Sanity check: The only reason to build off-grid is if the Power Company wants more than $15,000 to run the lines to your house. If you are near the lines, and for some reason insist on not connecting, then you will be wasting $2 of every $3 your solar investment on batteries and maintenance for the rest of your life. Don't even think about it. In most states, with net metering, the grid is your storage system. And its FREE (well mine is about $5 a month minimum).
See http://aprs.org/off-grid-NOT.html Though some backwards states with fossil fueled politicians are holding back their state's progress on solar. Bob, WB4APR -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Gales via EV Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2016 10:29 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List; SEVA Subject: [EVDL] Off-grid solar house and electric car charging If you build an off-grid solar house and use it for both your house and charging your electric car, are there any disadvantages for using DC current (household appliances can all be converted to DC) and avoiding AC since you are off the grid? You avoid the cost, maintenance, and (slight) inefficiency of inverters, but are there significant disadvantages to this approach? Thanks, -- Larry Gales -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160605/ac5420 ed/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
