I'm in the same conditions as Alex and David being in the Houston area. The humidity is a killer and the heat index will get to 107 as it did last year, but my concern is mostly with the humidity. I have a 24x30 shop, and with utility prices rising, trying to run an A/C in the shop gets expensive.
I was thinking I would like to do a couple solar panels and a battery bank just to run a split unit or a PTAC (motel type) A/C.
After doing some searching online I discovered that in order to make it more efficient for solar power I should use a DC unit instead of converting battery power to AC, which uses more power.
I have found a couple sites that are advertising Solar A/C units that won't be availiable for a few more months, no prices though, so they are probably high. Anything touted as "green" nowadays are high priced.
Last edited by Ted Jay; 07-04-2010 at 10:43 AM.
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