Peter VanDerWal said: > My 3kw solar array paid for itself years ago. It produces all of the energy > used in my house > for heating, cooling, cooking, etc. as well as 1/2 the energy used by my > vehicles.
I wish. A 3 KW solar array would hardly make a dent at my house. My about 9 KW array covers about half of my electrical consumption. And that is not covering cooking (except the microwave), space heating, or water heating. And I don't have an EV (yet). And this is southern California where we really do get lots of sun. But my house is unusual - or more appropriately the stuff in it. About the lowest my load ever gets is about 2.4KW. There are five aquariums between 40 and 90 gallon with thermostatic heaters, air pumps and filters running 24x7, five reptile enclosures with heaters running 24x7, and my data cabinet runs about 300 watts (more when it's hot and the AC runs more). Lastly is my waterbed heater draws 400 watts when it is running (how much that is depends on the weather and how well we are at making the bed). I am really looking forward to the older son moving out and taking the reptiles and several of the aquariums with him. At that point, my solar will provide most of my total consumption. Jim Walls _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
