I'm hopefully going to be building a garden office/workshop once we've moved and am pretty keen to understand options for it being predominantly powered 'off-grid' via solar.
Most of the time I'll be running
- Laptop + Monitor = about 100W I'd guess
- Some lights, not sure how many yet
- Probably an electric heater in winter/fan in summer
- A small class D amp running speakers
- And probably some USB peripherals/chargers
That's the 'office' side - hopefully the other half will be the 'workshop' and that's where I'm guessing the power would likely need to switch to mains once a 1200W mitre saw and similar tools are running on and off throughout the day, or perhaps not?
The split of usage is likely to be around 90% office/10% workshop. I'm assuming that having enough energy storage (batteries) to run the workshop for a day, would likely increase the payback period significantly, i.e. most of the time, that capacity is unnecessary.
So any thoughts on panels, inverters, storage etc, much appreciated. Cheers!
Most of the time I'll be running
- Laptop + Monitor = about 100W I'd guess
- Some lights, not sure how many yet
- Probably an electric heater in winter/fan in summer
- A small class D amp running speakers
- And probably some USB peripherals/chargers
That's the 'office' side - hopefully the other half will be the 'workshop' and that's where I'm guessing the power would likely need to switch to mains once a 1200W mitre saw and similar tools are running on and off throughout the day, or perhaps not?
The split of usage is likely to be around 90% office/10% workshop. I'm assuming that having enough energy storage (batteries) to run the workshop for a day, would likely increase the payback period significantly, i.e. most of the time, that capacity is unnecessary.
So any thoughts on panels, inverters, storage etc, much appreciated. Cheers!