MTboatguy
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Re: Living off the grid
kahuna,
Have you figured out what your amp requirements per day are yet? If not, you need to calculate your requirements, that will give you a far better knowledge of what it is going to take to go even partially off the grid. I have a 15KW generator and several solar panels with a large amount of batteries, I can go fully off, partially off, or remain on the grid pretty much anytime I want, during the winter, we pretty much stay with the power company unless of course we have a large weather event, the longest I have been without power is about 13 days and we were able to stay on our own during that time. Fuel for the generation system is expensive an solar panel efficiency during the winter is pretty poor. If I have to use my generator I always have the battery system charging while I use it. I also have a smaller generator that I can charge the battery bank with as well.
What is nice is during the summer, I sell power back to the power company, which offsets some of my costs Like I said earlier, it is not cheap to be off the grid, so if you are doing it to save money, most times you will at best break even after you figure all of the costs. It is nice being independent if needed
But as I said, if you have not figured out your amp requirements, then you need to and that will give you a path to follow to even being partially off the grid.
kahuna,
Have you figured out what your amp requirements per day are yet? If not, you need to calculate your requirements, that will give you a far better knowledge of what it is going to take to go even partially off the grid. I have a 15KW generator and several solar panels with a large amount of batteries, I can go fully off, partially off, or remain on the grid pretty much anytime I want, during the winter, we pretty much stay with the power company unless of course we have a large weather event, the longest I have been without power is about 13 days and we were able to stay on our own during that time. Fuel for the generation system is expensive an solar panel efficiency during the winter is pretty poor. If I have to use my generator I always have the battery system charging while I use it. I also have a smaller generator that I can charge the battery bank with as well.
What is nice is during the summer, I sell power back to the power company, which offsets some of my costs Like I said earlier, it is not cheap to be off the grid, so if you are doing it to save money, most times you will at best break even after you figure all of the costs. It is nice being independent if needed
But as I said, if you have not figured out your amp requirements, then you need to and that will give you a path to follow to even being partially off the grid.
