Sometimes small systems are plenty

Almot, I occasionally run through the exercise of running from just solar and batteries (from a full timers POV) with a mostly electric or all-electric rig. Can be done but not "practical" with FLA batteries (FLA's require occasional equalizations which requires duplicate banks) and not on the cheap either and not with limited space. If you ignore A/C usage it's easy. MUCH harder with A/C usage. Problem is not storage, it's charging. You need two massive banks, 1500Ah each plus another 200Ah for everything else per day!!! If you could get 4 235W panels on the roof you could replenish 300Ah per day but that won't make up for the A/C. Might as well just skip solar and invest in some big chargers since you'll have to do that once a day anyways. I agree with you that A/C usage is best left to the generator but everything else can be run from batteries and solar given a big enough budget and roof space.