A question for people who have emergency back-up solar generators:

How did you calculate what size to get?

This is far outside my experience, I'm keen to learn from people who know their (solar) onions.

*As ever, I'm only looking for A) answers to what I asked, B) from the people I specified. Whatabboutery and second-guessing are not helpful or welcome. Thank you for your reading comprehension. xo

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@ShaulaEvans like all good answers, it depends. Partly on what you mean by solar generator. Mostly on what you consider critical. If you're in a place that gets significant sun, that probably means refrigeration and air conditioning which are unfortunately not ideal loads for a solar inverter due to the reactance of inductive loads. 10-12kw is enough for a normal sized home to run everything as if nothing has changed. Battery size is much more so based on your actual usage, number of solar panel
@ShaulaEvans and battery charge rate limits. If you're looking for something portable, it can be more challenging to size without knowing more about the use case. I use a 5kw tri-fuel inverter generator running on natural gas for my backup to PV+batteries