How much solar power required?

is interesting question.. i am building my t/c to be self sufficent and looked into that..the battery bank and solar needed to run the a/c is huge..the system i designed for mine was 1,000 watts of panels and 3 12v floor sweeper batteries and it wouldn't able to deal with the load of a t/c a/c unit running constantly..this was enough to power the refer, water heater, lights and fans for the swamp cooler though even on cloudy days..