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Yes I have, I have two room in the house that is Hunger for $$power$$ and it was time to fix the issue. Room one is our Satellite monitoring room which has one hungry 85 inch Z8H and I use 9 Monitors plus one computer and a few decoders. Room two is a Computer room that has 5 computers where at least 4 off them are on and these computers use 850w power supplies that feed RTX 3080ti for sat use only Now my computer room is only used about 20% of the time compared to the Satellite TV room but even then it SUCK a lot of power.
Although we use a lot of power we have never had a electricity bill since 2008 because of our Solar Feed in system that generates income for us (40cents Per Kw) plus runs the house day and night and considering the price of KW is getting higher (rediculas after the 1st of July 2023) we might go to the dark side and pay AGL our money which we don't want.
Persons ask to combat this can you increase the size/amount of the panels on your Solar System that feeds power back in the street and the answer is QLD NO, so how do you get around this issue. Built a OFF GRID System that you can use mainly at night and that is completely legal to do as you take the load away from the main Feed in Solar that is connected to the street.
It has taken me nealy one months on and off to complete the project, yes I'm old and I don't work 8 hours a day mainly after the first 2 days that I have worked 8 to 10 hours and it nearly wipes me out and its time for me to slow down.
To start with our system I use 3 X 100Ah LiFe PO 4 batteries and I will add another next week to increase the capacity but in general I will have 8 in total after I build another cabinet today.
I have done this project cheaply as the 8X200 watt panels I got a a carton of beer, ( I have 2 spares), the inverter I got free after I done some favors to earn this, Purchase the Battery Controller. got a discount price for the Batteries. The rest I had but what I did not have and it cost was the RED Clipsal Series 2000 power points that cost over $26 each and got 10 of them. One installed on the Special Circuit for the Sat tv room, the other after I have a rest.
The Photo below shows the 3 Solar panel in front of our house facing north (you dont need to see the front of the house)
The Photo below shows the other 3 panel on another part of the roof facing north. Also You can see the other panel that feed the On Grid Solar system. Take note the Terrestrial antenna. One facing Mt Cootha and the other Bald Knob for Sunshine Coast. Installers say its impossible to get Sunshine Coast where you live. Clearly they don't know me.
The photo below below shows one of the two battery cabinets. Now I have 3 batteries , Soon I will have 4 in it. total 2 cabinets with 4 in each,,, total 8 Batteries.
The photo below shows whats in the Cabinet.
The Photo below shows a distance shot of the Battery Controller, the Inverter, AC and DC Switchboard and down the bottom the Battery Cabinet
The photo below shows the Efficiency for our hungry Sony 85 Z8H people look for more STARS, I look for less stars as 95% of Tv's that have less stars are better tv's
The photo below shows the FIRST RED Clipsal Double Power Point that donate OFF GRID POWER for me That one lead feed the complete room, Yes all the Monitors, decoders, the big TV everything in that room so all I need to do is remove it where it is now and plug it into the Red power point.
Its time to build another cabinet. By the way this OFF GRID Stuff is new to me and still learning. By the way ,,, Have a look at the RG-6 cables on the bottom left, It thick as a arm, RG-6s for the Satellite Dishes
Although we use a lot of power we have never had a electricity bill since 2008 because of our Solar Feed in system that generates income for us (40cents Per Kw) plus runs the house day and night and considering the price of KW is getting higher (rediculas after the 1st of July 2023) we might go to the dark side and pay AGL our money which we don't want.
Persons ask to combat this can you increase the size/amount of the panels on your Solar System that feeds power back in the street and the answer is QLD NO, so how do you get around this issue. Built a OFF GRID System that you can use mainly at night and that is completely legal to do as you take the load away from the main Feed in Solar that is connected to the street.
It has taken me nealy one months on and off to complete the project, yes I'm old and I don't work 8 hours a day mainly after the first 2 days that I have worked 8 to 10 hours and it nearly wipes me out and its time for me to slow down.
To start with our system I use 3 X 100Ah LiFe PO 4 batteries and I will add another next week to increase the capacity but in general I will have 8 in total after I build another cabinet today.
I have done this project cheaply as the 8X200 watt panels I got a a carton of beer, ( I have 2 spares), the inverter I got free after I done some favors to earn this, Purchase the Battery Controller. got a discount price for the Batteries. The rest I had but what I did not have and it cost was the RED Clipsal Series 2000 power points that cost over $26 each and got 10 of them. One installed on the Special Circuit for the Sat tv room, the other after I have a rest.
The Photo below shows the 3 Solar panel in front of our house facing north (you dont need to see the front of the house)
The Photo below shows the other 3 panel on another part of the roof facing north. Also You can see the other panel that feed the On Grid Solar system. Take note the Terrestrial antenna. One facing Mt Cootha and the other Bald Knob for Sunshine Coast. Installers say its impossible to get Sunshine Coast where you live. Clearly they don't know me.
The photo below below shows one of the two battery cabinets. Now I have 3 batteries , Soon I will have 4 in it. total 2 cabinets with 4 in each,,, total 8 Batteries.
The photo below shows whats in the Cabinet.
The Photo below shows a distance shot of the Battery Controller, the Inverter, AC and DC Switchboard and down the bottom the Battery Cabinet
The photo below shows the Efficiency for our hungry Sony 85 Z8H people look for more STARS, I look for less stars as 95% of Tv's that have less stars are better tv's
The photo below shows the FIRST RED Clipsal Double Power Point that donate OFF GRID POWER for me That one lead feed the complete room, Yes all the Monitors, decoders, the big TV everything in that room so all I need to do is remove it where it is now and plug it into the Red power point.
Its time to build another cabinet. By the way this OFF GRID Stuff is new to me and still learning. By the way ,,, Have a look at the RG-6 cables on the bottom left, It thick as a arm, RG-6s for the Satellite Dishes
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