TL;DR. Not possible for under $10k
Would anyone be interested on putting our heads together and designing and building a dual source solar and wind electrical backup system over the winter? We can share thoughts, research, progress pics and results over NES. Having the support of other NESers working on the same project would be a good motivator and remove some of my apprehension about undertaking this project.
My requirements for my systems are flexible, but go something like this...
- Ability to power several appliances for a few hours each day or my well pump when needed.
- I do not need "hot" fail over. Throwing some switches once per day during a blackout is fine.
- My assumption is that I can use wind when there is no sun (hence the dual source idea), but some sources believe this would be a waste of time/money
- I'm not a "make everything from scratch" purist.
- I would like to avoid "budget" components that will fail when needed most.
- I'm thinking the all in budget will be 1k-2k
Thoughts?
Would anyone be interested on putting our heads together and designing and building a dual source solar and wind electrical backup system over the winter? We can share thoughts, research, progress pics and results over NES. Having the support of other NESers working on the same project would be a good motivator and remove some of my apprehension about undertaking this project.
My requirements for my systems are flexible, but go something like this...
- Ability to power several appliances for a few hours each day or my well pump when needed.
- I do not need "hot" fail over. Throwing some switches once per day during a blackout is fine.
- My assumption is that I can use wind when there is no sun (hence the dual source idea), but some sources believe this would be a waste of time/money
- I'm not a "make everything from scratch" purist.
- I would like to avoid "budget" components that will fail when needed most.
- I'm thinking the all in budget will be 1k-2k
Thoughts?
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