Solar system for incinerating toilet

Hello everyone,

I am a complete newb when it comes to solar / batteries. I know some basic concepts but don’t know what is marketing vs actual when doing my research. I am looking for some advice on what I should be looking to get for a solar system including panels, batteries, inverters, etc.

I recently bought recreation property in Eastern Washington near Carlton/Twisp. I want to put an off-grid toilet system on the property and my wife is fairly adamant that she doesn’t want to deal with the waste. Due to the property being on a creek so no septic type systems that leaves an incinerator toilet. The only problem is most incinerator toilets take a lot of power which is why I am researching solar.

Toilet:
The toilet I am looking at is the Incinolet Model CF. From their website it shows the following: “Model CF, for home or cabin, workshop, barn or basement, will serve the needs of 4 people, full time. 120 volts, 2000 watts, 2 year warranty. (Must be installed on a 20 amp dedicated circuit)”. They also say that each burn cycle takes 1.5 to 2kwh to run. I may be wrong but I believe that means that for solar to work I would need to have a battery system that can output continuous 2kwh per each cycle and the panels would need to be able to replenish that power in between each burn cycle.

Batteries and Panels:
Here is the part where I am fairly lost. I see multiple batteries on Amazon and other places that are deep cycle and show they work with solar systems including some that are part of kits. However it is fairly hard for me to determine if they would work with the toilet. Same with the panels. If I grabbed two Renogy 200Ah/2000A Max discharge rate batteries (picked from Amazon list of solar storage batteries based on price) would that be enough to power 1 full cycle of the toilet? If I did get those batteries how many 100w or 200w solar panels would I need to recharge in a decent amount of time?

Inverter:
I believe I would need to have an inverter to convert the DC power of the batteries to the AC 120v power for the toilet. It would also need to have the 20amp circuit required. Anything I am missing here? I know you also lose some energy for the conversion.

Propane:
There is another incinerator toilet that uses propane but it is over $2000 difference in price and isn’t on the list of incinerator toilets that are registered with the state. I figured with the $2000 difference I might be able to pay for some or most of the solar system and not have to keep getting propane tanked in.

Lastly there are other things that we would potentially use the solar system for such as a camp refrigerator, small led light strings, charging phones/iphones, ETC but the toilet would be the main usage.

Thanks

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