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1200w is pretty insane even for a gaming rig unless it had dual GPU in SLI. any normal rig will be fine with maybe a 750w psu and even at full benchmark power it would only draw 600w of that my 5800x and 3070 when benchmarking draws ~540w, playing any games draws ~350w so that is the max i would realistically ever use at a constant rate oh and "idle" is a disgusting 200w draw, desktops are crazy
The normal CPU draw was on the order of 500W. Given that you only get full power from the panels for ~8 hours per day, the rest went into the batteries. I didn't actually run on batteries unless the mains was down. It was built as a "solar UPS" so the batteries were always kept charged when possible. There is a long story behind this project. The gist is that my power was crap because the last leg was a 40 year old 4…
Re: How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
#141That's a great story and it does flesh out the original requirements, thanks for writing it up.