Our homestead encompasses much more than our house. Here’s a list of electric loads that we currently have:
- Four-burner cooktop
- Wall oven
- Refrigerators (2), plus small refrigerator in travel trailer
- Chest freezer
- Dishwasher
- Electric range
- Point-of-use 5-gallon water heater
- 50-gallon water heaters (2; one is lightly used for backup clothes washing); 30-gallon water heater (cabin)
- 40-gallon water heater (for hydronic heating)
- Space heaters (used occasionally for zone heating)
- Vertical-axis washing machine
- Horizontal-axis washing machine
- Electric clothes dryer
- Lighting
- Well pump
- Three computers, two printers (one inkjet; one laser), two LCD monitors
- Ceiling fans
- Ventilation fans
- Aboveground pool pump & salt-water ionizer (seasonal)
