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It started with a four-day outage one July two years ago. Being on a well, no electricity = no water. No water = no flushing. No flushing = I won’t go there. I wanted a backup generator but was outvoted: the family insisted on something independent and renewable. What better than the sun...

I had no idea the pergola would serve multiple purposes when I built it. Adding the mounts for the panels turned out to be easy. The VAWT is on an antenna mast so I can lower it for maintenance. It kind of falls between the top of the roof and the chimney. Interestingly, since I added the second...

As far as I know, this Model of MPP doesn't allow any kind of power transfer back to the grid, only from. They do have models that permit that. Of course, in the two-and-a-half years since I started, there has never been another outage. Figures. The interlocked bypass breakers on the backup...

Wait a minute. The HAWT is on the antenna mast. The VAWT is about six feet off the ground. Sorry.

They interlock, but are otherwise unattached to anything just lying on th roof. I plan on working on tilting them soon.