Schedules didn't work out again.... Not giving up.
Almost spit my coffee out.
Very nice!
Yea, it really makes me want to cut the cord that much more, after my next expansion.
Damn, you use a lot of electricity! You must have a lot of constant loads or what? AC? Heat? 10 refrigerators?
Yea I figure a small generator with a charge-verter run would be less costly. I've got an old 50cc two stroke mitey-mite that's loud as hell but more than enough to cover my loads if run for awhile....has a 24v dc output for my battery pack. Yes currently just 24v stuff. My daily average usage is only 3.5kwh and that's with the occasional 12-15kwh day if we have guests in the all electric (heater) guest room.
whats your actual $/kw cost. just curious why you seem to be adding so much. decent roi or just pure hatred of the power company?
His roi plan includes competing with Chinese coal in the crypto market???
I use way more electricity now than I did when I had the grid. The base loads would be a chest freezer, refrigerator a few fans; in the winter the coal stove uses ~7KWh/day, 90% of these being a large convection fan I added. I have plans to upgrade it to something more efficient get next season. 12k BTU minisplit would be the next biggest load followed by cooking.
It's somewhere around $0.15 kw/h
Part of it, I use more now than I did before solar and battery. I also plan to get an EUV in the very near future and add more minsplits. It's also became a bit of an addiction, I already have the panels and mounting and I'm getting a great deal on cells (I hope).
Not really, know quite a few people that work for them.
Yea that's downright efficient for the average home. Depending on new regs and codes, Solar may eventually get so cheap that it may be cheaper and easier to just diy solar rather than have costly and labor intensive upgrades to all these old homes. The high labor costs and material cost here (home efficiency upgrades) are making it very expensive, and if one can diy solar than it's pretty much a break even sort of thing, efficient window installs are fairly easy and can be done one at a time. most of the houses our neighborhood will NEVER be put up to code as far as modern insulation R value for this climate and it is not high like in PA.
We have a dozen people in the neighborhood with grid tied solar installed on their homes with no sheathing (paper/wire/stucco only) and zero insulation in the walls. Oddly enough the few neighbors that have filled their walls with insulation and added extra in their attics havent seen the need for an expensive grid tied solar install here due to wildly high labor and upcharge costs.Excellent point.
Maybe I'll just keep buying batteries and panels
