Benefits Of Using Advance Home Energy Storage Batteries

Summary: Power technology is not actually new; it has been here for decades. However, the efficiency of the first plans left much to be desired, so people waited for the technology to mature. Today you can see solar panels in small plans such as solar power calculators, and as large as the wings of man-made cables orbiting the earth.

Over the years, we have all become accustomed to lights and other conveniences that allow us to read and work well past sundown. Regardless of whether you need to cook food, answer emails, or perform other tasks in the evening hours, being without electricity can cause major problems. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that this is one of the biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to implementing home solar power generation plans. Fortunately, there are ways to overcome these difficulties with a minimal amount of expense.

Battery Storage Devices

When you put up solar panels, they will create electricity from dawn until dusk. In most cases, you will find that the panels will generate more electricity than you actually need. For example, if you do not have any gadgets running during the day, all of that energy will not be used. Unfortunately, if you do not store that electricity, it will be wasted. Today, you can make use of a number of unique battery systems that will enable you to store enough energy to power your home both day and night.

Appliances That Store Solar Energy

As you may be aware, solar lights come with batteries that charge up during the day. In a similar way, you may be able to buy other appliances with small solar panels on them. Regardless of whether or not you use these devices during the day, there should be plenty of energy in the batteries to enable you to use them at night. While there are not many devices available with this kind of battery storage system, there may soon be dozens of them arriving on the market shortly.

If you want to be successful at home solar power generation, you will need some type of system to store the energy. In most cases, you will need to make use of batteries that can be easily recharged. As may be expected, you may need to do some creative thinking and planning in order to find the cheapest and best batteries for this purpose.

Automatic cut-off from the grid

Batteries may seem like a big expense, and nobody's saying they're cheap. But it is possible for them to pay for themselves in what you'd save by not being hooked up to the local power grid. Some people have both batteries and a local grid hook-up. Anyone with solar powered electricity who is hooked up to the grid has to have an automatic cut-off from the grid in case of a power failure. The reason is safety. If your PV system is cranking out power but the local wires aren't, it could accidentally feed electricity into a line that a line worker thinks is dead.

Overcharged or over drained

When you have batteries to store energy from your solar power system, the energy is sent to a bank of batteries or a power inverter to convert the direct current (DC) electricity into alternating current (AC) electricity. Some solar panels have an inverter already built in, which simplifies the wiring considerably and makes it unnecessary to have a large central inverter.

In addition to a power inverter, you'll need a charge controller. That's because your batteries will have the longest possible life if they're not overcharged or overdrained. When the batteries are charged fully, the controller doesn't let any more current flow into them. When the batteries have been drained to a certain set level, the charge controllers won't allow more current to be drained from them until they've undergone a recharging.

Deep-cycle batteries

It is important if you buy batteries that you buy deep-cycle batteries. This is a different kind of battery from your car battery, which is a shallow-cycle battery. Your car battery discharges a large amount of current in a short amount of time to start your car, and then is recharged while you drive. But batteries for a home PV array have to discharge a smaller amount of current over a longer period of time, like at night, and they're then recharged during the day. Deep cycle batteries are the right batteries for this situation.

Energy-converting

Home energy storage batteries converting devices are called photovoltaic cells (PVCs) and are mostly composed of silicon with tiny wires that convey the minuscule power being formed in each cell to the storage battery. Each cell is connected to other cells and together they compose panels. The panels are then connected with each other to form clusters that generate the needed level of power. Thus the number of panels necessary to power up a home depends on the size of the house itself and the amount of power needed.