There are many ways to skin a cat, and even more ways to add solar power to a shipping container. To be fair, I cheated a bit. Well, not really cheated, but I just went with a retail solar generator system instead of DIYing that part myself from à la carte components.
Between my electric bikes, e-motorcycles, e-ATVs, electric tractors, and a few other things I'm probably forgetting, having a weather-sealed, solar-powered off-grid charging shed would be a big benefit.
To save a bit of money instead, you can source your own solar panels, solar charge converter, batteries, inverter, and wiring, then make it all play together. For me and my limited time, an offer from Pecron for a solution that would do all of that for me sounded perfect, so I went with Pecron's system.
I used pressure-treated 2x4s to build a pair of mounts for the solar panels, each of which would hold three 200W panels. With 1,200W of theoretical power (and probably more like 900W of solid real-world Florida solar energy), that would be a decent flow rate.
The 1,200W solar array should be able to nearly fill that entire battery bank with a solid day of strong Florida sun, though it''s pretty rare that I''d even use the entire 8 kWh in a day anyway.
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