Solar power for my holiday home

Providing solar power for a holiday home must in some aspects involve a better understanding of solar power than that required to make a decision on a completely independent solar powered system required for every day use

Why?

Well, firstly, one must know how often the holiday home will be used and for what period of time

Many holiday homes are used only on weekends. If this is the case, you can design a solar system that takes into account that there are normally at least 4 days in which to charge the system, followed by 3 days if usage.

In this solar system design one can get away with fewer or smaller solar panels, and use a bigger battery bank for power storage.

Typically, weekend getaways you are only looking at basic lighting, perhaps music centre, TV and DSTV, camera and cellphone battery recharging (option 1 below)

The use of microwaves, fridges, and hairdryers facilitate the need for a larger inverter in the solar powered system component mix (option 2 below)

One can already distinctly categorise the above 2 scenarios for solar power for a holiday home and we give suggested solar powered systems below. Please note that the pricing the is suggested is for budgetry guidelines only and should you require a comprehensive quote then please contact us.

Option 1

Option 2