Off Grid Solar Powered Washing Machine

I am running our washing machine fully on solar panels costing us absolutely nothing for a load of laundry.

We have the Best Choice Products portable washing machine which is getting rave reviews in the RV and camping groups. This thing is light weight and very powerful. You can find them on Amazon here: Portable Washing Machine

They are under $100 and very much worth it for the quality.

I took the washing machine out to my off grid electronics work shop where I have 4 solar panels feeding 8 golf cart batteries. This provides all the power I need to run my electronics experiments, charge up devices and batteries and it powers my entire off grid wood shop.

I ran an extension cord from the power inverter to the washing machine. I put the washing machine on a pallet to keep it off the ground.

I use a 5 gallon bucket to fill the portable washing machine after loading the laundry in. This machine looks small but takes a decent sized load of clothes.

I run my washing machine for 6 minutes and then soak the clothes for a while in between wash cycles.

When the washing is done I put half the clothes in the spin side for two minutes. The clothes come out amazingly dry considering that this little machine only uses 240 watts to spin the clothes.

The washing side only uses 120 watts of power. This means that only one of my solar panels is needed to power this little washing machine.

The solar power battery bank was in float mode when I started to wash the clothes. This means that the batteries were fully topped off. When I was done washing, the batteries were still in float mode.

This is the perfect off grid portable washing machine.

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