Maverick
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It's a whole different life changing experience, once the whole house is setup on low voltage and gas, a person needs to retrain their mind since everything becomes on demand only and operationally time limited (no leaving the lights on, entertainment systems limited to a couple of hours a day, two minute showers etc..) than the cost of maintenance. A 5kw inverter isn't cheap roughly $2k (American made) and add the cost of batteries that may need replacing every 5 to 8 years.
I think for the mean time I'll stick with my 10kw propane generators for when the house power goes down since I already have the bulk propane tanks, the generators burn about 1lb an hour at 50% load but since I'm really using them for frig/freezer and well pumps the generator only needs to run 2hrs a day, only opening the frig/freezers when the generator is running, the well pump is only running to fill the holding tank so the generator won't even be running at 50%. the frig in the shop I would switch it over to gas. We have on demand water heaters for the bathroom and kitchen, 2 minute showers (total water run time) is the rule (except for the Wife) we don't go through a lot of propane, two 500gal propane tanks will last a couple of years if need be, our stove is gas though a good part of our cooking is by wood stove or outside pit. For those reasons I just don't see the benefits of going all out low voltage/solar setup given the additional expense, I do have solar battery maintainers for all the equipment and vehicles plus some goal zero charging equipment for communications and rechargeable batteries.
I think for the mean time I'll stick with my 10kw propane generators for when the house power goes down since I already have the bulk propane tanks, the generators burn about 1lb an hour at 50% load but since I'm really using them for frig/freezer and well pumps the generator only needs to run 2hrs a day, only opening the frig/freezers when the generator is running, the well pump is only running to fill the holding tank so the generator won't even be running at 50%. the frig in the shop I would switch it over to gas. We have on demand water heaters for the bathroom and kitchen, 2 minute showers (total water run time) is the rule (except for the Wife) we don't go through a lot of propane, two 500gal propane tanks will last a couple of years if need be, our stove is gas though a good part of our cooking is by wood stove or outside pit. For those reasons I just don't see the benefits of going all out low voltage/solar setup given the additional expense, I do have solar battery maintainers for all the equipment and vehicles plus some goal zero charging equipment for communications and rechargeable batteries.