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Posted by SHC's Walkers on 01-07-2018 05:49 AM:

Solar panels & kennels

Does anyone else use solar panels to power things like water bucket heaters & dog box heaters in the winter? Reason asking, we moved across the road into a 2 story house that has absolutely no room for my kennels on the property. I did however keep my 3 acres across the road & will continue to keep my hounds over there. The power has been turned off to the old house because it's going to he torn down & a machine shop built in its place but that will be a few yrs from now. I've thought of every way possible to run power across the road to them but it's just not possible. I'm looking to buy a solar panel or 2 & fix it up where I can have a little bit of power for my hounds for the rest of this winter & the next few. Any ideas or tips would be very much appreciated from me & the dogs. I'm all new to the solar power thing so I may sound like an idiot with questions if anyone has used it or does use it.

Posted by Josh Michaelis on 01-07-2018 05:52 AM:

Re: Solar panels & kennels

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Originally posted by SHC's Walkers
Does anyone else use solar panels to power things like water bucket heaters & dog box heaters in the winter? Reason asking, we moved across the road into a 2 story house that has absolutely no room for my kennels on the property. I did however keep my 3 acres across the road & will continue to keep my hounds over there. The power has been turned off to the old house because it's going to he torn down & a machine shop built in its place but that will be a few yrs from now. I've thought of every way possible to run power across the road to them but it's just not possible. I'm looking to buy a solar panel or 2 & fix it up where I can have a little bit of power for my hounds for the rest of this winter & the next few. Any ideas or tips would be very much appreciated from me & the dogs. I'm all new to the solar power thing so I may sound like an idiot with questions if anyone has used it or does use it.

The amount of Solar panels and batterys you would have to buy to power bucket and dog box heaters would be more expensive than doing a directional bore across the road to run electricity.

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Posted by jdgher on 01-07-2018 05:57 AM:

Agree

Just a bowl heater would be a challenge. Batteries to get through the night, I think it would take a lot of batteries. Turning the power back on, would be cheaper, I expect.

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Posted by B&Ttreed2017 on 01-07-2018 07:12 AM:

across the road

Be alot cheaper to set a new pole,get ya a meter loop and just put a couple outlet boxes on the pole.

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Posted by Jonathan Crump on 01-07-2018 01:58 PM:

Re: across the road

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Be alot cheaper to set a new pole,get ya a meter loop and just put a couple outlet boxes on the pole.

Find out what the minimum requirements are from your power company and set a pole with outlet boxes or run power to kennels.

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Posted by Bruce m. Conkey on 01-07-2018 04:10 PM:

Wouldn't a 12v water heater hooked to battery and then a small solar panel to keep battery charged work?

http://www.hydrogenappliances.com/stocktankheater.html

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Posted by Philip on 01-07-2018 04:44 PM:

Put up a couple few poles, I just cut some locust, with porcelain insulators, Put.then in ground four feet, with cement, run a out door wire over.
Put a led light on a pole would be handy. Coarse hard to do in the winter

Posted by Josh Michaelis on 01-07-2018 05:16 PM:

Re: .

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Originally posted by Bruce m. Conkey
Wouldn't a 12v water heater hooked to battery and then a small solar panel to keep battery charged work?

http://www.hydrogenappliances.com/stocktankheater.html

I am skeptical of those bruce. I think it would take a pretty big solar panel to run one, plus in say a kennel with 4 dogs, you would have to have 4 of those at $140 per. Plus at least a $100 solar panel, and a $100 deep cycle battery per. So you are looking at roughly $400 per kennel.

For $1600 you can have electricity

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