GS-100+KIT EXPANDABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANUAL Rev. 140303 100W 200W 300W 400W GS-100+ Preconfigured Kits Manual ©Copyright 2012, Grape Solar, Inc. All Rights Reserved www.grapesolar.com Tel.
GS-100+KIT EXPANDABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANUAL Rev. 140303 100W 200W 300W 400W www.grapesolar.com Tel.
GS-100+KIT EXPANDABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANUAL Rev. 140303 Overview The GS-100+Preconfigured Kits are designed to be modular and expandable solar generators, capable of meeting a wide variety of power production needs. These kit can be as simple as a battery charger or expanded to provide enough power to continuously support a cabin. With everything you need and nothing you don’t need, these kits are the most cost effective of their kind.
GS-100+KIT EXPANDABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANUAL Rev. 140303 System Sizing: Step 1 - Determine Consumption To determine the total system size you must first calculate your consumption in Watt hours (Wh) per day. Lighting If you have four 15W LED lights (actual wattage not equivalent wattage) that you plan on running for 8 hours per day, you would take the wattage of each bulb, multiply it by the number of bulbs and multiply that by the number of hours of run time per day.
GS-100+KIT EXPANDABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANUAL Rev. 140303 System Sizing: Step 2 - Calculate Panel Count On an average day, a single 100W panel will produce about 300 Watt hours (Wh) of charge. This figure will vary depending on temperature, brightness and time of sun exposure. In the Summer production will be higher than in the Winter. On bright sunny days the output will be higher than on cloudy days.
GS-100+KIT EXPANDABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANUAL Rev. 140303 System Sizing: Step 3 - Inverter Sizing The solar panels put out DC power that is fed through a charge controller onto a battery bank. If you have an application that requires AC power you will need an inverter to take that power off of the battery and turn it into 120V AC.
GS-100+KIT EXPANDABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANUAL Rev. 140303 System Sizing: Step 4 - Battery Bank Sizing The GS-100+ Preconfigured Kits do not come with batteries, but will work with most deep cycle batteries. A deep cycle battery is designed to be charged and discharged regularly, unlike standard car batteries that are meant to hold a somewhat constant charge. Deep cycle batteries come in many forms including lead acid, sealed AGM and Lithium Ion.
GS-100+KIT EXPANDABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANUAL Rev. 140303 Connecting Panels in Parallel The solar panel comes with 900mm MC4 leads, one for positive + and the other for negative -. The connectors plug into the MC4 leads for the Charge Controller, or in multiple panel systems, plug into the MC4 T Branch connectors.
GS-100+KIT EXPANDABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANUAL Rev. 140303 Mounting Hardware & Additional Accessories Mounting Because of the wide variety of possible user applications, Grape Solar panels do not come standard with mounting hardware, but the panels come with study aluminum frames that have mounting holes and can be mounted to a variety of structures and materials including wooden or metal frames.
GS-100+KIT EXPANDABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANUAL Rev. 140303 Common Questions How many batteries will I need to go with my panels? Batteries have to do with how much power storage your system needs regardless of how much generation capacity you have. You can have 10kW of solar panels charging a 36Ah battery or you could have one 100W panel charging 1200Ah of batteries. The panel just affects how quickly the battery can be charged.
