Larry Hamm,
I find it amusing you cannot accept my appraisal--based
on six months of daily use--of my own solar system!
I don't expect the needs & habits of other's to match my own,
but offer my own solar experience merely as a point of reference.
Solar systems need not be complicated or expensive!

As to your reference to "wasted energy" powering a coffee
grinder thru an inverter vs 12 volt---Bah!  What nit picking!
The three seconds it takes ginding a morning's worth of beans
is hardly a "drain" on my system, "inefficient" or not.
I already own a perfectly good coffee grinder which, BTW, is not
recycled as "plastic."

Too, I already own a Canon digican, it's proprietary battery
charger & three spare batteries--so why suggest I go looking
for a possible "after market" charger?
Why, in fact, suggest anything at all?
I am fully operational & content with my system.
Perhaps I do not have the "perfect" solar set up, but it works for me.
Perfectly.

Phaedra