After being scammed by Voltacon I regrouped and finally have
solar working as of August 20th, 2016. I wasted a lot of time with
friends who were in the Solar business and tried to scam me; I had the biggest
solar contractors who proposed to build me systems from 13KW to 15KW and the
proposals were around USD 72k to USD 85K without any rebates, discounts, tax
deductions – so essentially these are all scams. No one needs such huge systems
as in my opinion the best thing way to start is to build solar power system to
generate enough power for your average use.
I decided to go with a Fronius 10K inverter and LG265Watt Solar
panels, the inverter was around USD 3K and the Solar Panels were around USD 6K.
However the inverter didn’t include any monitoring capabilities – these were
optional cards. I did purchase the WLAN and Ethernet Datacom card and waiting
to install them as of 08/26/2016
The inverter allows you to have multiple arrays of PV
panels, I started with the part of the roof with peak sunlight, 10 PV Solar
panels were directly under the southern exposed sunlight for 6 hours – peaking
around noon time; the other two PV arrays were to compensate for when the sun
moves from East to West – these PV panels get the extra power that I needed as
the sun sets and I am generating significant power from 7am to 6pm.
I don’t have any data or reports – but will post them here
as soon as they are available; although I am producing more power than I am using – I am not on any NET Metering
plans – as I understand PSEGLI charges customers more money for the power usage
after sunset; and they are lobbying to stop rebates, subsidies for Solar
customers – so I am wondering what will happen to people who invested large
sums into their Solar Projects and selling their GREEN power to the utility
currently with the ROI model that includes the utility paying them for unused
power ????
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