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I've been browsing around and landed on this panel from this vendor. https://www.santansolar.com/product/new-qcells-365w-solar-panel/ Is the vendor ok? Is this panel just fine or is there a better equal but cheaper option yall have found recently?

Would you say REC is a quality brand in your experience?

I want to take my shop and water well off the grid and am starting this journey in a rural area where there are no reliable solar/battery installers. I'm considering a DIY approach but having anxiety of purchasing unreliable equipment and navigating misleading sites about solar panels. Are...

Can you point me to the URL of where you purchased these batteries (product page)

I see some really mixed comments in the forum about CS but the comments sometimes are quite old. What is the current state of Canadian Solar panels. Good construction now? Warranty good now?

I live in Central Texas and want to a take a building off-grid. Still leave it hooked up to coop utility just in case but have it be off the grid. My Summer kWh is really in-line with my Winter. I have some anomalies but it stays pretty level at 35kWh but has spiked to 91. How much solar should...

Nice! Where did you buy them?

Can you expand please on that comment regarding watching amps/voc. How did your amp/voc correlate to grouping + how you wanted to use them.

Is there a good list somewhere of who the current reputable seller of pallets of solar panels are in the US?

So really amps are the only major thing you need to match for panels to work flawlessly together? How do you determine the amps of a panel? Most panels have Maximum Fuse Rating, Open Circuit Voltage, Short Circuit Current .... You are getting the max amps from the MFR?

Water well, ceiling fans, 2 mini splits, lights, conventional water heater, air compressor.

Just curious to get a good sample of what exact panels you are running and why among all the different brands/models you chose what you did.

@MaikaiLifeDIY Where did you buy your Sol Ark?

What is the maximum solar input this inverter can handle? Is this accurate? Daily Solar Input=19.5kW×5hours=97.5kWh/day If this is accurate, what do people most commonly do when they need more input allowed, do they tandem inverters or find a larger inverter?

I am very new so starting to learn the in's and out's ... can you expand on this please. Say I buy panels, I buy a rack of server batteries, I then need to charge the batteries to 100% out of the gate otherwise they will never balance? My Tesla sits @ 80% for optimal longevity. Am I too assume...

So you have 38 panels that produce 346 watts each? Then you have 6 5kWh batteries for 30kWh storage? I am looking at doing something similar and just starting the process. That seems like a massive system though to just power an RV and well pump?

I should have been far more descriptive ... Yes I am looking for companies like Santan and Signature that sell whole pallets that are trusted as selling quality pallets of panels.

Where did you two buy your panels from?

Are panels totally agnostic; you could have 10 different brand/models feeding into the same charge controller without any issues?

Nice! What panels are those?

So QCELLS and REC are not on that list? How come?