Oztules
How things have changed .....
When we bought our offgrid property 8 years ago we were looking at $10 per watt for panels and many thousands for pure sine wave inverters so we were going to use LED lights, gas everything, super efficient appliances, and a lot of diesel. We had a 2400 watt Modified sinewave inverter - failure rate of light bulbs and power supplies for laptops, modems etc was high. The thought of running the electric jug for coffee, and electric HWS was crazy. Still haven't built final house but with panels at less less than 1$ / watt we got the 10kW solar array, new litium batteries, latronic 3kw PSW inverter and a second cheap 3kW HF inverter.
How things have changed - from then to now where I run the electric jug, Air conditioning - thank the gods, electric hot water, pumping water all over the place - all solar. The Generator gets a run maybe a dozen times a year, other than to run a compressor, welder or other serious tool.
Next year - we build and we'll go 48v and with the new 6kva inverter (x 2). We only just realised that with the new inverters that we'll no longer have to turn a genie on just to cut some timber or do some welding or use the grinder.
Absolutely marvelous .....