RE: Solar Power When Off-Grid from Hurricane
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We lost power for about 16 hours during Milton. I would love to have solar but it just isn't in the budget. Also, unless I could run my AC, I wouldn't consider it to be a sufficient backup solution, lol.
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Our 14kw propane generator we had in Vermont wasn't enough to power the AC either. Not sure all the requirements for that. Our Solar does power both of them, but the power usage of course goes way up. Runs out the Solar batteries in about 6-8 hours during the hot summer days where they are running near constant. Without the AC as you can see we get more like 24-36 hours on the batteries, so they can recharge the next day. The solar does produce enough to run the AC and power the house/other on the Sunny Days, so for short outages would be just fine. Given this our first real outage, and knowing it would be extended from the storm and cloudy weather, we were very conservative, wanting to ensure other power for as long as we could. It wasn't so bad "roughing it" for the few days without. lol