Recent content by Panhandlesolar

Before I do something really stupid I thought I would ask the collective to fact check me. Here is my equipment, 48 Blue sun 400 watt panels, 2 Blue Sun 2in 2out combined breaker boxes ( thats what came in the kit), then 2 10KW Growatt Grid Tie inverters, 3 MPPTs each. 48 Panels 49.55VOC each...

I guess I just never figured batteries were so expensive, I keep reading stories of people using 14KW Leaf cells and such and they really seem to be fairly reasonable in price. maybe I should buy a couple of those....more reading on my end....fun Our usage is high as we work from home and well...

Thanks for the insight and the link. Yes our area does do Net metering, I really want the Battery bank to eliminate the cycle time between losing grid to Generator. Honestly never thought to cost of being of off grid just thought about wanting independence so when SHTF we are prepared. I now...

Appreciate the input, I appreciate it being direct. Holy Crap....where did I go wrong...been using online calculators. Based on averaging my monthly bills, worked out to about 1700KWhper month, I increased it to 2000 KWh per month for some head room, divided by 30 days= 67KWh per day...

So I started a this DIY Grid connected project close to a year ago. Bought a 20KW DIY kit from BluesunPV in China off alibaba....Awesome deal..... The kit included 48 400Watt panels, 2 GROWATT 10KW MPPT Inverters, all combiners, racking system, cables.....the panels will be arranged in 6...