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I guess you could also use a small battery to help smooth things out.


I can't imagine a scenario where you've got a large enough solar system that you'd want to be running a dishwasher off it, and you don't already have some battery storage elsewhere in that system.


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However, since my array is currently 4.4kw at 3 in the afternoon, a 2.5kw burst isn't a problem.


The money efficiency isn't great - if you had control of the design of the dishwasher, simply having a hot block of concrete inside that you heated when there was spare energy would work out far cheaper.

Concrete costs far fewer $$$'s than batteries do, per kwh of heat stored, it also doesn't require inverters, balancing or safety systems, ad lasts millions of cycles rather than thousands.


How expensive would it be, transportation included, compared to an insulated water container of comparable heat capacity?


Or maybe store hot water and heat it up at the best time...?


The water is too hot to store safely.

You can still slowly heat it up to 70 or 80°C and just add some extra heat on use, but that will still leave a lot of immediate power to deal with.




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