Powering your home with Deep cycle batteries

Posted by Felix Okoli on Monday July 14, 2014 at 12:16:27:

In a home, a side from the basic power supply from electric power companies, there are other alternative methods of generating power supply in the home such as solar energy through the use of solar panels, and then deep cycle batteries. For this article, I will how to power a home with deep cycle batteries.

Most people are only familiar with automotive batteries used by a car; they don’t know that there are other types of batteries used to power home electrical system; a typical example of such battery is the deep cycle battery.

A deep cycle battery is designed to store large amount of currents discharged within charging sections, and have a heavy non porous battery plates that helps to withstand the deep cycles, that is the repeated charging and discharging sections. The deep cycle battery capacity is measure in amp hour, and one amp hour is equivalent to one amp of current drawn for one hour of time between charging cycles, this means that the number given as the amp hour capacity for a deep cycle battery will be the number of hours the battery can deliver over a period of 20 hours

Solar panels, wind generators or normal electricity can deliver power into deep cycle batteries; the excessive power is stored in the battery bank during low use times that is middle of the day, and middle of the night, and makes the power available during high use time, morning and evening. Deep cycle batteries supply DC power, and needs and inverter to convert it to AC power for household use.

You can power your home with Deep cycle batteries and it will provide power for you to do things like watching tv, enjoying your fan, having light bulbs on even when there is no external power supply to your home from the electric company. You just need to get one that suits your power needs and then make use of an inverter to convert it's current to AC which is the type of power your home will use.