Portable Fridge Freezers.

[geem]

Geem,

Thanks

You do underline one of my beliefs - it does not matter how much solar you can produce but your consumption will grow to slightly exceed production.

Just a variant on Parkinson's Law:

"work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion".

It doesn't quite work like that for us. In sunny days, we can run the watermaker for 20 mins and make circa 70 litres. We can make hot water and do all the cooking. If its not so sunny, we will use the gas cooker to do the cooking. If it's a cloudy wet day, we will use the generator to make water and hot water and even charge the batteries. Once you have lithium, there is so much more flexibility in the way you operate since you don't need to get fully charged. There is no pressure to get batteries to float. Quite the opposite. You don't need to do that as the solar would stop producing so we use the power they produce rather than fully charging the lithium.