Hello all, new to the forums, but have been tinkering with solar for about 5 years now.
A little backstory.
I recently acquired a small cabin up in the mountains in Montana. It's around 2 miles from any electric access and currently it's being powered by only a generator. I'd like to add solar, and have an auto-start generator to maintain the batteries "hassle-free". The cabin will mainly be used to let friends and family come up and enjoy some time in the mountains and I'd personally like it to be as simple for them as possible and not have to mess with any kind of generator when they arrive.
I'm in the process of building a shop behind the cabin that will have a ~3k watt solar array on it and likely 2x Trophy Batteries 48v304E-2 for 30kwh of available power.
Shop will likely house the main panel and the cabin will be on a sub panel. I know there are hybrid inverters out there all the way from the low range of the 5k growatts for $800 all the way up to the solark 15ks for $7k+ that have an AGS option on them. I guess what I really want to know is what experience do any of y'all personally have with a setup like this and what hybrid inverter/generator combo do you run/like? I'm not opposed to spending money on a more expensive inverter if it's worth it for the application, but if a cheaper option will do what I need it to do I'll go that route.
If I could use the current generator on the property that would be a huge plus, it's a pretty expensive Perkins diesel generator with a 100gallon fuel tank and a little Dynagen ES52 Auto Start Generator Controller.
Perkins Generator
Only other question would be how are these typically wired in to the system? I've done a few decent sized off grid systems but nothing with a second power tie in alongside the solar.
Appreciate any help and any advice on products y'all are familiar with and like for this kind of application!
A little backstory.
I recently acquired a small cabin up in the mountains in Montana. It's around 2 miles from any electric access and currently it's being powered by only a generator. I'd like to add solar, and have an auto-start generator to maintain the batteries "hassle-free". The cabin will mainly be used to let friends and family come up and enjoy some time in the mountains and I'd personally like it to be as simple for them as possible and not have to mess with any kind of generator when they arrive.
I'm in the process of building a shop behind the cabin that will have a ~3k watt solar array on it and likely 2x Trophy Batteries 48v304E-2 for 30kwh of available power.
Shop will likely house the main panel and the cabin will be on a sub panel. I know there are hybrid inverters out there all the way from the low range of the 5k growatts for $800 all the way up to the solark 15ks for $7k+ that have an AGS option on them. I guess what I really want to know is what experience do any of y'all personally have with a setup like this and what hybrid inverter/generator combo do you run/like? I'm not opposed to spending money on a more expensive inverter if it's worth it for the application, but if a cheaper option will do what I need it to do I'll go that route.
If I could use the current generator on the property that would be a huge plus, it's a pretty expensive Perkins diesel generator with a 100gallon fuel tank and a little Dynagen ES52 Auto Start Generator Controller.
Perkins Generator
Only other question would be how are these typically wired in to the system? I've done a few decent sized off grid systems but nothing with a second power tie in alongside the solar.
Appreciate any help and any advice on products y'all are familiar with and like for this kind of application!