Solar System Design

Well, what did the market come up with in the way of commercial poroposals?

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/79847

<...5380 watts per hour...> is meaningless.

It's watts, not watts/h. Watt is a unit of power

Your system should be based on 5 hrs of sun a day....The capacity of your array should be able to run equipment and charge battery bank at the same time...Your battery bank capacity should allow for cloudy days (this would be based on how critical the application was)....So depending on how much battery bank capacity you choose, the array size would vary...but you would start with a minimum of daily watt usage X2...

This is what your solar system should look like.

Your required Energy per 24h is 5380*24/1000 = 129 kWh take it 130 kWh

SPV required (as per your data), will be: Number of units = 1000*130/240/8 =~ 68 panels

Your proposed number will only give 77 kWh / 8h Insolation.

Inverter: This must be able to handle your 5.38 kW which will be 6.725 kVA at 0.8 p

Batteries: Your total number of batteries and their capacity will give you 153.6 ~ 157 kWh (at 50% discharge) Which is OK for now.

At last, you should increase your production by 50% and take the number of effective insolation hours to be 6h only.

Sorry, an error creeped into the Batteries line of my comment:

the batteries you propose to use will only give 76.8 kWh at 50% discharge. You will need another 2 sets of 16 batteries to achieve the 157 kWh storage capacity (your configuration!).

Otherwise, 54 batteries of 200AH in 18 x 2 giving 216V if suitable for your Inverter...?! (~130 kWh) at 50% discharge.