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Renewable Energy & Technology
Our mountain home in Sneem is the result of a long hard
search spanning many years and as I write this we have
been in the property less than one year. I purchased the
property primarily for the location and not the house,
although we have grand plans for the house too, hopefully
adding more age and traditional construction. The overall
goal is to be self sufficient in power, with no reliance
on services, though the use of intelligent software
control.Most of the
planned systems are yet to be implemented but this is
where the funs starts, hooking everything together and
realising our dream of power self-sufficiency. It would
be a lot easier if I was running the system at a higher
voltage, but for several reasons I have decided to stick
with 12 volts as my primary battery bank. If this does
not work out I my suppliment the battery storage, but I
hope to produce enough power by over specifing everything
(if one is good more must be better). This will mean
that, hopefully, a lot of the time I will be producing an
excess of power, which the iCatcher based control systems
will intelligently dump so as to best use the surplus, on
cold days it will go to heating.
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