I'm planning to cut my grid connection and go full off-grid. Which raises the question of how much capacity I really need. And what you see here is me trying to answer that question based on ~51,000 5-minute data points of usage data my power company provided to me, complete with custom-made python script to parse all that data and pretty charts! (Yes, I have 6 monitors. And this kind of shows why.)
And what I'm really torn about now is how much battery capacity I need. Should I get enough to cover the absolute worst case scenario (~66kwh) or is something closer to my average overnight usage (~20kwh) acceptable?
Not the absolute end of the world if the batteries run dry and I need to temporarily supplement with generator backup, I suppose. Nobody is life-or-death depending on any electrical appliances here, and even on the coldest days, waiting a few minutes to go start a generator isn't a huge deal.
But definitely would like a word from the wise about how much battery capacity I really need. And also how much solar panel wattage I need, I suppose.
@OwOarchist Ok, wasn't expecting it would be challenge (journey) for you to make 6 monitors work seamlessly.
About 1070 and 3090, are you on 580 and below series of drivers? Open kernel drivers for Nvidia dropped 10XX series of GPUs entirely, this is one of obstacles for cards to be usable.
KDE Plasma 6.8 (not released yet) drops new DMABUF v6 thing, I don't know if it would help for you, try out later on.
535, actually ... lol.
Yeah, I haven't updated it in a long time. (I had a separate issue where every video driver update would leave my PC unbootable, so I just used
sudo apt hold *nvidia*to stop that from happening.) And at this point, I'm not looking to change anything as long as it's still working. Not until I do that 4-screen upgrade, anyway.