Resistance is Fertile
Hey offgridders and those considering it, welcome back! This post will be all about hot water without mains electricity or natural gas. It’s pretty important and in fact in most parts of Aus you won’t be able to get an occupancy certificate with out provision for it.
So what are the common options? There’s a wetback for a wood heater, LPG storage or instantaneous, solar thermal or a heat pump system. Continue reading “Off Grid Hot Water Part 1”
Research on batteries can be really confusing when you start. Hopefully this post can help you dig down to just the factors that are important when selecting a battery type. First though, here’s the rule; battery technology is moving so fast whatever you select will be close to outdated by the time you install it. So don’t worry about the latest and greatest, just worry about what will do the job for you. Continue reading “Off Grid Solar Part 3 – Batteries”
Finally we have our solar installed and just waiting for inspection!
Pretty soon our shed will be powered up. A trench will take the power line from there to the house when it’s built. In the meantime there will be a short power pole for the builders with a power point at the corner of the house site.
This bad person is a Red Earth Drop Bear system. We were originally going to use a German made B-Box unit for the battery storage but since then Australian made lithium iron batteries have come on the market in quantity. This system is a drop in with the batteries, charge controllers and inverters all housed in the cabinet pre-wired. More on this unit when it’s finally installed – another saga! Who’d have expected that hey? Continue reading “Off Grid Solar Part 2”