Tailgater
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- Jun 25, 2020
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So my wife and I are building a new barn for our 3 horses, and we've been toying with different ideas on how to power it, the barns needs should be fairly modest, several lights, a small electric fence, some sort of well pump, and possibly a small amount of heat in the tack room to keep the water line from freezing. So we've decided to go with a small solar array and a battery pack made up of old laptop cells which I'm able to come acrossfairly easily though work. So far I've just been stripping the laptop packs into individual cells, I've ordered a couple LitoKala Lii-500 chargers for testing as well as enough cell holders and nickel strips for 400 cells to get me started.
I also have an old UPS that I'm thinking I may be able to use as an inverter, the 24v sla batteries in it are shot but the rest of the unit works, I'll have to spend some time to research this to see if it will work for this or not.
I also have an old UPS that I'm thinking I may be able to use as an inverter, the 24v sla batteries in it are shot but the rest of the unit works, I'll have to spend some time to research this to see if it will work for this or not.