I have been running my farm house from a generator/battery setup for over a year now and it is great but not with out its problems.
The average house energy efficient home will use between 6Kw and 10Kw per day assuming your hot water is gas/solar and your cooking is gas. The problem is with the batteries. A battery (deep cycle) can only be charge up at 10% of its value without risking damage to them. You must remember that the batteries take all the load and the generator simply charges the batteries. The power to house is supplied through an inverter. If you use 10Kw/day then you can only put in 1Kw per hour into the batteries, therefore at the quickest it would take 10 hours to replace what you took out in that day. Therefore if your generator is any bigger than 1kw then you are wasting fuel. A way to get around this problem is to have bigger batteries, so if your generator is rated at 5kw then you need 50kw of batteries (very expensive). but you would only need to run your generator for 2 hours a day. Remember just because the fuel is free we shouldn't waste it. Mani Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
