[stevehull]

Ron,

Excellent idea to use your extra solar/wind watts to do something more than overcharge your lead acid batteries.

You can buy an inexpensive ($100?) inverter our there to convert the DC to high quality 240 AC and connect this directly into your circuit panel. The chesap invertes make lousy sine wave ac - avoid them as they will inttroduce terrible electrical "noise" throughout your home.

But danger lurks as you MUST have a cut out switch to remove this AC source from your system in the event of a grid power failure.

Yes, you can use the circuit breaker in the cb box, but there are devices that automatically open a circuit of the grid main voltage goes down. Safety first.

Yes, we say we will all "remember" to disconnect the solar/wind load when power goes out, but the reality is that we forget. Do what allows you to sleep at night knowing that linemen (line women too) are out there working on your mains with power failure and a small back fed AC source kills these workers every year.

Steve