<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>There are also gas heated solar-assisted tanks that would be a good fit for off-grid applications. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Apr 24, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Jake jakaitis <<a href="mailto:futureship0000@hotmail.com">futureship0000@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><p dir="ltr">Thank you gentlemen for your thoughts. My understanding from this<br>
Thread is to provide solar thermal panels as the primary heating source for the hot water storage tank. PV panels are added to supplement the solar thermal when needed. My conclusion is that
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For ideal off grid energy efficiency is that hot water usage should be timed for optimal (least energy demand).
</p><p dir="ltr">My work with energy efficient upgrades found that homeowner habits <br>
Must be managed to obtain the benefits of any work we do. Long hot showers need to be managed too ... Admittedly this is my personal habit that I am working on to make more efficient.
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<div class="quote">On Apr 24, 2016 12:48 PM, Antonioli Dan <<a href="mailto:solardan26@gmail.com">solardan26@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div class="PlainText">If you’re off-grid I agree that an electric hot water heater is not the way to go unless you want to invest a whole lot of money in a large pv array.
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On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Nick Pyner <<a href="mailto:npyner@ihug.com.au">npyner@ihug.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> As I have said, I think this is a bad idea. If you must go this route you need to research where you stand with the inverter.. You could find yourself having to replace it with a bigger one when you add panels.<br>
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>> . My idea is to focus on getting<br>
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>> My hot water energy to net zero first. I will add panels and other<br>
>> Modifications until I do get it right. I follow the "divide and conquer" testing rule.<br>
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