Run Dehumidifier With Solar Panel

Also you would need enough solar panels to provide enough power for the dehumidifier and the inverter.

Run dehumidifier with solar panel.

If you have a lot of chilly rainy days where the kiln isn t getting much solar gain and the drying is going slow you could try it. Run the dehumidifier on a low setting early in the process. Solar panels are dc. Would we charge a rechargable battery using the solar rays or would we run it on solar power alone.

If you want to run it at night you will need batteries too. We just need help in the way to power it. A battery will store energy from the solar panel so you can use it later. If you have at least 500 square feet of photovoltaic panels in good condition and a high capacity sine wave inverter.

I d take the dehumidifier out of there if it gets really hot. Helps for cloudy days or when the panel otherwise doesn t output the same power as the humidifier uses. Which they sandwiched between a solar panel and a water condensing plate. When the compressor starts in the dehumidifier the starting power draw can be well over 3000 watts.

When in doubt go slow. The solar panel that i have been looking at is the sunforce 50022 5 watt solar battery trickle charger. Figure out the right charge controller. We have a dehumidifier and we really want to make it solar powered.

Solar powered dehumidifier pulls fresh water out of thin air. You need to regulate the power from the solar panel into either the humidifier or the battery setup. To use them you would need an inverter to match the type of power ac t0 dc and the voltage needed for the dehumidifier. I had some problems i recommend using some sort of switch to automatically turn it off below a certain voltage.