sun and that is
expensive and complicated to do.
Batteries are expensive, require maintenance, need to be installed in a
ventilated area that does not freeze. I'm afraid you couldn't produce
enough electricity to keep the batteries charged enough to provide power
when there was no sun.
What type of heaters did she buy? How many watts do they use? Are they
quartz, infrared, or resistive elements? The quartz or infrared elements
will only heat you and not the air around you and probably less costly then
the resistive elements.
I'm sorry we are squashing your idea but it isn't really practical.
Howard #3
----- Original Message -----
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: OT How to Create A solar Power System to Power a Heater?
> My opinion would be not practical at all. Depending on your electric
> rates, electric heat is the most expensive when compared to lp or fuel
> oil. How many watts are your heaters? You are talking about large
> converters, large batteries, and very large and expensive solar pannels.
> It just isn't practical. You are much better off to just bite the
> bullet and pay high bills. Only other thing that might work is wind
> power, but that isn't cheap either. Really need to know how many total
> kilowatts you're talking about.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Mark WZ0K wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> First, I should explain the situation here. We live in the country =
>> on a farm. The heat here is propane which is expensive to say the least.
>> =
>> My wife bought large electric heaters that are pretty fancy. I admire =
>> her working it out so that with three heaters she can heat the house. =
>> Smile. On the other hand, now she worries about the electric bill.=20
>> Well, it seems to me that with a solar panel or two, perhaps a =
>> large battery and some 12 volt to 110 converters that we should be able =
>> to take the heaters off the power grid.
>> The trouble is that I don=E2=80=99t really know how to go about =
>> achieving the physical reality of this project, even though I understand
>> =
>> the basic concept. What types of prices am I looking at since we already
>> =
>> own the heaters? Do I really need the battery if we just want to run the
>> =
>> heaters in the day light? What other things have I over looked?
>> I appreciate your thoughts.
>>
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>> Mark and my beautiful wife Noella
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