i am moving to sierra leone, the poorest country in the world. there will be no electricity where i will be. if i buy a 12v solar charger and a 12v (we’ll say flourescent) light capable of creating as many lumens as a 60w light bulb, how many hours of light can i provide each night (assuming 14 hours of sunlight)? any additional suggestions for off the grid power are very welcome.
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I’m actually in the (very) preliminary planning of doing something like that for my house. My plan is to get a special (I’m guessing it would be a different one from conventional) battery in which it’ll store the power and then flip the switch once it gets dark and just use it from that for the night (and temporarily disconnect the conventional power until the morning). I think this’ll be quite complicated so I’ll probably get an old computer to handle this function. Hope that helps.
To many variables to answer this question. Mostly depends on the efficiency of the system you install
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