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Rule of Acquisition #91: Your boss is only worth what he pays you
You MUST have a battery for your solar panels to be of any use during a grid outage. When I got panels installed in 2020, I paid $24,500. A whole-house battery would have been almost as much again. I skipped the battery because, at the time, I was not particularly concerned about grid reliability.
I have a power bank and foldable solar panels. That provided enough power to keep my refrigerator running.
I also have an EcoFlow Wave2 portable air conditioner that I was able to partially charge with solar. The AC function uses too much energy, but it can also operate as just a fan, in which mode the battery will last for days and days. Having the fan on me helped a lot.
I only got power back yesterday evening.
Watch as the Texas Supreme Court reverses this and gives Paxton whatever he wants. They don’t even pretend to be unbiased.
Try systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse