Member CherithCreek
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Related; a few years back, my wife and I were visiting Israel, and it was interesting to see entire orchards covered with shade nets, a very strange sight, but they have learned to produce things like bananas on a large scale, in the desert. The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. Isaish 35:1.
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Advice from an industrial automation engineer; I am still working full time, and in my spare time do a lot of engineering research for off-grid living in retirement. The most common mistake I see in the want-to-be off grid community, I fit this description, is people trying to jerry -rig on grid homes/systems/lifestyles to run off a solar array. Unless you have an endless supply of money it can’t be done. It is my opinion, you must change your way of thinking, homes/systems/lifestyles must be designed for off-grid not the other way around. Sojourner is on the right path pump water while the sun is shining. A small submersible 24vdc pump can lift water over 200ft at 1gpm directly from solar panels, so even if you only had 1 hour of sunlight a day you would have 60 gal of water, that’s a huge amount of daily water for an off-grid home; if it runs all day you can store huge amounts of water. There are endless ways of using on demand dc pumps to provide water pressure from a holding tank, like in an RV and they are already designed. You got a THINK off-grid.
If you do end up needing 240VAC, check out Victron equipment split phase installations.