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I get your point, but the "can't fight city hall" complacency is what lead us to where we are now, with it getting increasingly difficult to do *anything*. Pretty soon we won't be able to do ANYTHING at all without "permission" of this increasingly powerful government nanny, and the inevitably...

Also agree 100%. If you're doing this DIY, it's on you to know what you need and to understand what you're buying. You simply MUST be able to read and understand what every single number on a spec sheet means. And if there's a number you don't understand the meaning of, ASK and figure it out...

Many didn't, but the rest did it without a nanny government's permission. ?

Philosophically, I disagree on all three of these counts. To me, these are all nanny-state intrusions on the very notion of private property ownership and personal responsibility and accountability. If I want to live off-grid, my power situation is mine and mine alone and affects nobody else...

Wow. Government run amok. In Florida, I can pull an owner-builder permit to do *anything* building my own house. Still have to meet code & pass inspections of course (which is another separate conversation). Only restriction is, O-B can't turn around and sell it within a year.

Man that's a depressing set of predictions, but I can totally see it going down like that in light of everything that's already happened. The question is, when do we say "Enough!" and stop complying with this creeping tyrannical oligarchy?

Just the mininum amount of research and due diligence would have clarified the situation for you. I'm no solar expert and I'm planning on using a 12k for our off-grid setup. Even the simple one-page spec sheet says the 12k delivers 12,000W as "max PV power delivered to battery and AC outputs"...

And this is how nanny state government becomes overt tyranny.

That's because these governments pushing the climate change agenda privately don't really believe their own narrative - the whole thing is really just about CONTROL of the population. I don't know why so many people can't recognize this. Fundamental human nature hasn't changed; there has...

Yep. After we bought our 10 acres of raw AG land in south Florida, the first thing we did was buy a Kubota L3901 with brush hog, grader/scraper, and post hole auger. Has been absolutely indispensable, wouldn't want the land if I couldn't have a tractor.

^^ This "Public utilities" are for all intents and purposes, monopolistic corporatist extensions of an oligarchal government. After seeing everything governments have been doing over the past couple years, it is dangerously naive to think governments and quasi-government institutions (ie...

The difference between "conspiracy theory" and historical fact is about 6-12 months. Did you miss this week's recent news sbout Neuralink? If you don't see the globalist moves towards a high tech neo-feudalism, you're either not paying attention, or you're being willfully blind.

I'm extremely interested in a HPHW for our Florida off-grid build because it seems like a solution tailor-made for our application. My plan is to put it in the same utility room where the batteries and Sol-Ark will live. Voila! Waste heat from the electrical equipment produces our DHW, and...

? I'm in FL and although I've seen people on social media claim it's "illegal to be off grid in Florida", nobody making this claim has been able to cite any state or local ordinances establishing this. I've looked and I can find no such law. My situation is, I'm going to need to get a CO for a...

This will be interesting. I've got rural acreage with no grid power on it at all. No poles, no drop. There is a line on the county road that I've got frontage on, but I have no intention of connecting to it; going to be completely off-grid (private well and septic too). I'm prepared to get a...

Yep the bore holes for the footings are going to be a pain in the arse. I've resigned myself to that. I have a tractor with a PTO post hole auger for the 3 point, and I'm in south Florida where the ground is just sand, so shouldn't be too terrible. I just need to get a 16" bit for the auger...

Short of nuclear fuel, nothing beats liquid hydrocarbons for energy density. IMO, for any transportation purpose it makes MUCH more sense to use abundant daytime PV power to produce synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuels from atmospheric CO2, rather than using batteries.

Looking for any input from anyone in Florida who is running completely off-grid with power from solar & battery. And by off-grid I mean no connection to the grid at all, no utility power on the lot, period. We own rural AG acreage in FL with no utility power on it and intend to put up a small...

Amen. I didn't play along with the whole, well, you know, the thing. I'm not going to start now.

Yes I know I'm going to need to talk to the county; I'm just trying to gather input from others who may have done something similar so I'm going into it as informed as possible. ?

I'm still perplexed by all this angst over the Sol-Ark's naming convention. It makes sense to me and should make sense to any noob with rudimentary understanding of these devices. Here's the relevant part of the 15k's spec page: It's right there on the second line: "Max PV power delivered...

Yep I appreciate that. I particularly appreciate the very demanding Florida building codes, having come through hurricane Ian. I'm not criticizing building and electrical codes in general because as you said, they're generally sensible best practices.

I'm another Florida self-build. Curious - are you going to be completely off-grid? EDIT: just saw on another thread that you are indeed fully off-grid. What stage are you at, and have you had any County issues with being fully off-grid? Always looking for other FL off-gridders to connect with.

We've got rural AG acreage in Florida that we're DIY'ing into a completely off-grid homestead. There is no grid power on the property as it was a vacant, unused former citrus grove before we bought it. There's a power line on the county road we front, but we have no intention of bringing it...

Southwest. Inland Charlotte county.

Yep, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

So I'm shopping for approx 5KW of PV for an off-grid home we're building, looking for panels in the 460-530w range. I found a local seller who has a variety of "B-grade" Heliene panels which he says are unused, straight from the factory but have cosmetic blemishes and no factory warranty...

I'm working up a plan for a 6KW ground array using Iron Ridge hardware, and I see where you can use either schedule 40 pipe or mechanical tube - wondering if anyone here has an opinion on one vs. the other. Availability, cost, workability, etc. At this point I'm leaning towards the tube...

Anybody using any sort of of automatic fire suppression system on solar systems installed indoors? Obviously not talking about water sprinkers since water doesn't work well on electrical fires. I'm not particularly paranoid about fire (will be using UL9540 LFP batteries), I know these are...

Best I can tell, tubing is made to closer tolerances than pipe and is measured differently, primarily by outside diameter. It's a bit confusing. I'm just trying to figure out what to use since Iron Ridge leaves it up to the end user to get their own material for the piers and cross pipes.