Thread: 44 Solar panels fitted today

are you storing the power on site or reversing it to the grid

Back to the grid.

I know someone who tried to do it all with batteries and it became a big headache for him, so I thought I'd take the simple way out.

Nice going.
All you need now is an electric powered Landrover !!

Cool..How much did it cost?
Did you get any money back from the government?

Got quite a lot of rebate back from the government, because I got the application in before the cut-off date, back in June.

$8000 rebate from the federal Govt.
$2700 rebate from SA govt (I think that's who gave it) for RECS??
$2000 discount from supplier.

So from an original price of $29K I ended up paying just over $16K.

It's a long term thing. We are hoping to stay here for another 20 years, so it should well and truly pay for itself, and when we retire we won't have to worry about power bills (and in fact hope to get about $1000 a year from the electricity we generate and sell back to TRU Energy)

Good stuff,

I have an approved application from the Feds for my place too. Just trying to work out if it is worthwhile. For my 1Kw system its costing me 1500 out of the pocket.

I live by myself and that will generate more than I typically use over an annual basis.

But its good to see taking leadership with things like solar and going for it. What sort of panels and inverter do you have?

44 panels seems alot for a 2.5 Kw system...

Rich

The panels are a 60W 48V Japanese brand called Kaneka ('sp) I think. I saw the boxes they came in, but didn't really pay attention. They are very tough - you can walk on them.

The inverter is a SunnyBoy.

I am hoping to get more than 2500W on a sunny day, but so far I have only had overcast and patchy sun weather. In 2 days it has generated 14.8kW hrs.

Mate across the street just had a 2.8kw system installed last Friday...

We get over 10.5 hours of useful light at the moment!!! He's loving it!

We are getting 5kW system fitted tomorrow on the shed roof with a SB5000TL which will hook into my LAN for monitoring just nicely

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