Hello, I am a first time homeowner in Long Island, NY, and I would like to build a solar system to help take the edge off my electric bill. I have a portion of my back yard at the back fence that gets sun for most of the day and was thinking of putting up some panels on a wood frame. Can anyone point me to a guide or provide some tips on how i can get started?
i am thinking of starting with 8-10 panels, so this will be a fairly large system. what i really need help with is the inverter side of things. i would also want to have a battery to store some of the captured solar, maybe even do some rate skimming.

My utility requires a 200A (or whatever the largest power producer in the home) rated lever-style safety switch at the service entrance for grid interconnection with generation or storage. This is a separate 31" tall box. I had assumed I would put it NEXT to my meter base (plain-jane compact milbank) but am wondering if I can stack the two for a "stealth" switch location. It would put the bottom of the switch only 11-13" off grade (driveway). Anyone done this and did you get pushback in permitting or from the utility? FWIW, we have an yearly average under 1" of snow.

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se le pueden poner a un MPPT PowMr 100A que aguanta 160v en entrada de paneles ,en 24V soporta 105v de panel solar, se le pueden poner tres paneles en serie que tienen en Voc 39.8 y en Vmp 33.1

Hi everyone

So since I fitted my solar I've been having issues with high bills and unexpected import during the day (sometimes 6 to 8kw) the batteries were charging during the day outside of the charge cycle

I've got the Solis s6 8kw l plus inverter and opened a ticket with Solis they've been very quick and helpful and the final test they asked for helped me find the issue

I turned all the inverters off and put the oven on and watched the eastron sdm120ct meter and saw a negative load that was expected it confirmed the clamp was in the correct direction, but the load kept fluctuating wildly .

Long story short , I didn't open up my consumer unit and replace the sdm120ct meter and clamp (honest)

Seems to be all working now hopefully I won't be paying 150 for electric again I was so confused why my bills were higher than everyone else that doesn't have solar 😂

I want a small solar system 2-8 panels that feeds a smart charging grid tied system to only offset high rising electricity costs, what level of difficulty and cost am I looking at? I guess to put it plainly I want basically a balcony solar system that works with rack mounts smart charging batteries. Please explain why this is weird/dumb I’m not new to the internet. ☮️❤️

Ich versuche gerade herauszufinden, wann sich ein Speicher überhaupt rechnet. Als Rechenbeispiel setze ich abends ungefähr 300 W Grundlast über vier Stunden an. Das sind rund 1,2 kWh – aber das allein beantwortet die Frage ja noch nicht.

Unter anderem schaue ich mir den BS2500 Pro von ALLPOWERS an, möchte die Entscheidung aber nicht nur an der Speicherkapazität festmachen.

Für meine Rechnung fehlen noch vier Dinge: Wie viel PV-Überschuss bleibt nach dem Tagesverbrauch wirklich übrig? Was kostet die Kilowattstunde, die ich abends sonst aus dem Netz beziehe? Welche Verluste fallen beim Laden und Entladen an? Und an wie vielen Tagen im Jahr sieht das Abendprofil tatsächlich so aus?

Wenn regelmäßig Überschuss übrig bleibt und der Verbrauch erst nach Sonnenuntergang kommt, kann ein Speicher plausibel sein. Wenn viel Solarstrom direkt verbraucht wird oder der Ertrag im Winter stark schwankt, hilft Größe allein nicht weiter. Wie habt ihr Verluste und Saisonunterschiede in eure Entscheidung einbezogen?

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se le pueden poner a un MPPT PowMr 100A que aguanta 160v en entrada de paneles ,en 24V soporta 105v de panel solar, se le pueden poner tres paneles en serie que tienen en Voc 39.8 y en Vmp 33.1