Alt Energy to power the tank

[mark]

Wind's the way to go.

For our high arctic auto weather stations used to run solar only and large battery packs but have been adding wind generators. We've been able to reduce the size of the battery packs because of with a relatively light wind, can dump the current into the battery through the charger. They over come the issue of frost build up, cloud and fog and of course have the panels beat on that 24 hr darkness thing.

Still think long way to go before cost effective to run a reef tank.

[spreerider]

the best method of solar power doesnt use pannels it uses parabolic mirrors to heat water in a pipe then use that water to turn a turbine, its simple to build and generates AC current, so no need for wastefull inverters and no pollution manufacturing pannels.
but large scale projects are more efficient than many small ones so it makes more sense to buy power from the local supplier (depending on your price) but in bc power is relitivly cheap 6.5cents per KW/H

[kwirky]

you could probably use it for heating the tank quite economically. the most efficient method of domestic solar panels is pool heating. supposed to save tons of money.

[kari]

240w Costco solar panels and equip.

http://www.costco.ca/Browse/Product....=1&topnav=&s=1


900W Wind Generator

http://www.costco.ca/Browse/Product....=1&topnav=&s=1