Thanks Steve & Ford Guy
I think the wind gen controller does have a dump resistor as it is and that wouldn't be a bad idea to see if i could get a 200w water element to stick in one of the 3/4" holes in the water heater.
But i was thinking of a sort of small grid tie inverter that i could tie to a single house 120v circuit which had some pretty consistant small (or even large) loads.
That way it would only have to disconnect a single say #14 circuit from the mains on an outage but could pick up whatever it could otherwise.
Problem is it would have to be able to handle either or both of the generator or the panels or maybe a small (is it "islanding"?) Inverter for each.
But now i'm likely looking at $600 - $800 altogether
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