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Yes. As someone else noted, there's an excellent community on reddit for /r/SolarDIY with a lot of people who do this. The standard setup is to buy an offgrid inverter that will take shore power. Size your unit to handle your entire house. Throw it _behind_ your electrical panel so that it feeds all of your house. You're basically building a DIY whole-house battery backup + solar.

The EG4 gear is really popular for this. Don't go quite as cheap on the inverter or batteries as the OP did - you want something reliable, and for doing whole-house you want rackable batteries that you can easily parallelize and that have controllers you can talk to.



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