Single room in house all off solar?

[russ]

What's causing the high expense? The mini fridge? Light bulbs? I'm Looking for things to cut out. Also I probably will only be in there a few hours a day.

Also what is expensive? For just the room I was budgeting $1,000. This is mainly for "prepping". Just want to be able to use my prep instead of having a few panels and batteries in the garage in case there is an emergency. This way I get some use out of it.

Solar is really dificult to "prep" with. One thing - at storm time there usually isn't much good sun anyway.

For the end of the world - wtshtf type stuff - it doesn't make much difference - a lost cause anyway.

[inetdog]

What's causing the high expense? The mini fridge? Light bulbs? I'm Looking for things to cut out. Also I probably will only be in there a few hours a day.

Also what is expensive? For just the room I was budgeting $1,000. This is mainly for "prepping". Just want to be able to use my prep instead of having a few panels and batteries in the garage in case there is an emergency. This way I get some use out of it.

The expense is in replacing the batteries every three to five years if you work them every day to "save" POCO power.
That will be a large part of the initial cost of the system, on a recurring basis.
If you do not actually use the batteries but keep them on float charge waiting for SHTF, you will not have to replace them as often, but you are not getting any "free" power along the way.

[Pogi]

Plausible, sure, but extremely expensive. You could expect the cost of electricity for that room to be at least 5X higher than it would have been if you had stayed grid-tied.

What's causing the high expense? The mini fridge? Light bulbs? I'm Looking for things to cut out. Also I probably will only be in there a few hours a day.

Also what is expensive? For just the room I was budgeting $1,000. This is mainly for "prepping". Just want to be able to use my prep instead of having a few panels and batteries in the garage in case there is an emergency. This way I get some use out of it.

[sensij]

Plausible, sure, but extremely expensive. You could expect the cost of electricity for that room to be at least 5X higher than it would have been if you had stayed grid-tied.

[Pogi]

We're building a new home and I want to make my reloading/"man cave" that's in the basement totally solar. That way if there is ever an outage or sometype of catastrophe we have one room that has total power. I'm also thinking of doing the whole basement solar power. In the reloading room it would be 10ish light bulbs, small mini fridge, tv, computer and need for small electric tools every so often (once or twice a week, drill, router, nothing real bug just hand stuff). If I were to do the whole basement it would be about 20ish lights, items listed in the reloading room, big screen tv, possibly full size fridge, microwave, oven. I'm fairly new to solar and have done some online research but haven't found anyone with my similar idea. I don't care about grid tie in and pumping power back into the grid. I mainly just one one room ( possible whole basement) completely solar all the time. My questions are: can this be a DIY thing? Can I have the deep cycle batteries inside (basement). Is this something that I just wire into the existing breaker box but just have my room (or basement) coming from solar? I probably won't install this right off the bat as the basement won't be finished for a few years so I was thinking of having the builder install a pipe from the attic to the basement so I can run the necessary wires without the headache of going through the walls. Any thought or input is much appreciated. Are my thoughts plausible?