Portable Solar Generator kit

@ CryBaby,

Hey now! You aren't looking for another cheque are you??? I will give up the visa # when there is something worth buying! 😉

LOL!

But I've signed up with Spark, a small co-op based retailer. I do not get $0.08/kWhr for export, I get just over $0.15/ kWhr which they bill to the power pool and resell it to my neighbors.

 

Ok, if you have found a company paying you 7 cents more than what the going rate that it is sold for, good for you, no one was going to be paying me more than it could be sold for, when I looked at it, and if you can keep getting that for whatever time frame is needed to recover your costs, good.( I will look at that micro connect policy when I get a chance, it must be newer?)
You can deduct that as a business expense, even better for you.
you can afford 3 strings of batteries at what must be 2000 amphrs a string thats great, for you.

For the rest of us that dont have money falling out of our pockets when we pull out our keys( I am not saying or mean unearned)
we have to figure things out with a sharper pencil.
I imagine your circulating pumps just for your boiler would consume as much power in a day, or nearly so that I can run my house on. (maybey 1/3 hp pumps 12 hr run time(guessing) = 3kwhrs
I propose that you are far less secure energy wise, in fact greatly dependant on it, needing much larger amounts than someone who has addressed the demand side first. your batteries have a finite life span, more problematic, more interconnects on 32 batteries, more watering, more checking SG, more weight to handle. with your higher needs likely a higher voltage system, way more expensive inverter, likely with in built charge controler, maybe auto generator start capabilities, lots more bells and far from field repairable when it fails, it will fail.
your options are greatly limited do to your high demand when it goes sideways. A smaller system, lower voltage, field repairable, and durable, while still meeting all needs is well within the reach of many but not if they dont manage the demand. Your system works for you, mine for me,but we are orders of magnitude apart on costs but still achieve the same results.(though I dont make money on surplus production)

I imagine your circulating pumps just for your boiler would consume as much power in a day, or nearly so that I can run my house on. (maybey 1/3 hp pumps 12 hr run time(guessing) = 3kwhrs

Running 1 1/2" pex with 1/25hp pumps is nothing. All my 12 pumps are running in the low setting.

Only the main circulatory pump runs full time... on a short open loop. The other pumps only kick on when there is demand.

Peanuts.

Grundfos pumps are top notch in efficiency.

Agreed, grundfos pumps are good 1/25 hp is nothing by itself and pushing it through 1 1/2 pex is easy, but not nothing x 12 thats = 745/25= 29.8 watts each x12=358 watts now you say low speed but what is that in watts? plus your main pump which again you dont give the wattage or hp of that runs continuious am I wrong to guess a 1/4 horse? and why do you make me guess, spit it out damn it, So 745/4=186 watts 186+358= 544 watts
with it running full out= 3/4 hp so I stand by my estimate of 1/3 hp total(considering some of your pumps at a low seting and low duty cycle=248 watts ( all roughly calculated) to move the volume of water needed to heat your 7000 sqft home and shop. Thats not peanuts.

Agreed, grundfos pumps are good 1/25 hp is nothing by itself and pushing it through 1 1/2 pex is easy, but not nothing x 12 thats = 745/25= 29.8 watts each x12=358 watts now you say low speed but what is that in watts? plus your main pump which again you dont give the wattage or hp of that runs continuious am I wrong to guess a 1/4 horse? and why do you make me guess, spit it out damn it, So 745/4=186 watts 186+358= 544 watts
with it running full out= 3/4 hp so I stand by my estimate of 1/3 hp total(considering some of your pumps at a low seting and low duty cycle=248 watts ( all roughly calculated) to move the volume of water needed to heat your 7000 sqft home and shop. Thats not peanuts.

It is peanuts. The picture is of the main circ pump. It was designed for a hydronic solar system.

The fact for me is, I have no heating bill, and little to no power bill (if I want.)

How much did all this cost you ask?

Approximately 50k for a 150k+ system because I did the work and enjoyed every minute of it.

Do I have maintenance and inevitable failures? Absolutely as with everything in life.

So what is all this worth to me?

Invaluable...... and I don't really care what the cost.