It has been a while since I have been on, but wanted to say thanks to those that answered my questions last summer and for all of the info.
When I finally decided to go solar, I jumped in head first and took off. I ordered all of my equipment (good sale on) and then worried about a building permit. No issues, had a building permit in less than a week. I went with a ground mount system using a SolarEdge inverter and DC optimizers with 40, 260watt Canadian Solar panels. I worked on this mostly on Saturdays and some weekday evenings. I was in no rush, so I took my time and had it completely installed by myself in about 9 weeks. Everything went very smooth and had no issues at all except for the weight of the 3" galvanized steel pipe that I used for the base of the racking system. That stuff is a little heavy! When I was finished, the building inspector checked it all out and I passed with flying colors. He even said that I above and beyond in most areas of the install and that I did a better job than most electricians.
So, it was done, now the waiting game with Rocky Mountain Power / Pacificorp. There was nothing wrong, but they were "very busy" and it took almost 3 months for the the engineer to approve my application and schedule a local tech to get a net meter set.
Today was the day. They showed up this morning with the new meter (took all of 30 seconds to change out) and I flipped the AC disconnect switch and away we went. So far it has ran for about 6.5 hours and I have generated a little over 44 KWh of which 30 has backfed for me to use tonight when the sun is down.
I have been toying with the idea of doing a little write up of my entire process if anyone could actually benefit from it as I took pictures and info all along the way.
Needless to say, I am very happy to have flipped the switch and be up and running on solar.
Thanks again to solarpaneltalk and its members. Great place for a lot of info.
Jorgey
When I finally decided to go solar, I jumped in head first and took off. I ordered all of my equipment (good sale on) and then worried about a building permit. No issues, had a building permit in less than a week. I went with a ground mount system using a SolarEdge inverter and DC optimizers with 40, 260watt Canadian Solar panels. I worked on this mostly on Saturdays and some weekday evenings. I was in no rush, so I took my time and had it completely installed by myself in about 9 weeks. Everything went very smooth and had no issues at all except for the weight of the 3" galvanized steel pipe that I used for the base of the racking system. That stuff is a little heavy! When I was finished, the building inspector checked it all out and I passed with flying colors. He even said that I above and beyond in most areas of the install and that I did a better job than most electricians.
So, it was done, now the waiting game with Rocky Mountain Power / Pacificorp. There was nothing wrong, but they were "very busy" and it took almost 3 months for the the engineer to approve my application and schedule a local tech to get a net meter set.
Today was the day. They showed up this morning with the new meter (took all of 30 seconds to change out) and I flipped the AC disconnect switch and away we went. So far it has ran for about 6.5 hours and I have generated a little over 44 KWh of which 30 has backfed for me to use tonight when the sun is down.
I have been toying with the idea of doing a little write up of my entire process if anyone could actually benefit from it as I took pictures and info all along the way.
Needless to say, I am very happy to have flipped the switch and be up and running on solar.
Thanks again to solarpaneltalk and its members. Great place for a lot of info.
Jorgey
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