Xantrex Technology XS400 manual Battery Sizing Worksheet

Estimating Battery Requirements

This example illustrates how quickly your battery needs can escalate. To reduce the required battery size, you can conserve energy by eliminating or reducing the use of some loads or by re-charging more frequently.

When sizing your battery, resist the temptation to skip the last step of this calculation (multiplying by 2). More capacity is better since you will have more reserve capacity, be better able to handle large loads and surge loads, and your battery won't be discharged as deeply. Battery life is directly dependent on how deeply the battery is discharged. The deeper the discharge, the shorter the battery life.

Battery Sizing Worksheet

Use the following worksheet to calculate your battery needs. To ensure sufficient battery capacity, be generous when estimating the operating time per day for each of the loads you will run.

			Daily watt-hours
	(A) Power	(B) Operating	needed for this
	Consumption	Time per Day	appliance
Appliance	(Watts)	(Hours)	(= A x B)
	W	hours	Wh
	W	hour	Wh
	W	hours	Wh
	W	hours	Wh
	W	hours	Wh
	W	hours	Wh
Total daily watt-hours of AC load			Wh
x Number of days between charges
= Total watt-hours of AC load between charges			Wh
Battery Ah used between charges (divide by 10)			Ah
Recommended Battery Bank Size in Ah (multiply by 2)			Ah

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