mike95490
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( whoops - may have botched my first post, or maybe it didn't go through)
Anyway, been off grid +10 years in No Calif, with 5kw of PV, a large NiFe battery bank @ 48v, and a modern house, but no air conditioning. I may have to rethink the air cond, summers getting hotter and I have extra capacity in summer, might go with a mini-split and get some heat options in winter too.
I'm a retired engineer, we have off-grid pumped pond water with slow sand sanitizing filter and ozone follow up.
Heating is via a Masonry Heater ( contra-flow convoluted brick to extract all the heat from the fire ) with a water heating loop and summer rooftop solar water heat.
foul weather ( rain, clouds, wildfire smoke ) power backup is a 6hp Lister style diesel genset
solar: http://tinyurl.com/LMR-Solar
gen: http://tinyurl.com/LMR-Lister
Anyway, been off grid +10 years in No Calif, with 5kw of PV, a large NiFe battery bank @ 48v, and a modern house, but no air conditioning. I may have to rethink the air cond, summers getting hotter and I have extra capacity in summer, might go with a mini-split and get some heat options in winter too.
I'm a retired engineer, we have off-grid pumped pond water with slow sand sanitizing filter and ozone follow up.
Heating is via a Masonry Heater ( contra-flow convoluted brick to extract all the heat from the fire ) with a water heating loop and summer rooftop solar water heat.
foul weather ( rain, clouds, wildfire smoke ) power backup is a 6hp Lister style diesel genset
solar: http://tinyurl.com/LMR-Solar
gen: http://tinyurl.com/LMR-Lister