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RE: Off-Grid: Berkey Water Filter and a Full 1000 Gallon Cistern of Drinking Water
Very good man, i'm sure you'll be even better off when the solar is put in.
Have you audited your power needs and established how many Watts of panel you need yet? Also which type and size of inverter are you getting?
I have found that the bigger inverters can be counter-productive as they use a lot of electricity themselves.
The water set up looks pretty cool. Pity you cannot 'ditch' that delivery truck. How about processing the rain water too?
Havent done a power audit for the new house yet, but there wont be much more electricity use than in the cabin, but i'll be adding more panels and batteries regardless. Wife is the one to convince about drinking rain water, but i might have her convinced with the Berkey. The cabin roof collects just enough rain water for our cleaning purposes, so i will need the to-be-built house roof and cistern to collect enough rain for drinking water :)