u/BusyBanana4205

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

(And bring proxy chat from redsec to battlefield).

I have a spare chimney that sits behind drywall, and the cement at the top of the chimney has chipped a bit and is need of repair, and has been dormant way longer than I’ve owned this house (8 years).

Everything I do to my house is to create cost saving systems to live minimally in the future. Basically, my philosophy on my retirement is to both save for retirement and mitigate the cost to live month to month by investing now.

I have a steep roof, and even if I repair, clean, and re-line the chimney (or whatever else is needed), a chimney sweep will always be baked into the cost of ownership.

But, if I close off a window, turning it into a fire safe wall, essentially, I could run pipe, of which I could service myself indefinitely.

I live in northern PA so heat is necessary. I’ve already moved to a minisplit for heat and am scaling up a solar system, but a wood stove would be an amazing attribute to work in tandem with my eventually solar powered minisplit as supplemental heat (as it takes a lot of energy from the sun to heat).

Am I being dumb and overly-idealistic? Lol

(I still intend to repair the chimney eventually. I just am questioning if I want to run a wood stove off it, essentially)

I’m considering the blueitt apex 300 (maybe B300k as well) with the solarX 4K.

I don’t want to utilize my roof but build off the ground and I’d like to familiarize myself with solar before investing even more money on a full grid tied system with all the permits pulled and such.

My plan is to essentially dabble with the apex and get familiar with the process, and going with the solarX 4K I’m able to utilize a better variety of panels. Then, expand off the existing panels and pay a licensed electrician to connect it to the grid and install a transfer switch. Then I’d refocus the blueitt as a battery back up, upscale it, and connect it to the grid from the transfer switch and sub panel.

Is that a very long winded and unnecessary means of creating a grid tied system with a battery back up?

I’m looking at the anker solix c2000, charging it with 2 400w panels *not* permanently installed.

I don’t feel as if in my neck of the woods in northern PA, using it would be of much issue as long as it’s not a permanent structure. However, the portable power station has the ability to utilize both solar and the grid to charge the battery. Would using that feature be problematic as far as code? Charging my car’s battery using my grid electric wouldn’t need a permit and inspection, but would a anker solix need a permit to use both solar and the grid to charge it?