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RE: Off-Grid: Complete Solar Power System Flow
Currently I draw water from my cistern - down the hill to the cabin - with a 300 foot gravity powered siphon - it has stayed primed with a dpigot at the bottom of the hose for 3 weeks now lol :) We'll use a small pump when we build the main house. No current plans to put in a well, but our neighbors went down about 150 feet. Back when I was considering a well, I read that often the will driller will set people up with a pump that is much more powerful than really needed and to request or purchase a smaller power pump for offgrid. The air compressor and the hot tub pulled over 2000 watts - did not crush the inverter, but really drained the batteries. I disconnected the hot tub jets and heater :)
You sound like a hardcore off-grid guy. I could never talk my family into that.
I was always up for it, my wife had been on a few homesteader message boards for a little while and was having thoughts about it, and my 9 year old son enjoys the outdoors and all the extra time with retired mum and dad - and he still has his tablets and internet for down time (what most people would probably miss these days :) Extra work for me - keeping all the utilities available off-grid - which gets easier as more structure is built - but other than that we dont feel isolated or missing much from on-grid life. We just do things a little different now - a nice slower pace :)