Joe,
Do you have a close idea to how long the batteries would last if you had a long period of cloudy weather where the panels couldn't charge them? My neighbor had a huge solar array put on the end of his garage to run his house and he had a convertor put in with no batteries and now I think he is kind of wishing he had put some batteries in as a back up. But for all the money he spent on that setup I would have bought a place in another state.
Fred, how about some pictures of your place?
Ron
