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Originally Posted by TurnerFam
I think solar is great as a secondary power for charging our batteries... but, living off-grid and expecting solar to ‘really’ be beneficial and financially frugal, you will need:
- enough batteries to sustain your electrical usage during much of the day, and much of the night
- enough solar panels/output to ‘fill’ your batteries within a set time
- enough ‘hours of sunshine’ each and every day for any of this to matter
- enough days without clouds and weather that inhibit the solar input
- enough consistent tilting of the panels in order to maximize solar input
- enough money to invest in such a system
- enough ‘room’ to store, carry and/or deploy the panels
- enough time ‘off-grid’ to warrant the investment
- enough time ‘off-generator’ to warrant the additional expense
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That's a whole of of "enoughs"...
But you sure gave us a lot of good things to consider!