Thanks for your thoughts on this. Especially the guy who has been living off solar for 20 years! Good insights there.

What I am planning is to basically divide the power via use of inverters for the 3 different buildings. So the house would get 3k of the 5300 watts the barn/shop 1k and the greenhouse 1300k. Everything would go to battery banks on 24v as that seems to be the best price point for charge controllers for the batts.

According to the charts, we're between 4.5 and 5.5 Kwh, so I think the size of the panels will be good enough for most of our needs.

We do have a 4000watt generator for when we have to really use the shop with saws and other power tools. I imagine we may need to use that once in awhile if we hit a lengthy overcast spell. Everything is already wired for AC so I don't care to try to wire things for DC.

I'm having trouble finding a model that fits my idea of splitting everything. Is it a good idea to use the inverters basically as those switches?