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| Posted: 01:52am 22 Sep 2023 |
Hi Grogster, I go along with those who say forget a clothes dryer.
We live totally off grid, have done now for 40 odd years. Never had a clothes dryer and never needed one.
As others have said just wash on days when the sun is going to be out.
As far as inverters go,
I have three running
A Latronics inverter 2300 watt that runs the house, and two 8010 based inverters that run the shed and a small cabin.
If you are after easy, reasonably cheap and reliable inverters and you have a transformer already ( as you say). Then the aliexpress 8010 based boards are easy fast and have proven very reliable to me.
I have seen quite a few second hand inverters on Gumtree. But if you have the parts then it is still cheaper to make your own.
Having space on a tiny home for enough panels may be an issue, but if you are in a fixed place then a ground mounted rack would be the way to have more panel space.
I have two ground mounts, as my roof is not big enough for more than about 2kw of panels. So the ground mounts have 3kw of panels on them.
I made mine with treated pine posts and 150 x 25 mm treated pine rails to mount the panel racks to. It gets very windy where we are at times so the ground mounts are built very strongly. In a sheltered place you could make lightweight demountable racks.
Good luck
Pete