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Probably because she neglected to consider the very important things seamajor has been listing above
Has anyone installed solar on their house?
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SDG&E. Any solar system I install has to be approved by SDG&E and they deliberately cap how much output you are allowed so that you will always have to pay them something.
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You don't say? You mean the power company has to approve any system which will ultimately ties back to their grid?
Thus invalidating all of Sea Major's sage advice on how to ensure your solar panel installers aren't really fry cooks in disguise?
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I am making it battery ready with a hybrid converter (as large a capacity converter as I can get approved so that I can build it out larger in the future if I want) but battery prices so high right now. So I will wait and see what happens with prices.
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it just doesn't work... I have the electric booster on 24/7 now.
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You should have followed sea major's 5 point program to vet your vendor properly
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Yeah.... it was an American company.... that should have been my first warning.... they're called Modern Homes....
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The thing about the battery world is eventually those RUBBISH products don't hold their charge.
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Well, as seamajor points out so eloquently you have to follow some very important steps when choosing a solar panel vendor / installation company.
First - make sure your installation company was founded on Planet earth. This may seem trivial but while having some of the most advanced societies in the universe aliens simply don't have the human background required to properly understand how solar energy might impact the daily lives of every day human beings.
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Did my sound, educated, experienced advice bother you. I’d love to inform you about the hundreds of installations I’ve been involved in. I could tell you were out of your league by your first post.
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No seriously. When you said the contractor should be licensed and what not? I knew I was dealing with the real deal on this one.
Then you really topped it all off when you methodically laid out all that wisdom about electrical wiring and how it should be connected back to the house wiring.
Just imagine if Oerdin didn’t know that already and his installers had something like PVC planned for him?
Crisis averted!
Then you really topped it all off when you methodically laid out all that wisdom about electrical wiring and how it should be connected back to the house wiring.
Just imagine if Oerdin didn’t know that already and his installers had something like PVC planned for him?
Crisis averted!
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Best of luck. You seem to be going about it in the right manner
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I am only looking at a six kilowatt system system but supposedly this inverter can handle up to 18 kilowatts. This is important because if you add another invertor or change the inverter then you have to get a new agreement with the utility company which would be Net Metering 3.0 which pays 85% less.
