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Your computer draws 11.5kw?
More 23 has those could only power half of it...
More like charge a ford lighting, that can be 90 kwh in 8 hours if they go at 100%
I'm pretty sure Eco-Worthy panels only go up to 195 Watt per panel, or "200 watt" as they call them. The ones in OP's link are a better quality and more potential wattage per panel.
Now that's impressive! Your mounts look great. I just drilled self tappibg screws to hold 3x 1 meter panels to the 10' wide c channels brackets since they dont quite fit when using z-bracjets.I bought 2 pallets (72 panels) last year for 100 each (shipped) from signature solar, 400 watt/500 watt bifacial and thought that was a great deal, bought 10 more 425 watt ones a few months ago for like 105 each or something. This is a smoking deal, I may grab a pallet of the 395 watt ones.
I finished my diy install last November, 60 panels installed total so far, have 20 more to put up this summer though and a 4th inverter. I built a dedicated "solar shed" for all the equipment. These are some pics of just before it was completed. I currently have 170 KWH of diy lifepo4 batteries as well and passed my inspections on first attempt, I was pretty proud of myself for that one!
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Which hybrid inverters did you use?I bought 2 pallets (72 panels) last year for 100 each (shipped) from signature solar, 400 watt/500 watt bifacial and thought that was a great deal, bought 10 more 425 watt ones a few months ago for like 105 each or something. This is a smoking deal, I may grab a pallet of the 395 watt ones.
I finished my diy install last November, 60 panels installed total so far, have 20 more to put up this summer though and a 4th inverter. I built a dedicated "solar shed" for all the equipment. These are some pics of just before it was completed. I currently have 170 KWH of diy lifepo4 batteries as well and passed my inspections on first attempt, I was pretty proud of myself for that one!
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Those are EG4 6000XP's in parallel (have 4 now). They have 12000XP's out now, if I were buying now I would have bought 2 of the 12000's of course.
Thanks, I like em too, I can adjust the angle on them for different times of the year. I needed stamped plans for the county (to be to code) so I told an engineer what I wanted and how I wanted to build them and he drew up the plans for me.
I don't think my electric company knows how to do that. They just credit mine. Only a couple months out of the year my setup produces more than used.
Too bad my provider nixed that idea. Now I am limited to a set amount I can grid tie, otherwise it has to be offline.
Yep, and it drops every year because as there's more grid scale solar, the solar you sell them is worth less than it was. I've got my eye on batteries, as their price keeps coming down. Better to keep and use all the power, rather than sell it back at a lower rate. Plus with a solar+battery system, you can operate during a grid outage.
I heading that direction myself. Grid tie for the house, sub system for grid outages currently for key things, but am wanting to get to the point of zero grid dependency. Batteries large enough for the grid tie system are pricey. Enphase system, but the subsytem is currently at 11KWh with solar and generator backup.
You can build a rack mount ~16 kwh battery for less than 2k each, the last 2 I had ordered were about 1700 each total shipped (not sure if mr orange fucked this up or not as I bought all my cells/cases prior), look up YIXIANG Diy cases with JK BMS from Alibaba or Gobel Power diy boxes from their website directly and Eve 280-306AH lifepo4 prismatic cells.
Enphase here as well and I'd like to stay in their ecosystem, which does make it more expensive but I like the way it works. Initially I think I'll just look at getting enough battery to get us to the point that we use 100%, or nearly, of the power we generate ourselves. Still need grid power with that as our system isn't big enough to handle it all the time. After that I'd like to expand the system to be able to deal with all our usage, and then expand the batteries and see if we can get near zero grid usage.
I might think about it, I don't know that this is something I wanna DIY. I am really happy with the Enphase "all-in-one" type solution, and I'm tempted to stick with it for the batteries. It does mean more cost for sure, since not only do they charge more than DIY but they put micro-inverters in their batteries since they are an all-AC distribution solution.
Yep, I understand, they are super easy to put together, the diy cases have everything you need but the cells, and they just drop in plus off grid garage yt channel has a ton of videos on these diy batteries and solar in general. I have 6 I built in those cases and 5 more 16 cell 48v packs that I built from brand new car ev batteries (lifepo4), bought a pallet of them for a total of 75 kwh worth, had to break them down, rewire them, bms etc.. work the same as the diy ones though, used all jk bms's in each all parallel together.Enphase here as well and I'd like to stay in their ecosystem, which does make it more expensive but I like the way it works. Initially I think I'll just look at getting enough battery to get us to the point that we use 100%, or nearly, of the power we generate ourselves. Still need grid power with that as our system isn't big enough to handle it all the time. After that I'd like to expand the system to be able to deal with all our usage, and then expand the batteries and see if we can get near zero grid usage.
We'll see, at the moment the central HVAC needs replacement so that's where the money is going.
I might think about it, I don't know that this is something I wanna DIY. I am really happy with the Enphase "all-in-one" type solution, and I'm tempted to stick with it for the batteries. It does mean more cost for sure, since not only do they charge more than DIY but they put micro-inverters in their batteries since they are an all-AC distribution solution.
These what you are referring too?Enphase here as well and I'd like to stay in their ecosystem, which does make it more expensive but I like the way it works. Initially I think I'll just look at getting enough battery to get us to the point that we use 100%, or nearly, of the power we generate ourselves. Still need grid power with that as our system isn't big enough to handle it all the time. After that I'd like to expand the system to be able to deal with all our usage, and then expand the batteries and see if we can get near zero grid usage.
We'll see, at the moment the central HVAC needs replacement so that's where the money is going.
I might think about it, I don't know that this is something I wanna DIY. I am really happy with the Enphase "all-in-one" type solution, and I'm tempted to stick with it for the batteries. It does mean more cost for sure, since not only do they charge more than DIY but they put micro-inverters in their batteries since they are an all-AC distribution solution.
They are 48v packs, you put 16 of the eve prismatic 280-314Ah batteries in each diy box. Its a ~300lb battery though, so have a way to move it lol.
Yep, he runs the diysolarforum also, great resource. I knew almost thing about solar a year or so ago, still have a lot to learn but learned enough to put in a fairly large system diy'd myself in that time that was able to pass all inspections.
Ya not necessarily those particular units but yes, those are the kind of batteries and they are a lot. In general they are going to be more than DIY because, well, ya but they also charge for the inverter/system integration.
lol
Don't forget the 30% tax credit on anything solar you buy and install, saved me 20k in taxes this past year.
Yup, used some of that last year on taxes.
The 140ah Redodo are what I use. 4x batteries were $1k shipped and I run 2p4s now so over 14kw/hr at $2k. They actually work very nice with an external balancer.
I find that doubtful. My 3 ton unit draws over 70 amps on initial surge and my 6kw LF really struggles as that is about 15kw.
How much did you spend on everything exactly - batteries, inverters, wires, panels, mounts, etc?
Dude kind of rubs me the wrong way but I get the appeal.
Watch some videos on it, lots of people have done load tests on them including signature soiar on their yt channel, I get it, they sell them.. but many others have as well, they are incredibly popular inverters and a huge bang for the buck and you can parallel up to 15 or 16 of them.
I spent ~70k total on my system, you can get 30% tax credit back on your entire install cost, since I diy'd it that includes specialty tools I had to buy etc, so in my case I got like 21k in tax credit, since I paid more than that in income taxes I got the 21k back, if I only owed/paid 10k in taxes I would get the 10k back only, they won't give 30% of the cost in a cash refund unless you owed at least that much in taxes.
Nice. Too rich for my blood and I think even $50k would be like 25 years return on investment foe me. Still you can't put a price on energy independence, which is why I am slowly building my system...