Quattrohead
Solar Wizard
Hello all,
I am planning to build a new house and have the desire and opportunity to go off grid due to no city water/sewer, so I will have my own well and septic.
House is in the Florida central east coast area and will be 6" ICF concrete walls, closed cell spray foam roof insulation and high quality double pane windows and doors, variable speed HVAC heat pump and hybrid water heater. In other words very energy efficient. The heat load calculated to around 2.5 tons for 2500 sq/ft.
I have a spreadsheet of the electrical circuits and I am wondering how to split them up between 24/7 essential circuits and non critical circuits.
Initially it seems obvious...AC and keep the lights on at night !!!!
But I would also like some fail over built in, as in if one solar system develops a fault I can switch essentials over to the "other" system.
I am using Emporia to monitor our power usage at our current old house built in 1980 so it basically acts like a greenhouse LOL, terrible insulation. I don't think our usage pattern is going to change too much, thinking less AC load replaced by pool and well pumps.
I am planning to build a new house and have the desire and opportunity to go off grid due to no city water/sewer, so I will have my own well and septic.
House is in the Florida central east coast area and will be 6" ICF concrete walls, closed cell spray foam roof insulation and high quality double pane windows and doors, variable speed HVAC heat pump and hybrid water heater. In other words very energy efficient. The heat load calculated to around 2.5 tons for 2500 sq/ft.
I have a spreadsheet of the electrical circuits and I am wondering how to split them up between 24/7 essential circuits and non critical circuits.
Initially it seems obvious...AC and keep the lights on at night !!!!
But I would also like some fail over built in, as in if one solar system develops a fault I can switch essentials over to the "other" system.
I am using Emporia to monitor our power usage at our current old house built in 1980 so it basically acts like a greenhouse LOL, terrible insulation. I don't think our usage pattern is going to change too much, thinking less AC load replaced by pool and well pumps.