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  • Post in thread: Complete Off-Grid House - 3000 sqft Ranch - Michigan

    My house is a little smaller than yours and had a 2 ton AC unit that I just had replaced with another 2 ton unit. The second floor does not get cooled as well as it should. The AC Company that just replaced the AC unit told me that the ducts and lack of return air ducts on an old house like...
  • Post in thread: Importing From Red China

    BEWARE OFALIBABA, I was planning to buy solar panels and an inverter on Alibaba last week. I got quotes for the panels that were about 11 to 14 cents per watt. The tariff (which I believe is now 60% for panels) and shipping for the panels made the cost about $3000 for twenty panels delivered...
  • Post in thread: Do optimizers that really work exist?

    Have you looked into using "tilt" or "angle" panel brackets. Bouge, Ecowothy and Vevor and Woefsete all have versions of this on Amazon. They are like $50 per panel on Amazon and allow you to mount panels so they always are angled south. I am planning to use eleven of these on a system I am...
  • Post in thread: Optimal production with Tigo optimizers

    If you haven't installed panels yet look into angle bracket panels available on Amazon. They can change the angle on east/west and north facing panels. Doing it on east/west means the panels have to be placed with the short edges down...portrait instead of landscape. My roofs are all 30...
  • Post in thread: Do optimizers that really work exist?

    The Tigo optimzers are supposed to work without The TAP and Cloud Connect. To get monitoring and Rapid Shutdown you need the TAP and Cloud Connect. I am going to be installing a system this summer and must have Rapid Shutdown at the panel level on every panel due to the local code. I decided...
  • Post in thread: Solar panel mounts

    Search Solar Panel Angle Mount on Amazon. Under $50 you can get two to support a panel. Without screwing it down to a roof on anchoring to the ground this would not be good in the wind....I plan on using about a dozen sets of these for 460 watt panels on the north facing sides of my house and...
  • Post in thread: Optimal production with Tigo optimizers

    I have understood that the diodes in panels help each panel to operate at the highest power level it can. I also understand that in a given string or MPPT the lowest power panel in the string will cause the rest of the panels in that string to be reduced to this same low level of power. The...
  • Post in thread: Panel grounding to rod at location (not to main breaker due to distance)

    That is what I am doing for my planned two planned arrays on the garage roof. It is only 75 feet from the house and I am using 10awg...same as the PV wires. I understand from my research that this is the preferred method. I have read discussion where previous codes required having a ground...
  • Post in thread: Which cables do I need for solar panels?

    I am in contact with Signature Solar now. The Bluesun 460 watt pnels I am planning on have the same alphabet soup of possible connectors. The TIGO Optimizers and Rapid Shutdown Units that will be on each panel will have Staubli brand connectors. I need to make sure that the Bluesum Panels...
  • Post in thread: Panel grounding to rod at location (not to main breaker due to distance)

    That would be one way...I guess...but it sounds reallly stupid.
  • Post in thread: Too good to be true?

    If it is sound too good to be true it probabgly is a SCAM.. I know from firsthand experience that the half price name brand solar panels and Inverters on Alibaba are definite0ly SCAMS. I suspect AliExpress is the same. They have "Verified Suppliers" on Alibaba....that means NOTHING.
  • Post in thread: 120% rule question. What if the load breakers are under 120%?

    I googled 200 amp 4 space panel box and it found no 4 space panels but lots of 8 space boxes....I believe available at Home Depot.
  • Post in thread: Amazing solar panel prices right now. Too good to be true?

    Alibaba prices for panels and inverters from some sellers are half the price as other sellers on Alibaba and half the cost of panels already in the USA. The cheaper ones are all SCAMS. I was sent the Owners Manual file for MEGAREVO inverter they wanted to sell me last week that was identical...
  • Post in thread: sunhub.com

    Did you place your order with sunhub or with a scammer pretending to be sunhub? If the order wasn't with sunhub directly why wait to file a claim with your insurance company.
  • Post in thread: Americus Energy

    Snap N Rck is only available from specific authorized suppliers. i have some Snap N Rack TopSpeed brackets in my cart right now from Signature Solar. Shipping is free this month for big orders.
  • Post in thread: Ordering Panels Direct from China

    I was ready to buy twenty panels and an inverter on Alibab laswt week. I discovered after researching and reviweing the information the suppliers sent me was that I was going to be SCAMMED. There may well be legitimate suppliers on Alibaba for solar stuff....but it is hard to tell sometimes...

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