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Rural/Farm Life

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Dover

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Tue Dec 20, 2011, 10:23 PM Dec 2011

Does anyone have a tool room/workshop that runs entirely on solar? [View all]

I may be wrong, but my assumption has been that power to run all those tools creates too much of a load to make solar plausible and an affordable solution. Maybe the main residence/house actually draws more. Just don't know, and will have to ask a solar installer.
I just thought that if anyone has done a solar workshop they might be able to share some first hand experience.

Right now we're still connected to the grid but want to eventually get off it entirely. Of course it would be much less expensive to
just hook the workshop up to the grid, but we're trying to determine if it makes sense to
install solar in the workshop now (if solar would even power it) instead of attach it to the grid initially and then switch.



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