On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Ben Goren via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lots of discussion and good points since I last checked in yesterday. > Thanks, everybody! I'll try to hit all the high points in this single note. > > On Dec 22, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Michael Ross <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > It is important to know what your present and future power needs are. > > That much is basically covered. The system is already in place, has been > running for a few years, and produces about half again as much as I use; I > intentionally oversized it so I could accommodate an EV, and I'm still > working on the EV part. And, of course, if the numbers work out, I'll add a > mix of more panels and batteries rather than just batteries alone. > > > On the battery front - you live an a place that gets quite hot, it get > hot when have a lot of sunlight. This means you will subject your > batteries to the worst possible conditions for their life - high heat and > high state of charge. > > > The batteries will live with the inverter, etc., indoors at the back of a > walk-in closet. There's a duct (plus jump return) in that room, so it > shares the same airconditioning as the rest of the house. > > I do hope you have a fire control system. If you have lithium cells they can - any chemistry- get away and become very destructive. I would not put a storage pack inside my home. You say the space is climate controlled, but it had better be and not just sort of. The investment in batteries is great and you can ruin them quickly if they get hot. Will they be densely packed? WIll the cells in the center be well cooled? -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141222/33cb069e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
