[raylit20]

The 200 watt heater is being swapped out in favor of a 500w hot pad heater. I also have the parts here now to build my grid charger. My only problem is finding enough time to get all this work done.

I ran into a problem - The wiring in my house is mostly pre-WWII knob and tube; This means It's not going to work for me to safely pull as much power as I need from the existing wiring.

So now I have a single 100 watt monocrystalline solar panel and a charge controller on order for my project. I already have an inverter and two 12V batteries ready for my small system.

The plan now is to pre-warm my car automatically with timers every day (With no change to the power bill!). And when I move, the setup is compact enough to come along with me. With additional panels and batteries I could charge the car off-grid as well.