Hello Permies people!
I've been a very long time lurker over the years and love this site and forum. We have taken the plunge into an alternative lifestyle applying a lot of the stuff we have learned from Permaculture folk and more. We are living in a cob, straw bale, earth bag, and regular stick framed mixed house. It's about 1,200 sq feet heated by a rocket-stove bench and a cook stove. We are likely to build another house in the next three years or so because we messed up on many things on this first one. We learned a lot and it was a great experience overall. It still isn't all the way finished, but it's liveable and we are living in it.
Anyways I'd like to share a solar system crash course my wife and I wrote up after building our own system. It's an 800 watt 12v system with a 200 AH battery bank. We do not have electricity in our house by choice but it powers our shop and we can charge things there. It was a pretty massive learning experience for me and I just wanted to help others with what I learned. There are books with lots of info, and websites with small amounts of info but not a lot between. The intent of the writeup was to get a good amount of info fairly quickly with some resources to dig further if desired. I don't want to post it all in here since it's fairly lengthy but wanted to share the link and download. Hope it helps speed the process up for others. It's a pretty much what I wish I knew before I got started.
Here is a link to the post:
https://disconnect.bearblog.dev/diy-solar-system-crash-course/
and here is a direct download of a PDF version for those who just want to download it:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/CH7ZX7654R#bJ8Y7Bn2EVCt
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