Emergency solar power system

Keep Critical lots On During energy Outages
Millions of houses were left without power this winter season when extreme ice and snow storms swept around the world. Don't let power outages leave family at night or grind your company to a halt!

Be equipped for unexpected emergencies with battery-stored back-up power for your:

• Lights
• Refrigeration
• Followers
• Mobiles

• Sump pumps
• Protection methods
• More!

The crisis Backup Power bundles keep your residence or company powered up if the grid is knocked out by blizzards, ice storms also normal disasters.

Battery Backup energy could be included to a current grid-tied solar powered energy system. Some of the systems the following could work alongside your existing gridtied solar system.

Four Star Solar Emergency Residence Battery Backup

The systems the following are recharged by regular utility-provided electricity, by wind or gas generator, or by solar power panels. These bundles include appealing, lockable white powder covered metal electric battery enclosures. These products below provide back-up power stored in batteries that can be charged and re-charged by the grid, by solar power panels, or by generator.

Methods for the Do It Yourself Installer*

Whenever planning your back-up power system, remember that the back-up power is provided for a sub-panel. Both panels might linked through the inverter inside electric battery back-up system. You should have an AC range originating from most of your solution panel that is connected to the "AC in" regarding back-up system. The "AC out" is then sent to the sub-panel only, not to the primary panel.

During a power outage, energy is furnished and then the backed up sub-panel, to not the main panel. This requires which you move certain circuits you need driven as soon as the grid is down, into the brand-new sub-panel. This is certainly best-accomplished by a licensed electrician.

Caution!!
The reason for wiring crucial loads into a subpanel is twofold First, if you were to send the "AC out" through the back-up system to your primary panel, you would be backfeeding a "down" grid. This can be unlawful and dangerous. Secondly, as soon as the grid is "up", energy should be moving, unregulated, right back through the "AC out" link from the back-up system and could harm your electric system.

Whenever grid is "up", power will move from the main panel through the battery back-up system to run the loads / circuits in the sub-panel. This power is bound because of the energy transfer capacity for the inverter. If you need much more existing transfer ability for the back-up up loads, you can parallel numerous inverters to improve current flow. Wholesale Solar's technicians can pre-wire and test the inverter system in-house, before delivery, to guarantee that you have enough energy.

*Does perhaps not affect Rolling Thunder devices

“Intense Winter Storm Left Us Without Power” A Cautionary Tale by Mark & Ellen Coleman

“Intense cold weather storms in January 2010 left us with 4 feet of snowfall and no energy, liquid or temperature. Our passive solar house or apartment with a gridtied solar power electric system works great whenever there’s sunshine. does not just work at all as soon as the utility energy is down.

Of training course, the irony of the fact that we offer battery back-up systems and, in fact, have actually a warehouse saturated in the components you'll want to arranged these quick lifesavers struck united states smack within the face. Oh well, oh well.

The very first couple of days without any energy were fine. We moved stuff from ‘frig to a cooler call at the snowfall. The house held its temperature pretty well, and we could cook from the propane fed home kitchen stove. But because of the 3rd day's no energy, the bedroom temps had been around 40 levels at night. Brrrrrrrrrr! Unlike most of the domiciles of this type, we do not have a wood-burning kitchen stove. Our hydronic baseboard heating units rely on electricity to power a pump. Time to use it!

We had been fortunate having accessibility heavy-duty 200 amp time 6-volt DC batteries. We obtained six UPG battery packs and a Magnum sine wave inverter/charger through the warehouse and plopped them on the room flooring near our energy area. Find out more...

The UPG’s are sealed battery packs therefore we didn’t need to worry about off gassing. The inverter’s job will be transform the DC electrical energy from the battery packs into AC electrical energy, which can power our house. These Magnum inverters/chargers are actually smart; they could charge batteries from grid electrical energy or from solar panels or from a gas or propane generator then feed the electricity right in which you need it.

Luckily for us, additionally, whenever we wired our house we planned to incorporate a battery backup system later on. We had separated out of the crucial devices we want to be able to run in crisis: the water pump, the heater pump for the hydronic baseboard heating units, and plugs within company so we can operate computer systems and phone. You could in the same way easily run a cord with several plugs through the back up power unit.

From past experience living completely from the grid with solar power electrical energy, we knew that fridges and electrical devices with temperature elements are huge power draws and so we failed to plan to run them in an urgent situation.

It took Mark about an hour to wire the battery packs into a 12-volt setup, link all of them into the inverter/charger and operate a wire to your breaker box. Flipped the switch and, bingo, water pump began refilling the stress tank, the heat pump began up, and residence heated up. We were capable operate the essential devices for the following 2 days just in the energy through the batteries, without recharging them. If power was out for much longer we'd have recharged all of them with solar panels or with a gas generator.

We truly don’t like the concept of making use of a fuel generator because they're messy, unreliable and challenging begin (unless you may spend truly big bucks), plus they rely on a non-renewable gas that is in restricted supply right here during severe weather conditions. A month or more past the big violent storm, we’ve set up our Wholesale Solar battery back-up methods that includes a Magnum Sinewave inverter and UPG sealed battery packs in a slick attractive closet. We discovered space in a closet nearby the breaker package to put it in. We’ll keep in mind this cold temperatures violent storm for a long time, and we’ll be better prepared the next time.

This handsome Midnite Solar battery enclosure with lock (shown at remaining) easily holds eight 6 volt battery packs, the Magnum inverter and safety disconnects.