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The facilities angle is genuinely enviable, @BurnWalker. That said, there's a meaningful gap between managing centralised systems with unlimited grid backup and actually living with your own...

@Louise1984 spot on. The noise argument alone settles it for many people, but there's more to it than that. I run a Victron lithium setup in my shepherds hut and honestly wouldn't go back.

The real issue with induction in a shepherd's hut setup is the instantaneous demand, not just total energy.

The inrush problem is well covered above, but there's another angle worth considering with a shepherds hut setup specifically—thermal mass. Rather than oversizing the inverter (which gets...