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Due to the nature of a solar powered system there is lots of sun in the summer and not much sun in the winter, I've focused on building a setup that manages to run all winter and this has resulted in 'overspeccing' the solar panels and squeezing the efficiency of the system. It meant that in the summer there was excess solar power just going to waste. I thought about various ways we could use it up such as run more devices/services but it felt that this wasn't a positive use. Instead I thought we could use the excess power to run hydroponic grow lights and reap the benefits (literally).
## Successful setup
The whole process was a bit of an experiment and after a big fail of a start and some upgrades I did manage to grow a number of basil plants and their harvest resulted in fresh basil for cooking and at the end of the season we made pesto and coupled with our home grown (outside) tomatoes had a lovely meal of bruscheta (we didn't make the sourdough toast or the butter - apologies).
The whole process was a bit of an experiment and after a big fail of a start and some upgrades I did manage to grow a number of basil plants and their harvest resulted in fresh basil for cooking and at the end of the season we made pesto and coupled with our home grown (outside) tomatoes and onions had a lovely meal of make your own bruscheta (we didn't make the bread, hummous or mozzarella - apologies).
The approach that worked was to use the Kratky method of Hydroponics:
* 1 large container, 6 holes drilled into the lid