Gonna get 'lectrified

I happen to live off the grid. I don't mean this in a tinfoil-hat, leave-no-data-trail, They-are-going-to-get-me kind of way. I mean it in a "the-electrical-grid-owned-by-PG&E-ends-two-miles-away-from-my-house" kind of way. This means that I've had to learn a lot about electricity, and energy conservation, and renewable energy, and balance of system, and much more since I moved here five years ago.

I've been meaning to document the system that I inherited and how it's evolved over the years. I'll use this article as a table of contents from which to point at the updates as they come in. Here's what I plan on documenting:

1. What I inherited
   • Batteries
   • Inverter
   • Charger
   • Solar array
   • Generator
   • Energy consumption
2. Incremental upgrades
   • Infrastructure
   • Well pump
   • Charger
   • Inverter
   • Solar array
   • Generator
   • Energy Consumption
3. The system today
   • Monitoring and data tracking
     • Actual graphs
   • Solar array
   • "Electric Shed"
   • Infrastructure
4. Changes yet to be realized
   • "Tower of Power"
     • Solar array
     • Windmill
   • Batteries