I have been for some time now trying to reduce my consumption of energy, this mainly came in the form of removing appliances that consumed a lot of energy for what they did. The solar panel on the roof was an attempt to remove some of the equipment that was connected all the time. As you have found out from other pages on my website I have a Hydroponics garden. It uses power when the pump runs for a couple of minutes every hour it also consumes power to run the SPLat control system. The other thing I have running is my experimental Aquaponics garden which uses power to aerate and circulate the water to the garden beds, this equipment runs all the time so that is what I am looking to reduce or eliminate. 

Picture 1 - Solar panel mounted to the roof.

Picture 2 - Control panel.

At the time of creating this web page the rated power of the Solar panel on the roof is 80W. The control panel which is a recycled electrical switch board and houses the main battery, solar controller and a Sine wave inverter. Below the battery can be seen the inverters main circuit breaker which is rated currently (no pun intended) at 70 Amps. The controller takes care of charging and maintaining the main battery which is a SLA or Sealed Lead Acid rated at 20 Amp Hours.

Currently the system has only been up and operating for half a day so I can't as yet comment on how it's going.