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Off Grid Goat Barn

I am looking at making an off grid goat barn, and I am a solar newbie. I will probably be using two LiFePO4 12V 200Ah batteries wired in parallel, giving me 400AH, to power the system, but I'm a little fuzzy on what I'll need in between. I know I need a charge controller, battery charger, battery monitor, inverter, and batteries, but I'm not sure what would work for what I want. Below are my calculations on daily kWh hours, the highest Wattage loads, and the differences between kWh hours during the summer and winter, as well as the general layout for the lights and outlets. I'm thinking about 8 circuits in total.

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Barn Electrical Layout

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nickdb answered ·

Hi, The best place to discuss design is with your supplier, design is a complex topic with many options and variables, so we don't encourage it on the community.

You can also look on the victron site, there are many brochures with examples for different applications.

Here is one for off-grid: https://www.victronenergy.com/upload/documents/Booklet-Off-Grid-System-EN.pdf

The rest can be found here: https://www.victronenergy.com/support-and-downloads/brochures


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