OK, not to promote issues on Christmas Eve, and understanding that millercarbon's comment(s) could and should be a bit more polite, he did raise a point that I have wondered about.
The suggestion was to have a battery bank, which agreed with what the electrician first suggested.
So in terms of absolute electrical quality, without regards to cost considerations, wouldn't a person be better off going off-grid with the battery bank and high quality inverter? I thought that was how the high quality power conditioners worked, using a battery bank to remove the poor quality of power received from the grid.
I've always wondered because the electrical requirements of the equipment are actually minimal. You wouldn't need a 100kw battery bank to go "off-grid" with a few outlets. You wouldn't have power fluctuations from when the A/C or pool pump starts or your neighbor decides to do some welding.
I suppose the cost considerations and even space considerations make it a difficult choice. But the other choices seem fairly complicated and expensive too.
The suggestion was to have a battery bank, which agreed with what the electrician first suggested.
So in terms of absolute electrical quality, without regards to cost considerations, wouldn't a person be better off going off-grid with the battery bank and high quality inverter? I thought that was how the high quality power conditioners worked, using a battery bank to remove the poor quality of power received from the grid.
I've always wondered because the electrical requirements of the equipment are actually minimal. You wouldn't need a 100kw battery bank to go "off-grid" with a few outlets. You wouldn't have power fluctuations from when the A/C or pool pump starts or your neighbor decides to do some welding.
I suppose the cost considerations and even space considerations make it a difficult choice. But the other choices seem fairly complicated and expensive too.