I have at least one or more duplicates for every piece I own that is not repairable …as when going offshore in boats one should look around and decide what can fail and totally shut you down…what can you rig to get home ? , and what can you NOT rig…? Who is there to help…? How far away is help …? What is your skill level with the gear…? The list goes on…Then I walk to the storage room, pull out a spare, and install it.
At least that is the plan.
I will admit I bought a 'spare' inverter, but once I had it sitting in the storage room, yeah, I installed it, put this to work.
Other than the inverter, I have lots of spare parts.
I do have an entire 24v portable system and a smaller super portable 12v system as well as my main 48v main system. I have some options if the SHTF.
Yes I bought a spare multi and mounted it. I don’t use it but it’s ready to go in about 20 min…..got 2 SCC spares sitting ready t9 be wired up and a ton of different spare parts fuses ,breakers , wire and tools ..in a component system only a few things can go out that can’t be gotten around with a few parts…
YES, admittedly, if a bolt of lightning take a direct hit …..or a plane crashes on the solar array I’m just screwed… if some one stole all the battery’s that wouldn’t be good…(I intend to thwart their efforts) ) but then that’s where the propane/gas gennys come into play…
But , no matter what you have as spares there is always somthing that can get ya…
sometimes it just ain’t yer day..
J.