{"id":2397,"date":"2025-06-18T12:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2025-06-22T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T11:30:25","slug":"solar-power-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/18\/solar-power-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Power!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have a complete solar system on our house, and I have a little &#8216;solar playground&#8217; out on top of the shed, complete with LiFePO batteries and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been playing with it, trying out all the different controllers and configurations &#8211; definitely sold on the LiFePO batteries &#8211; man they are awesome! (And expensive)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They behave a little different than a standard batterie, if you run them 100% dead, they are like really dead &#8211; flatlined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This charge controller addresses that and will be able to keep them going if they ever get to 0%.  A big plus!  I have had to &#8216;jump start&#8217; smaller LiFePO batteries before to get them back online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways, my end goal is to build out a very robust system and then transfer it tot he RV, panels on the roof and a rack of batteries int he closet to be 100% off grid if ever needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Habit #2: Begin with the end in mind. (7 habits of highly effective people)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a complete solar system on our house, and I have a little &#8216;solar playground&#8217; out on top of the shed, complete with LiFePO batteries and all. I have been playing with it, trying out all the different controllers and configurations &#8211; definitely sold on the LiFePO batteries &#8211; man they are awesome! (And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}