The USA death rate increased from 2.85 in 2019 pre-covid to 3.04 in 2020 the first year of covid pre vaccine. In 2021-2022, the death rate continued to climb to 3.44 (high vaccine use years), and in 2023 declined to 3.15 (people no longer getting the vaccine).
While covid itself has an affect...
During normal usage, an off-grid system frequently reaches "full" so that it has capacity to "coast" through extended number of rainy days.
If I had an off-grid system, I would want enough solar to recharge in one day enough batteries for 3 days of usage.
I visited Greece, and every building had solar water heaters. They have been doing it for years, so the technology is mature and affordable. Solar electricity has become affordable only in the past few years.
If it doesn't freeze, what added risk is there?
Telegraph system is orders of magnitude simpler than an electric grid. At a minimum, you can expect surges to knock out transmission lines. Hopefully that doesn't burn out wires or toast transformers. That would cause a cascading islanding of generators as they become overloaded or underloaded...
What's the greater threat:
1) China looking at the data from your Sol-Ark
2) NSA hacking your BMS and using all the wires in your house to communicate with aliens in orbit.
Check for a short somewhere. If he had to stop because the resistor got hot, then it obviously wasn't done charging... Assuming it was charging. 5-8 seconds would seem like long enough.
Poor people subsidizing through higher rates, rich people who can afford, and take advantage of tax credits, to install solar.
Poor people having energy insecurity because of increasingly unreliable electric grids, whereas wealthy people can install batteries.
I can use a cheap $400 generator to recharge the battery. The CV cleans up the power from the cheap dirty generator. Sol-ark is good if you have a good stand-by auto start generator. If you are going cheap with Plan C, CV is the way to go.
Regarding "Income Based Rates":
The Government cannot compel you to give income information to a private entity (utility). So the only way it will work is: You pay the highest monthly rate unless you want to prove a lower income to the utility. I wonder what that will cost the utility to review...
Connect each battery separately to the busbar. I have 3 sets of batteries and 2 connections to the inverter (SA 15k). It is connected to the busbar: b-i-b-i-b
For you, i1-b-i2-b-i3-b-i1-b-i2-b-i3
You have to fuse each wire appropriately.
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That would be an interesting option. For new users, if anyone submits a "report", they become "ignore" for everyone until a moderator can review.
You don't need an attack. Covid showed us that. If covid was more deadly, then society collapse would have been a possibility, and grid fails for lack of operators, maintenance, and fuel deliveries.