Taking lights and internet off the Grid (mostly)

IdlePhaedrus said:
Something like this would be a lot cheaper: https://www.ellies.co.za/product/sinewave-inverter-with-trolley-2000va-modified-1200w/

And you wouldn't also need to wire it up to the DB board directly (and the cost for an electrician to do it to get a certificate of compliance).

The inverters are noisy though..
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I have this invertor + 4 batteries, hardwired into the full DB so i can use anything as long long its not overloaded. mostly run some lights, wifi, alarm and can use TV as well.
On constant charge from 220V supply.
 
We can no longer look at getting off the grid for 4 or 8 hours a day. We now need to start looking at and planning for outages that could last weeks or months at a time. This is where our challenges are about to start.
 
Lew Skannen said:
We can no longer look at getting off the grid for 4 or 8 hours a day. We now need to start looking at and planning for outages that could last weeks or months at a time. This is where our challenges are about to start.
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Luckily I did this in 2012 already. We're 95% off grid and I am now looking at going 100% off grid, with Eskom backup to save on batteries when Eskom is available. We have minimized electricity usage at night to about 400W average per hour so it's manageable at this stage.

My next plan is to have battery backup for our outside lights, internet and solar monitoring system, in-case our primary battery backup runs out before the sun recharge the battery again.
 
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