We recently bought a new house, and I want to look at getting a "small" loadshedding setup with the idea of adding onto it at a later stage (batteries and solar panels). To start of the idea is to probably get an inverter between1.5kva and 3kva (pure sinewave), since the idea is to add-on later and I don't want to get to the situation someone explained above, i.e. my inverter doesn't have enough capacity for everything added, probably 2 batteries (either 100/105AH or 150AH) and some solar panels if I can afford it all. There are lots of information, and starting reading up on it I am getting confused, so hopefully someone here can shed some light. 1. Is a 24V inverter better than a 12V inverter? 2. My assumption is that I need a Hybrid inverter to use both power from solar and the grid, is this is the case? If not, what is needed? 3. Anything else I should know, or perhaps a few links to sites I can use to get more information? I will get someone to come and do the installation, etc for me, I just want to know what is happening so that I don't get bullsh**ed into something not needed or not necessarily correct. Plus I would like to do additional add-on's myself in future (if possible).
