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  • Post in thread: Help me understand and make sure this will work

    I am in Kansas so we get a fair bit of sun in the summer. I have awning over my patio that gets full sun all day and it would be perfect to add some solar panels on top, the area is roughly 22' x 12'. My thoughts are this I can fit 9 panels in a 3x3 grid, was looking at the Canadian Solar 400W...
  • Post in thread: Help me understand and make sure this will work

    Right now the patio has no roof at all I would be building it specifically for this. So I can build it however would best suit the system. I don't plan to buy a single thing prior to speaking to the power company and an electrician, but wanted to make sure before I did that that this is even a...
  • Post in thread: Help me understand and make sure this will work

    Based on that site I would generate roughly 5,804 kWh/Year, over the last 12 months I have used 14,673kWh. So in theory it would cut my current bill by about 1/3.
  • Post in thread: Help me understand and make sure this will work

    I currently have a shade cloth on 4x4's so there is no actual roof and it would be built for this. Sorry if that was confusing. Why do you think I am closer to $6k I can buy the panels and growatt inverter right now for $3k. I am not including the cost of building out the awning for this...
  • Post in thread: Help me understand and make sure this will work

    An answer like that doesnt really answer the question. What am I not including that I need to plan for?
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