Post #3467823
2026-06-29 07:06 UTC
@solar_chase@mastodon.green Here in South Africa, panels are relatively cheap, and we get really good sun, but the bottleneck are batteries and inverters.
We only have 6kW inverter and a 4.8kWh battery, which is nowhere near enough to run aircon. So while many middle-class homes here have solar, we still need to be quite selective about what we choose to run off the inverter vs what still goes directly off the grid.
Do most people with solar where you're from run their entire house off solar, or is it a similar situation there, where people have to be conscious about the size of their inverter?
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@solar_chase@mastodon.green 2026-06-29 07:14
@GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa my aircon typically uses about 2kW. Obviously it's quite a small unit, but's in the stairwell so it does cool the whole 4-bedroom house. Sounds like you might just need to talk to an electrician...? Inverters are not that expensive.