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RE: Off-Grid: Berkey Water Filter and a Full 1000 Gallon Cistern of Drinking Water
Great post jack. I wanted to comment on your future plans to put your batteries in the shed (which I assume will not be temperature regulated). Depending on how cold it gets in your area you may have a large reduction in capacity as battery temperatures cool. Heres a chart from Surrette, they make some of the better solar battery sets. Lower quality batteries will do worse in the winter.
Thanks @normok - looks like it will have to be a well insulated passive solar shed with a green house on the south side of it - with battery gas venting somehow. The 0*C battery performance looks not too shabby, I should be able to maintain that temp in there.