About Solar Homelabs
Solar Homelabs covers powering always-on homelab loads from solar: sizing a solar array against the worst month rather than the annual average, sizing a LiFePO4 battery bank for real runtime, choosing between MPPT and PWM charge controllers, sizing an inverter for surge and idle draw, and diagnosing a bank that has stopped accepting charge.
It is for people who want their rack to stay up when the grid does not. Capacity, efficiency and irradiance figures come from component datasheets and published solar resource datasets, cited on the page, and the sizing tool documents every constant it applies.
What is covered here
- Array Design
- Charge Controllers
- Power Systems
- Troubleshooting
There is also a solar and battery sizer, which turns a continuous rack load into a first-pass array wattage and LiFePO4 bank capacity. It runs entirely in the browser, stores nothing, and lists every assumption and derate constant it applies on the same page.
5 articles are published so far. New articles are announced on the RSS feed; there is no fixed publishing schedule and this site does not promise one.
How these articles are produced
Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before anything is published. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or a third-party measurement, the article names the source and links to it so you can check the original rather than take this site's summary of it.
Everything here is published under the Solar Homelabs Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a person, and no article on this site claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Nothing here should be read as a report of something this site physically tested.
Corrections
Getting it right matters more than getting it first. If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or missing the source it should cite, email editor@solarhomelabs.com with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly dropped.
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