I have a shed in my yard. I could dig a 100 foot trench and bury electricity to it, but have been thinking about doing solar out there. It is a shed where I mostly store my tools and do some minor projects occasionally. Most of my tools are battery powered. The electricity would be used for lighting and to keep my battery tools charged.

I was thinking about picking up this power station at Harbor freight.

https://www.harborfreight.com/350-watt-power-station-294-wh-capacity-70082.html

And a couple 100 watt solar panels to keep it charged.

https://www.harborfreight.com/100-watt-monocrystalline-solar-panel-57325.html

Good idea or bad?

Solar for shed?
byu/kirk2892 inenergy



by kirk2892

3 comments

  2. You might check out r/diySolar but if you are going to roof mount the panels, do not go cheap. Go get a couple of good 300+ watt panels and mount them properly. You should also look for take-off panels in FB marketplace and the like?

  3. I did something similar for my room. You can pick up an ecoflow 1Kwh battery, get a few panels off FB Market Place (1-2x 3-400 watts). Get a one or two MC4 cables and then you are all set. Plug in a few tools or lights to the battery and it will last a while depending on what you are doing and cheaper than buying from HF. Set you back about 900-1000$ for it all, but it can do a lot of basic stuff.

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