I want to eventually have my entire house on solar but I live in the Caribbean and we have one power company. There are times where they take power for no reason and it's becoming frustrating and can easily damage my appliances. We also get hurricanes and my roof has not been fixed (rather patched up with cheap galvanize while waiting on FEMA to start work. Been so since hurricane Maria in 2017).
So anyway...I want to build a system to be able to run my refrigerator and possibly fans incase of a power outage. I installed smart bulbs that run for a few hours in an outage and they recharge so I'm more concerned about comfort on hot nights and keeping food from going bad.
How can I know how many panels and battery I would need to run at minimum my refrigerator all day because I'll at least look to run it off grid for now until I build up my system and add more home appliances?
So anyway...I want to build a system to be able to run my refrigerator and possibly fans incase of a power outage. I installed smart bulbs that run for a few hours in an outage and they recharge so I'm more concerned about comfort on hot nights and keeping food from going bad.
How can I know how many panels and battery I would need to run at minimum my refrigerator all day because I'll at least look to run it off grid for now until I build up my system and add more home appliances?