Who’s behind this
Self-taught, hurricane-tested, still learning
I’m Richard. No engineering degree, no solar certification — just an IT background and a habit of taking things apart until I understand them. Everything on this site started because I wanted power that didn’t depend on the grid staying up.
“The grid didn’t fail at the pole. It failed right at our connection — right when we needed the water pump most during a brush fire. That changed everything for me.”
A hurricane took out power to the house for days not long after. Between that and the fire, I stopped treating backup power as optional. The main house now runs hybrid off-grid — EG4 inverters with utility as backup — and the shed conversion runs 100% off-grid on its own bank. Every review on this site is gear I bought, installed, and lived with.
Porter, Texas. No sponsor copy, no purity test — just what actually worked and what I’d do differently.
