Part of me wants to be like Nelson (Simpson's) and say 'Ha Ha!'

[DinerDave]

GGD wrote:
Is your system designed with battery storage too so that you can be completely off-grid during power outages? If/when I go solar that's a requirement. I'd also like a design with a lot of redundancy, more like two parallel systems so that if a component fails, I only lose half my capacity.

No battery backup yet. On the plus side, we have only had power outages twice since we went live with solar in Aug 2017. First time was 3 hours, and recently, a 20 minute outage.
I should rethink what I want for storage, as back in 2011 we had a 3 day outage from severe micro burst damage. That was in my mind when I asked for an estimate. That said, my first inquiry said we need to make it through the night until the sun comes up. Chances are, that would probably seldom be needed, of course, if power is out, I'm going to shut down all non essential electronics, so maybe that 12 hour(?) backup would only require half the normal energy? Frige, some lights, HVAC, etc. Definitely not washer, dryer, etc. so I should be able to really reduce the size of the first estimate.

Dave