Same. I’m working on electrifying everything. I have geothermal HVAC, a heat pump water heater, and an EV running off the solar panels. Only the gas stove remains.
Gas stove was one of my first - when it’s time, definitely consider induction. My pots and pans really do heat up faster than gas! (And way faster than electric resistive).
It’s a good kind of strange that my stovetop itself never heats up.
As soon as I bought my house I installed maximum solar panels and battery on it. Through all of summer I kept both my air conditioners on day and night at 23 degrees and never once imported from the grid, only used solar and battery power.
The credits I get from the power company for my excess exported power is pretty paltry, so I do what I can to use up my own solar. I bought a large food dehydrator and have started dehydrating my own hiking foods like soup, protein bars, biltong, ect and making little MRE-style hiking food packs. I have a spidergro grow light which I might use to set up a little greenhouse and grow some more delicate culinary plants some time soon too. Plus I can run a big stack of home lab servers and stuff at home without needing to consider the power cost. It’s pretty great.
First off, are you South African? It’s not very humid where I live, and unless you’re living with bad humidity, I’ve discovered that peak biltong making equipment is a string and some meat hooks.
Second, etc. is short for et cetera - ECT is electroconvulsive therapy ;-)
Hey if I wanna use my solar power to run my homemade ECT machine, that’s between me and my patients!
And yeah it’s fairly humid and there are a lot of bugs and flies, so in the dehydrator at a sweaty 35 degrees is the way to go. Not Sth african though.
Yeah same. 400W on the greenhouse. Pretty sick backup power. Would probably run the freezer with the batteries I have, as it is just runs fans, stereo, irrigation, chicken heater and water barrel heaters in the winter. But would be good enough for charging and a few other things on a pinch. Tempted to DIY for the house cause this system was so easy. Need to get an electric car to use for battery storage first though. Thinking of getting an old Nissan leaf to make into an off-road/hunting toy.
I got mine turned on October 13th, obviously not the best time for solar in the northeastern US, but for 2026 I’m 104kwh ahead, and produced nearly a megawatt in March, so I’m pretty excited to see how it goes for the summer.
I’m doing my part! I have a small set on my house and it pays for almost my entire bill in the summer.
Same. I’m working on electrifying everything. I have geothermal HVAC, a heat pump water heater, and an EV running off the solar panels. Only the gas stove remains.
Gas stove was one of my first - when it’s time, definitely consider induction. My pots and pans really do heat up faster than gas! (And way faster than electric resistive).
It’s a good kind of strange that my stovetop itself never heats up.
As soon as I bought my house I installed maximum solar panels and battery on it. Through all of summer I kept both my air conditioners on day and night at 23 degrees and never once imported from the grid, only used solar and battery power.
The credits I get from the power company for my excess exported power is pretty paltry, so I do what I can to use up my own solar. I bought a large food dehydrator and have started dehydrating my own hiking foods like soup, protein bars, biltong, ect and making little MRE-style hiking food packs. I have a spidergro grow light which I might use to set up a little greenhouse and grow some more delicate culinary plants some time soon too. Plus I can run a big stack of home lab servers and stuff at home without needing to consider the power cost. It’s pretty great.
First off, are you South African? It’s not very humid where I live, and unless you’re living with bad humidity, I’ve discovered that peak biltong making equipment is a string and some meat hooks.
Second, etc. is short for et cetera - ECT is electroconvulsive therapy ;-)
Hey if I wanna use my solar power to run my homemade ECT machine, that’s between me and my patients!
And yeah it’s fairly humid and there are a lot of bugs and flies, so in the dehydrator at a sweaty 35 degrees is the way to go. Not Sth african though.
Fair enough, it’s your sun, so you can do what you want with it! 🌞
Yeah same. 400W on the greenhouse. Pretty sick backup power. Would probably run the freezer with the batteries I have, as it is just runs fans, stereo, irrigation, chicken heater and water barrel heaters in the winter. But would be good enough for charging and a few other things on a pinch. Tempted to DIY for the house cause this system was so easy. Need to get an electric car to use for battery storage first though. Thinking of getting an old Nissan leaf to make into an off-road/hunting toy.
I got mine turned on October 13th, obviously not the best time for solar in the northeastern US, but for 2026 I’m 104kwh ahead, and produced nearly a megawatt in March, so I’m pretty excited to see how it goes for the summer.