Greetings!

I'm hoping the fine folks here can give me a hand. If there is another place better suited for this please let me know.

I inherited some parts to a solar system, and wanted to set up an off-grid solar/battery powered system.

Ultimately I would like to hook it up to my shed and power my greenhouse things and a few lights, or to power the fridge during a power outage, but to start out I just want to power a small system with a raspberry pi and webcam.

I'm not sure if the setup i've done so far is proper, or if I even have all the parts I need. I am willing to pick up more panels and components as needed and as I expand.

Currently I have: * CDT 50w panel * Sunsave-6 controller * 100Ah sealed gel marine battery * 300w power inverter.

Here is what I tried out today:

http://imgur.com/a/GVNh6

I'm assuming I have the basics right, since I was able to charge the battery a little bit. * At the start of the day and the battery connected directly to the inverter, nothing happened at all, no lights, nothing. * I then set up panel->controller->battery only for about 3 hours * I then put away the panel and controller, and again hooked up the inverter directly to the battery, and was able to run the raspberry pi for about an hour before the inverter started squealing, which if I understand correctly id due to the battery struggling to put out enough power.

Please please provide me with some feedback if possible. I'm rather inexperienced when it comes to electric work, so I want to make sure I dont blow anything up. If I am going in the right direction, i'd love suggestions as to the direction I should be going to make the setup more permanent, and eventually expand it.

Cheers!