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Thanks for the comments. I eventually went with two Ironridge XR 1000 rails mounted to 4" square steel tube welded to the roof support beams. No serious testing so far but the Ironridge Design T…

The system is for a house in Mexico which has grid power for all but a few days per year so grid-tie seems a logical option. Outages tend to occur in the hot summers (hurricane season) when AC and re…

Not much information to make any suggestions. Specific generator, RPM, windspeed range, power output? There are a bunch of links if you search 'custom wind generator blades'. You might also get some …

Back to fridges... boring!! I did the math about 5 years back and came to the conclusion you could buy a decent solar power system with invertor and standard electric refrigerator for about the price…

My goals were similar but with a sailboat. No problem with a refrigerator (details later). An additional challenge for me was the 17 amp draw of a reverse osmosis watermaker that needed to run for a …