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A local solar company that two friends recommended is coming out this Friday to give an estimate. The one reason that I feel comfortable...

I'm no where near your level of electricity use. For my home I have 19kw in panels, 150kw in LiFePO4, and 4-6500ex inverters. My bills...

Or SolArk, which is popular. HighTechLab (Dexter of Current Connected) is vendor and forum member people find helpful and honest. He...

Wow. You could build quite the system for that kind of money.

Love that guy. He is to the point. Have watched many of his videos. Will go see this one. Thanks!

BTW, nice layout

yes, like hwy17 said it will be fine. I just wanted to explain the why of where the single N-G bond should be placed. given the panel...

NO, sorry for the confusion. @wheisenburg had suggested moving the N-G bond out of the main panel and into the transfer switch. I was...

yeah, agree he mentions in the first video, he could put the bond in either the disconnect or the panel. Being off-grid has some...

okay I used the phrase "the first means of disconnect" on purpose, as that is the requirement in the NEC for the location of the N-G...

In my system, I am either going to use the Schneider or transfer it to just a generator and disconnect from the Schneider (in case of...

you will find many solar companies have their own selections of product they will install and nothing else. My son had a system...

GET OFF MY LAWN!!!! lol

I think this law pretty much neutered the HOAs on the issue. I have a buddy that lives in Vegas and he installed solar pretty much as...

ah, great solution yes

I'm referring to these terminal lugs, circled in red here. Barrel lugs? These don't come with the product on amazon.

my tankless works with pre-heated water. I made sure of that when I bought. It just uses the nat gas to heat up the delta from inlet...

so that is a picture of your system at the moment correct? then you are replacing the disconnect switch with a transfer switch, right...

Ahh good deal. Interesting if local HOA warriors still put up a stink in defining/approving specific aspects of an install.

Nevada law (278.0208) does not allow HOAs to restrict solar systems. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-278.html#NRS278Sec0208 Also...