Posted on 10/12/2019 8:18:51 AM PDT by Hojczyk
This was a misstatement.
They can run their home indefinitely without the utility.
how deep is your well?
Smart people keep their electric cars charged. Same as gasoline cars, you don't want to leave it near-empty in case of an emergency. And electric cars have batteries that can be used to power devices in the home during a blackout.
Having said that, I can't believe how stupid solar-panel users are if they didn't install storage batteries! Extremely stupid! The other thing about solar panels, is that they are often damaged or destroyed during storms. They are fragile.
384 ft and it will run for 2 hours using about 40% of battery storage, but it is setup on a float on a 10,000 gallon water tank, so it only runs 40 minutes until it is full and shuts off.
where do you keep your storage tank?
Mountains above Los Angeles, and tank is 200 feet up the hill from well, which then gravity feeds irrigation and house 1000 feet away and 600 feet lower.
I have had this hooked up for over 10 years now and it has worked flawlessly, Never a problem. I will make one note though, I originally had a xantrex charge controller, but it turned out to be a piece of crap and I went through a lot of water in batteries and cooked one set a couple years ago. So I switched to an MPPT Digital controller I found on ebay for $100. 10 times better and water usages is very little now.
Magnum MS4024 PAE Grid Tie Inverter/Charger
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