Anyone who has lived off the grid understands that an inverter is the least efficient solution to the problem of running consumer devices from a DC source. We laugh at the newbies running an inverter to supply a laptop PS that takes AC right back to DC. Hopelessly inefficient.
DC-DC is the way to go, or else if you need higher voltage, take an auxiliary feed from the charge controller, since most solar puts out 21-25VDC anyway. For more efficient and powerful motors, use series battery banks. Duh.
This is just another way of pandering to the people who do not understand efficiency and who are locked into the idea of "house current", in other words, dinosaurs.
Our industrialized world is so inefficient that we throw away about 80% of generated power. What a holocaust for the natural environment! When you go off-grid, that just won't fly, because no one wants to upsize their generation capacity five-fold to run some inefficient consumer device, except for the aforementioned newbies who have yet to notice an open artery.
Inverters simply extend the inefficiency of the consumer experience to alternative forms of power generation. The smart solution is not to make the inverter smaller but to lose it entirely.
DC-DC is the way to go, or else if you need higher voltage, take an auxiliary feed from the charge controller, since most solar puts out 21-25VDC anyway. For more efficient and powerful motors, use series battery banks. Duh.
This is just another way of pandering to the people who do not understand efficiency and who are locked into the idea of "house current", in other words, dinosaurs.
Our industrialized world is so inefficient that we throw away about 80% of generated power. What a holocaust for the natural environment! When you go off-grid, that just won't fly, because no one wants to upsize their generation capacity five-fold to run some inefficient consumer device, except for the aforementioned newbies who have yet to notice an open artery.
Inverters simply extend the inefficiency of the consumer experience to alternative forms of power generation. The smart solution is not to make the inverter smaller but to lose it entirely.