The Mansfield area is wonderful for off-grid living, but it presents challenges in maintaining a solar power supply for your off-grid house during the winter. This part of Victoria poses some challenges for the functioning of off-grid solar systems in the colder months.

For this area, we recommend designing an off-grid system with a heavily oversized solar panel array. If we install a system with a 10 kW inverter, then the solar panel array should be up to 20 kW. The most suitable system for building an off-grid solar system in Mansfield would be Sigenergy, as this system allows for a large solar array double the size of the inverter. Additionally, the battery bank should be sized for around 24 hours or larger to get through the winter’s dark days.