That said, the last time I checked, propane and wood pellets cost half that of
electricity for heating. And natural gas was half that again. So natural gas
vs electric heat pump for heating would probably be the same energy cost.
From: Chuck McCown via AF
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 8:40 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Cc: ch...@go-mtc.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Major off topic. Off grid home
3.41 BTU per watt for resistive heating. Heat pump gives you way more heat per
watt. That is why most of the electric cars have gone to heat pumps for the
heater. The heat pump Tesla will run the heater for 36 hours and still leave
you with enough battery to get home in many cases.
Chuck McCown
McCown Technology Corporation
8401 N Commerce Dr
Lake Point, Utah 84074
801-250-9503
435-830-4306 cell
www.mccowntech.com
www.microtrench-blades.com
www.terabitnetworks.com
From: Robert
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 7:11 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Major off topic. Off grid home
The $800 mini-splits I am looking at put out about 6K BTU's of heat on 400
Watts. The home depot $300 heaters put out 5K BTU's but require 1500 watts..
Not going to do well in the winter overnight off grid... And no a/c in the
summer...
On 1/20/22 5:53 AM, Jan-GAMs wrote:
$1895? For a one room ac/heater? Home Depot has something similar for $300.
Is it the decal? Hood ornament?
On 1/19/22 05:13, Zach Underwood wrote:
If you have not already gotten the mini splits take a look at
https://www.hotspotenergy.com/solar-air-conditioner/
It has direct PV inputs when sunny it would put no load on your inverter
IT can be put in solar only mode where it will scale the cool/heat output
to match the power it is getting PV
It can run overnight if you wish by giving in 240volt AC connection.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 7:08 PM Robert <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote:
I am working on my first off grid home, and hope to do another in the
future somewhere more northerly.. This one is in the sunbelt of N.
Nevada and currently I have 4K of solar feeding a 30KW LFP battery bank
through currently a Victron charge controller and a couple midnight
solar inverters to generate a flawed 220 as well as two sides of 110. (
the 220 will not run the well controller even though supposedly
configured for such. ) I am upgrading the inverters and controller to
a
https://www.signaturesolar.com/products/8kw-48v-240vac-split-phase-120a-250vdc-off-grid-inverter-by-growatt
planning on doing a couple 9K mini-splits for heating/cooling.
I wonder if this group has some gotchas that I might learn from in
advance before I buy myself into a corner... I'm all ears..
thanks!!
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