Hello all,
I've scoured the forum with both the advanced search and regular search and couldn't find a post/sticky that answered the questions I had about a small grid tied system. I apologise in advance because I know that these questions must have been answered somewhere before in pockets and I'm just lousy at searching I'd suggest. I'm finally building a small house and would like to use a couple panels (4 to start) to offset my power bills. I'm at work during the day Mon-Fri and expect that the panels should provide enough power for my network gear, a headless server that runs 24/7, my refrigerator, and any other electronics/appliances in a standby mode. My hope is that on weekends it would offset the use of the A/C units during the day and my music gear (studio monitors, board, couple pairs of turntables, mixer etc.). I've run the numbers and figured that 4 panels is a decent start with plans to get to 8/12/16 as budget and roof space would allow.
First question: does any of this make sense or is this a POS idea to begin with?
I have will have sun from 6:30am to 5:30pm and generally have clear skies outside of rainy season (10.6918° N) so I was looking at the Renogy 2 Pack 100W 12V Monocrystalline Solar Panel, Compact Design 42.2 X 19.6 X 1.38in, High Efficiency Module PV (cheaper to buy two, 2 packs funnily than one, 4 pack) and a 1000w Grid Tied Inverter unit. The Inverter would run to a main kill switch (just in case) before the 'solar breaker' in my main panel which will route power throughout my home's electrical system.
sunshine chart.png
Second batch of questions: Are the Renogy units ok units? Are there better from a cost/benefit position? Am I missing anything in my concept for how I would run this? Should I be looking at 12V or 24V for this kind of concept?
I'm not too sure about connecting the panels but I'll not get there until I wrap my head around the basics first, establish cost, and choose what my best/optimum path would be.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Cheers.
I've scoured the forum with both the advanced search and regular search and couldn't find a post/sticky that answered the questions I had about a small grid tied system. I apologise in advance because I know that these questions must have been answered somewhere before in pockets and I'm just lousy at searching I'd suggest. I'm finally building a small house and would like to use a couple panels (4 to start) to offset my power bills. I'm at work during the day Mon-Fri and expect that the panels should provide enough power for my network gear, a headless server that runs 24/7, my refrigerator, and any other electronics/appliances in a standby mode. My hope is that on weekends it would offset the use of the A/C units during the day and my music gear (studio monitors, board, couple pairs of turntables, mixer etc.). I've run the numbers and figured that 4 panels is a decent start with plans to get to 8/12/16 as budget and roof space would allow.
First question: does any of this make sense or is this a POS idea to begin with?
I have will have sun from 6:30am to 5:30pm and generally have clear skies outside of rainy season (10.6918° N) so I was looking at the Renogy 2 Pack 100W 12V Monocrystalline Solar Panel, Compact Design 42.2 X 19.6 X 1.38in, High Efficiency Module PV (cheaper to buy two, 2 packs funnily than one, 4 pack) and a 1000w Grid Tied Inverter unit. The Inverter would run to a main kill switch (just in case) before the 'solar breaker' in my main panel which will route power throughout my home's electrical system.
sunshine chart.png
Second batch of questions: Are the Renogy units ok units? Are there better from a cost/benefit position? Am I missing anything in my concept for how I would run this? Should I be looking at 12V or 24V for this kind of concept?
I'm not too sure about connecting the panels but I'll not get there until I wrap my head around the basics first, establish cost, and choose what my best/optimum path would be.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Cheers.
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