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You can of course use your batteries on a regular basis even without solar, and even offset your expenses by filling them up during lower-cost times if your uti
by bdcravens 2y ago
You can of course use your batteries on a regular basis even without solar, and even offset your expenses by filling them up during lower-cost times if your utility provides that.
Additionally, a good tri-fuel generator is often less than $1000 so you have power even if you can't get petrol.
- mindslight 2y agoYes, that exception was the main dynamic I gave. But the cost of setting up a large enough system to have those options is at least one and half orders of magnitude more than the generator. I stayed away from discussing propane because it's adding another variable. I too thought that was the way to go, until I realized it doesn't work so well in the winter because the self-evaporation rate is too low. It my experience it takes 3x 20lb tanks teed together to run my small 2500 watt inverter generator, and the baseline load isn't even that much.