Solar energy is an effective way to generate renewable energy for your air conditioner to use while also providing power to the rest of your appliances.
How to connect air conditioner to solar panels.
Solar panel systems will generate thousands in electricity savings for over 25 years and outlast your air conditioner plus all the other appliances they power.
The acdcx allows any 240v 60 hz appliance or air conditioner to be powered directly by solar panels when enough solar power is available.
The advantage of solar powered air conditioning.
My inverter ac unit can use as little as 240watts right up to its maximum rating.
When it s hottest and the sun is shining the brightest i can make lots of power.
Even with the air conditioner on high my solar panel system still makes enough power to add 2 000 watts into the batteries.
This is the most energy efficient type in the industry and it is simply amazing.
The first 500 watts produced go to the air conditioner directly.
This allows me to run the ac full blast to keep my house nice and cool.
Assuming that an average is produced from the effectiveness of the solar panel and is transmitted into a battery that is capable of providing self reliant energy storage directly to the air conditioning unit it is extremely possible to power the air conditioning unit with as few as 8 solar panels.
In order to meet this need the solar panels would be required to generate 107 amps 7 hours every day this is if it is a clear sunny day.
So to power a 13 500 btu air conditioner 1 500 watts of solar panels is the minimum required.
More is needed with more clouds.
Ac for grid connected homes the fact that we are all able to access almost unlimited amounts of electricity 24 7 is a beautiful part of our modern electricity grid.
Let s take a look at ac energy requirements and typical solar production to see if solar panels can really run air conditioners in each setup.
These numbers only take into account the energy needed for air conditioning.
Solar is always the primary source of power.
Ballpark 800 to 1000 amp hours of battery and 1500 watts of solar would be a starting point.
The only option for solar powered air conditioning is to use an inverter air conditioning unit.