Off Grid
Fellow eco-renovators
The inverter/batteries are working well but with extreme air-conditioning plus cooking at night the batteries are at the bottom of their charge in the morning. To be expected
We just experienced 2 days overcast and the air-conditioning did cycle but not much. We did obtain a surprising amount of power but not enough to make it to the next days sun. Back to the grid for 6 hour in the wee hours.
I did need to make a bit of an experiment of heating water with the back-up element. "No sun no solar hot water from our collectors." It did work quite well heating with elements.
We will need a lot larger battery as we would like to live with solar off grid without compromise. Or with limited life changes as we had done all the conservation exercises.
The best news was running the calculations for the 2 initial weeks off grid we saved 810 Kwhs or $169.00 Cnd
Photo of the completed 20 kw 240 volt inverter
Randen
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