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Lesson 1 - Introduction

2 - Authors

3 - Background

4 - What the system can run

5 - System limitations

5.1 Battery life expectancy

5.2 Battery usable energy during discharge cycle

5.3 Battery Discharge Protection

5.4 12V versus 24V and 48V

5.5 1000 Watt Inverter power limitations

5.6 Inverter Current Drain - No Load Current

5.7 Inverter life cycle

6 - Bill of Materials

6.1 Solar PV panel

6.2 Solar Charge Controller

6.2.1 Victron VE.Direct to USB interface

6.3 Battery

6.4 Inverter

6.5 Shunt and Battery Monitor

6.6 Safe disconnects/isolators

6.7 Fuses

6.8 Cabling

6.9 Terminals

6.10 Tools

6.11 Engel Refrigerator

6.12 5 V supply

7 - Construction

8 Configuration of Victron MPPT Charge Controller

8.1 Tools required

8.2 Reference materials for configuration of MPPT Charge Controller

8.3 Additional reading material

9 - Victron SmartShunt Configuration

10 Monitoring System using Raspberry Pi

10.1 WiFi Adapter

11 - Estimated Carbon Emissions

11.1 Carbon Emissions associated with Battery Manufacture

11.2 Carbon Emissions associated with Solar PV panels

11.3 Embodied carbon emissions associated with Inverter

11.4 Carbon footprint of Copper cables

11.5 Summary of Embodied Emissions in Solar PV Systems

11.6 Emissions Intensity for Solar System per kilowatt-hour

11.7 Emissions intensity from electricity generation in Australia

11.8 Carbon budgets