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Off-grid and happy, can you guess what inverter I am using?

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Without looking through my old post, please take a guess what inverter(brand/type of setup) I am using and what voltage my DC is? Family of 5 and we have A/C.

We are doing great, but what is the minimum setup for making off-grid without living like savages?
 
i would have said in order of my own preference,,, Magnum, victron, schneider/xantrex/ whatever they were prior to xantrex and then chineese junk dumped on the US and sold by all of the youtube/yachting forum fanboys.
 
Without looking through my old post, please take a guess what inverter(brand/type of setup) I am using and what voltage my DC is? Family of 5 and we have A/C.

We are doing great, but what is the minimum setup for making off-grid without living like savages?
Insufficient data in order to extrapolate. With 5 people, if any of them are female, your electrical needs are exponentially higher to avoid living like savages. Not to pick on savages as there are many that feel living that way is a good thing.

I will take a total guess and say you are a Victron user and run at 12vDC. Your kids hate you and the Wife is threatening Divorce.

(This post is meant to be humorous)
 
It depends on where you are. I could be comfortable with minimal air conditioning in Boston, but not in Louisiana.
 
Appliances;

Full power vacuum
1200w microwave
1800w toaster oven
800w washing machine
800w hot plate
2 deep freezers
1 non frost free fridge
1 9K mini split
1 12K mini split
and all the usual electronics, laptop, phones, ipads, LED lights, etc...

We heat with wood.

Well pump runs off a seperate 24v system but that is only because of distance/location. It is a soft start and only pulls 1,000w. House pressure pump only uses about 10watts.

We have a 20KW LiFePo4 bank
 
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Gonna go with something like a renogy or similar.
If it was a tier 1 item I don’t think this post would have been made
 
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Ok, some of you guessed 12v and Magnum. We have a 2800w 12v Magna-sine (made before the mexico switch). 8 SOK 12v 206a batts and 7 Victron 100/30 charge controllers. Not the most impressive system and many would consider it way to small. I got the inverter in a trade a few years back and it works very well. 12v can work if you already have allot of the pieces.

Point is this, it actually works really well for us. We can't use everything at once and some times the sun just doesn't cover. What we have found is, we don't need as much as we think we do. Running the gennie sometimes is still cheaper then grid power line fee.

We are putting together a 48v system with multiple Victron SCC's and a 5K Multiplus II. BUT, I am also working on needing less or ZERO power and putting in some hand water pumps, dedicated wood cooking, etc.....Soo, we are also improving and working back wards at the same time. Don't think you need to replicate the grid to go off grid and succeed. In some ways, going less power can be MORE peaceful.

When we build this spring, our home will be built around no power as a core foundation. Something to think about...
 
7 100/30 victron SCC I’m guessing you bought those before the price crash, those set you back a few pennies.
 
7 100/30 victron SCC I’m guessing you bought those before the price crash, those set you back a few pennies.
I actually got 16 of them. Spares are going to a 24v system and am adding a couple more strings to the 12v system soon. My favorite SCC, hands down. I got them after returning a bunch of Epevers back to Amazon. I'm getting 100/20(48)'s for my 48v build. I'm thing about 10 of them. Looking forward to the lower price.
 
One nice feature of the victron; wireless (bluetooth, on SmartSolar devices) between controllers enables them to talk and sync their mode changes, so a RAIC is possible (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Controllers, an acronym I just made up).
I've plotted the numbers (for NZ dollars, before the price dropped) and in many situations, 2 smaller controllers are cheaper than 1 big controller plus you don't drop to zero productivity if one panel/connector/cable/controller goes out.
 
One nice feature of the victron; wireless (bluetooth, on SmartSolar devices) between controllers enables them to talk and sync their mode changes, so a RAIC is possible (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Controllers, an acronym I just made up).
I've plotted the numbers (for NZ dollars, before the price dropped) and in many situations, 2 smaller controllers are cheaper than 1 big controller plus you don't drop to zero productivity if one panel/connector/cable/controller goes out.
It helps deal with shading too! Also, I like running lower power density and lower voltage strings. Can't do that unless you run multiple SCCs.
 
I actually got 16 of them. Spares are going to a 24v system and am adding a couple more strings to the 12v system soon. My favorite SCC, hands down. I got them after returning a bunch of Epevers back to Amazon. I'm getting 100/20(48)'s for my 48v build. I'm thing about 10 of them. Looking forward to the lower price.
Will the app aggregate the data for all the separate controllers in a setup and give you a ‘system’ view?
 
Will the app aggregate the data for all the separate controllers in a setup and give you a ‘system’ view?
It doesn't. I wish it did. I thought about maybe Victron could add it but then they might want a person to just purchase the monitoring system they have. I've been to busy to figure out what direction I am going to go for whole system view.
 
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