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Wauw, that's quite a setup. Nevermind the state of things, there is always room for improvements. First is that it works. Your intake of solar is quite low compared to your battery size. Are you also aiming for more solar and bigger inverter then? Otherwise it will take days to fill 18kwh.
I am also aiming for a ton of water to be heated, both firewood and solar but have to rebuild the sauna stove for that. To have both stone and water as thermal storage. The stone I aim to also feed with cold in the summer. But I have to think more on that as condens forming is something risky.
I have other solar arrays besides the fence. Two diagonal arrays and one shed roof (which covers with snow in winter). All together they can currently give 4.5 kW. But this never happens in winter, of course.
If you cool something considerably below room temperature (specifically, the "dew point" at the air moisture level that you have), condensation will happen for sure.
I use my heat pump for cooling in summer. The indoor unit keeps dripping condensation water through a small hose into the big water tank.