Would we charge a rechargable battery using the solar rays or would we run it on solar power alone.
Run dehumidifier with solar panel.
Which they sandwiched between a solar panel and a water condensing plate.
So if someone needs enough cooling power to justify even a very small commercial dehumidifier and they would like to make the most efficient use of their spare solar panels it would be better by far to convert the dc output of the solar panels to ac using an inexpensive inverter and use that to power their mechanical dehumidifer.
When in doubt go slow.
We have a dehumidifier and we really want to make it solar powered.
Solar powered dehumidifier pulls fresh water out of thin air.
Helps for cloudy days or when the panel otherwise doesn t output the same power as the humidifier uses.
If you have at least 500 square feet of photovoltaic panels in good condition and a high capacity sine wave inverter.
Run the dehumidifier on a low setting early in the process.
I d take the dehumidifier out of there if it gets really hot.
If you want to run it at night you will need batteries too.
I had some problems i recommend using some sort of switch to automatically turn it off below a certain voltage.
Also you would need enough solar panels to provide enough power for the dehumidifier and the inverter.
Solar panels are dc.
The solar panel that i have been looking at is the sunforce 50022 5 watt solar battery trickle charger.
When the compressor starts in the dehumidifier the starting power draw can be well over 3000 watts.
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.
If the system can t supply t.
Figure out the right charge controller.
A battery will store energy from the solar panel so you can use it later.
I have run an eva dry edv 2200 peltier effect dehumidifier from solar power taking the ac adapter out of the loop completely and running 12v from the charge controller output.