Solar Panel For Ac Window Unit

Stress testing my portable ac unit and solar panel power system.

Solar panel for ac window unit. I decided to stress test my solar panel system by turning the portable ac unit on high and setting the thermostat to 60 degrees. Solar panel systems will generate thousands in electricity savings for over 25 years and outlast your air conditioner plus all the other appliances they power. In this video i test out a 5000 btu air conditioner with 150 watts of harbor freight solar panels 352 amp hours of deep cycle batteries and a power inverte. It is simply a 16 000 btu window air conditioner that runs on 48 vdc.

When you hunker down for the night the unit will switch to the grid to draw its power. If you re connected to the grid and you ve got the roof space installing enough solar panels to cover your entire electricity usage including ac is a very doable task and one that many homeowners have done before. Ac units use a lot of electricity but they re really no match for a well sized solar installation. Just laying out the equipment that i got as a beginner for a system that works off the grid.

Experimenting with harbor freight solar panels. Ductless mini split air conditioner solar ymgi 12000 btu up to 32 seer solar assist hybrid with heat pump with 15 ft installation lineset without solar panel 5 0 out of 5 stars 1 1 725 00 1 725. It has no solar panels batteries or adapter to plug into household current. As the name suggests hybrid ac s run on a combination of solar power and grid power.

I wanted to see how long it would take for my solar panel system batteries to bottom out 50 discharge. Smart charge controller connects solar ac to the solar panels batteries. In the day time solar air conditioner will work on solar energy and at the night time it will work on battery backup. My inverter ac unit can use as little as 240watts right up to its maximum rating.

I actually gave away my original 18000btu unit to install a 10000btu inverter. And it costs more than four times an equivallent 120 vac. The only option for solar powered air conditioning is to use an inverter air conditioning unit. 48 vdc solar air conditioner consist of four important components which are solar ac smart charge controller solar panels batteries.

This is the most energy efficient type in the industry and it is simply amazing.