If you live in an area with no snow, no ice, lotsa sun, then 10X the load and a week of batts will barely suffice. If you have snow, ice, locations that are hard to get to, etc then 20X the load and two weeks of batts will take care of you.
I have done this many times over on many mountain tops. I have also hired helicopters at 2000/hour to get to sites that did not have enough panel or battery. If you can drive to the site year around to top off a battery during periods of inclement weather, then you can cut back on the size of the battery. Telemetry is very important no matter what you do. You can keep an eye on things and know they are going to fail before they do. You can also remote start a small propane generator with telemetry too if you want to scrimp on panel. If money is tight, go with the larger battery and smaller panel. If money is squeaky tight, remote start generator and batts can be the whole system. Just start it once every 3 days and let it run for an hour. From: Mathew Howard Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 12:14 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] solar question Chuck is saying 1000 watts, which would be 4 x 250 watt panels, but keep in mind I'm figuring load on the high side to be safe. You could probably get away with 500 watts of panels, like Jesse said, but if you want to be sure it's never going to have problems, go with Chuck's numbers. Mathew Ok what size solar panels are we talking about jesse is saying 2 x 250 watt panels is that correct? Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: "Mathew Howard" <[email protected]> To: af <[email protected]> Date: 07/05/16 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] solar question Most people will tell you to figure about 6 watts each for Ubiquiti radios... I typically see close to for 4 watts average on ours, but it's better to err on the high side, so I'd plan for about 50 watts on that setup. On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: How many watts of load does that total? -----Original Message----- From: Tim Reichhart Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] solar question Hey Guys I need to know what kind of size of solar setup I need to be able power 4 rockets,2 powerbeam m5 500, 1 rb2011ils-in, 1 nanostation m2 this site have no option for power from power company and this location in northwest ohio. Tim
