Do you wish to swap your UPS battery for a solar bank battery?
Do you wish to swap your UPS battery for a solar bank battery?
I get it, but in my mechanics class I learned that as long as there is oxygen, petrol—an engine will keep running at any speed. All highways in my arrogant province are topped at 100 kph (60 mph for the rest of you). The ups is only needed for the pc, monitor, and modem, nothing else. Occasionally a table fan that draws just 13 watts... and that’s only active, let's say, 12 hours a day? Just because I plan to link the ups to larger batteries doesn’t mean I want to overload all my appliances into it... Honestly, if I could make my own ups, I would. But I really want to keep absorbing sunlight to reduce my dependence on grid power.
As it stands, I have a modified sine wave inverter with a scary Mandarin logo and 1000 watts printed in yellow. But it gets hot when I use just my PC tower. So here’s an idea: the only way I can charge my two solar bank batteries is through solar power. This ups... or a trickle charger... If you can tell me how I can connect my two solar bank batteries to the grid (local power plant), so I can put what solar can’t into the batteries, I’d appreciate it. Just let me know...
I received the off-grid link for the Bible AKA Home Power magazine. Please obtain the early black and white issues from 1987, skim only what you need and ignore the rest. Try a two-week read. I respect your effort as most people would stay in the dark. The key is parts and execution. There’s a lot of useful information in the magazine. From discussing exploding batteries to practical solutions like keeping batteries topped off with an old motor on a water wheel for continuous charging via a stream. Using grid power to charge batteries and then depleting them again is essentially just relying on grid energy with extra steps.
I’ve discovered the specifications (roughly) for your UPS. The charge current stands at 1.0A. If you’re recharging the 50Ah battery through the UPS system, expect about two days to fully recharge after it reaches a deep discharge level. A typical car battery bulk charger provides between 4-12A. Generally, the faster the charge speed, the shorter the battery life will be—roughly one unit of capacity per ten units of charge.
Thank you, I have your "bible" link open here; I'll take my time reading through it.
What I really aim to do is connect my solar system as much as possible so I can slowly reduce my reliance on local electricity. Most of the local power comes from a geothermal plant, and some of it still uses primitive coal power.