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I'm glad I finally made it on board. I'm 58 years old and plan on retiring in a few years. I plan on spending some of my time living in a small 12 x 16 foot off grid cabin that my dad built back in the 1970's. The rest of the time I'm going to travel in a van or perhaps tow a small trailer...

I live in Sacramento. The cabin is near Latrobe.

With the massive PG&E power outage in Northern California I bet a bunch of people will be looking at off grid solar systems. "This is ridiculous": Residents fume over power outage in Northern California...

I just back from a 5 day stay at my off grid cabin. I use a small ice maker that cost $100 and draws around 100 watts AC. I have a 400 watt system but started with 200 watts and it ran the ice maker with 200 if there's good sun. I don't have a problem with soggy food because I put the ice I...

I left the comment on the video you linked. Some commenters said that small ice makers use way more than a 100 watts. That's not the case for me. I had the Kill-A-Watt hooked up to mine on my last trip to the cabin and it was drawing between 120 and 95 watts depending on what part of the cycle...

Will recently made a DIY milk crate generator using a Bestek 500w PSW inverter. I'm thinking about buying one but I have a question. There's a YouTube video where the guy uses an oscilloscope to test the waveform on this inverter. The waveform is good with no load but has "ripples" when he loads...