We were considering going with a solar hot water system to pair with our wet back BUT they're not cheap and the more I think about it the more I wonder if we should just run it off an electric element. Our previous off grid system was fully charged most of the time by around 10am and most of the extra power generated by the panels was wasted during the day. So wetback in bad weather and solar in good weather?! Is there any way to push all extra energy generated into the hot water cylinder without ever touching our batteries? Is this a common thing to do? Is the quattro the simplest way to go?
We'll be looking at using a 8kw quattro paired with the 450/100 mppt, cerbo and 8kw of panels, 4kw at North facing and 4kW at North West.
Side question - on the unlikely event that we used more than 8kw at once can we programme generator to start automatically to provide us with more power?
Cheers!
