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04-17-2012, 08:09 PM
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Off the grid
Anyone off the grid? What sources do you use? Wind, solar, battery banks, generators?
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04-17-2012, 08:11 PM
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Did some work at Nicolas Cage's "off the grid" script reading cabin. Solar power, well water.
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04-17-2012, 08:13 PM
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Did some work at Nicolas Cage's "off the grid" script reading cabin. Solar power, well water.
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Well water isn't off the grid. 
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04-17-2012, 08:29 PM
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Well water isn't off the grid. |
If you have a hand pump it is 
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04-17-2012, 08:30 PM
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if you aren't connected to utility companies, you are off the grid.
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04-17-2012, 08:31 PM
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it is if you dig it yourself, and set up the pumps to run off your solar system.
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04-17-2012, 08:36 PM
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it is if you dig it yourself, and set up the pumps to run off your solar system.
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Bump........
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04-17-2012, 08:58 PM
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I have a bridge "off the grid" at the moment. Its a fifty amp load and i think we are going thru around five or six hundred gallons of deisel a week. Redundant gennys, big Cat deisel prime power with lpg cummins standby.
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04-17-2012, 09:39 PM
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you can't post on the internet and be "off the grid"
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04-17-2012, 10:57 PM
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I have a customer right now that was running off the grid. He only has 400 watts worth of solar and a 1 kw wind turbine. I have to install an electric service next week so his girlfriend will move in with him.  She can't run her hair burner.
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04-18-2012, 12:48 AM
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3000 watts of PV solar
2 Outback charge controllers(80 & 60)
4000 watt Trace inverter
16 golf cart batteries
850 watt Bergy wind turbine on 84 ft tower(burned after lightning strike)
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04-18-2012, 05:25 AM
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Backstay, is your inverter oversized for efficiency or just future panels?
We just completed a small 4.6kW solar installation, and I was really surprised to see how much we lose through the inverter. I think the peak output under absolutely ideal conditions will be only 3kW and usually averages at about 2.5kW.
-John
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04-18-2012, 07:37 AM
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Backstay, is your inverter oversized for efficiency or just future panels?
We just completed a small 4.6kW solar installation, and I was really surprised to see how much we lose through the inverter. I think the peak output under absolutely ideal conditions will be only 3kW and usually averages at about 2.5kW.
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My inverter is sized to start and run the loads not the size of the array. Output of my panels is driven by angle to the sun and temp. My losses are in the conversion from DC to AC from the batteries. When it's cold(-20) I get more than 3000 watts from my array.
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04-18-2012, 07:42 AM
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3000 watts of PV solar
2 Outback charge controllers(80 & 60)
4000 watt Trace inverter
16 golf cart batteries
850 watt Bergy wind turbine on 84 ft tower(burned after lightning strike)
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Thanks. I knew you were off grid. How long have you been off grid?
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04-18-2012, 07:46 AM
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Thanks. I knew you were off grid. How long have you been off grid?
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18 years
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