I would like to have more power available to run stuff like hot water, air conditioning, water maker, comfort heat etc. But it seems to me that smaller diesel generators are just ridiculously high priced, yet today I started wondering if I'm not looking at it correctly. If I had an installed diesel generator there are some savings in total costs to consider. Things like:
- I probably wouldn't need to increase my current solar capacity
- a lower cost AC water maker could be used instead of a DC
- electric heat could be used instead of a diesel heater
- others will probably occur to me in time (like less need to go to a slip just for the power)
I think I'll start a spreadsheet to see how the options for/against a genset works out really price wise as maybe the cost of the genset isn't as much as it.
Anyone want to express how they think it is going to come out?
- I probably wouldn't need to increase my current solar capacity
- a lower cost AC water maker could be used instead of a DC
- electric heat could be used instead of a diesel heater
- others will probably occur to me in time (like less need to go to a slip just for the power)
I think I'll start a spreadsheet to see how the options for/against a genset works out really price wise as maybe the cost of the genset isn't as much as it.
Anyone want to express how they think it is going to come out?
