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Hi Glen. looks like you've got a well-balanced system.
My flirtation with a wind turbine may all end in tears! I accept this. Particularly since the unit I bought is only quite small- 400 watts with a swpt area of only about 1.5 square meters. But I'm in a rural location with good SE and S winds a lot of the time and an average wind speed of between 5 and 6 mps. So I ought to get some charging benefit from it. And with a couple of solar panels to augment it, and long intervals between actual power usage, I ought to be able to keep 300 AH of batteries fully charged most of the time.
This could be a fine example of "famous last words " but I'm hoping there is a balance in there somewhere.
I have an extra couple of smaller solar panels and a 30A charge controller so I can always throw those into the equation and add a second charging source for the batteries, increasing the solar input to about 300 watts.
I'm more concerned about the inverter. I see a 5000 watt pure sine wave will run to about 3 grand. That is probably 10 times more than the power I would expect my obs to consume in a year - making it a dubious investment.
I think I'll start small and see if I can set up just one of my scopes to run off-grid and use that as a tester for a larger system. I hope my 500 watt psw inverter will be uo to that sort of load. We'll soon see.
Peter
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