Mark Daniel Olsen
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So i saw tesla's powerwall and thought that i could help my dad in his offside garden where he only has a gas generator to power his little house and machinery.
I pitched the idea and he liked it so the plan is:
Build a solar powered battery as cheap as possible (while not burning the house down)
He wants a 10 amp circuit inside the house to power phone chargers, lights etc. and something that could charge small diy EV's like a garden tractor, later if this is successfull. the amp and volt of that depends on what connector and charger i can get at the time of creation.
his is in the garden about 8 months a year where he uses electricity about 6 hours a week, so the capacity dont exactly need to be big right now. but because of the small roof (the house is only 6m2) it should be capeable of getting power enough between each use and store it.
He has no idea of anything about electronic but the basics about changing a socket, (which we have to add)
So currently me, my dad and his friends are scavenging our local trash site to get as many laptop batteries as we can, and from our experiance they are often fine batteries, just the computer had been trashed by the owner.
So here is the small amount of 18650's which we have gotten, and my friends dad says he have some laptop batteries at his home.
So what i want to know, how many volts should i make the system, currently i'm thinking about 12, 24 or 48. the capacity can be changes at any time because we are going to mount the wall outside the house (in dry conditions)
I pitched the idea and he liked it so the plan is:
Build a solar powered battery as cheap as possible (while not burning the house down)
He wants a 10 amp circuit inside the house to power phone chargers, lights etc. and something that could charge small diy EV's like a garden tractor, later if this is successfull. the amp and volt of that depends on what connector and charger i can get at the time of creation.
his is in the garden about 8 months a year where he uses electricity about 6 hours a week, so the capacity dont exactly need to be big right now. but because of the small roof (the house is only 6m2) it should be capeable of getting power enough between each use and store it.
He has no idea of anything about electronic but the basics about changing a socket, (which we have to add)
So currently me, my dad and his friends are scavenging our local trash site to get as many laptop batteries as we can, and from our experiance they are often fine batteries, just the computer had been trashed by the owner.
So here is the small amount of 18650's which we have gotten, and my friends dad says he have some laptop batteries at his home.
So what i want to know, how many volts should i make the system, currently i'm thinking about 12, 24 or 48. the capacity can be changes at any time because we are going to mount the wall outside the house (in dry conditions)