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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
How much money do you have to spend?
Do you have any related skill sets to solar install or power generation?
First thing you need to do is save as much power as possible. Get all gas appliances, if you already have them great. If not that could get spendy.
That reminds me I need to find a gas dryer.
Insulate the house as much as possible. If you want air conditioning you can pretty much forget about your current machine. Unless you just happened to replace it recently with a high efficiency inverter unit.
It is cheaper to save power rather than install more panels, more battery and a bigger/more inverter(s).
If you don't have natural gas consider solar water heating.
For me to go off grid I would need to cut current electrical use in half and go on about a $15,000 spending spree and that's me installing it my self, I have all the wire and probably all the connectors I would need (budget at least $1,000 for just wire and connectors ) and I already have backup generators (saving $3,000 to $4,000).
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Thankfully I do have the electrical skill to do the solar installation and do it all correctly and mostly my self My only thing would be finding time . Unfortunately . I wasn't gifted in Legal terminology also. So this is throwing me for a loopy loop. You say gas appliances . My question is why to me that is kinda robbing peter to pay for paul. Only benifit (other than cost of battery storage is money. Water heating you can use an electrical heat pump or one could go as far as a geothermal water heater.(Not sure if anyone has yet) Cooking can be done with solar. Cooking is the only thing i can see having gas for I have never owned a dryer always have used a clothes line but one could probably design one with solar and maybe a dehumidifier. (only a concept yes more to it than that i know
.) My unit right now is just the same one i installed a few years ago cheapy kozy kool 12k inverter unit and i only cool half of the home any ways the other side we dont air condition becuase we dont stay in there. A few winters ago i did design a 12 by 8 solar air heater to keep it warm in there in winter It came on at 9 and off at 3. I believe i posted a picture and some stuff on it . Still planning on just doing geothermal for my heating,cooling and water heating. Have plenty of time to decide on that being current method works.