Recent content by TheFlumph

lol. I cant even see my neighbors from where I am. Its possible that may look suspicious. Plus they already cashed my check.

Well said on all accounts. I was scolded locally the other day for calling my brook a creek lol. "this isnt the south! its called a brook, not a creek!" I proceeded to call it a crik for the rest of the day. sorry about that transformer price. I dont feel as bad now. Its not fun buying...

It was about $1800 for a 15kva

I messed with it for a few minutes and it didn't seem to be a problem with the 7.0. maybe I did it wrong. But unless I'm wrong, I think it doesnt mater with grid tied like it does with off grid inverters. I didnt think the inverters need to talk or anything like that. 30 panels into each and...

Ya I might try for the forgiveness route if I go slightly over 15k. It’s the same with growatt and fronius 7.6. The occasional extra 200 watts isn’t hurting anything.

Ya I’m hoping this helps my return go easier and my restock fee to get waived.

I don’t mind this thread getting bumped honestly. I never got help about my ac combiner question. lol.

I hear back from signature solar about this. Apparently it’s not possible the moment for the 18kpv to function as a grid only inverter. “the 18k does not currently function as a "grid tie only" inverter. It seems this is the only application in which the EG4 18kPV does not operate well...

That’s a great point about the 18k. I messaged eg4 the other day with just that question. I wasn’t sure about the Gen outbound and load terminals being used. The utility supplies the meter. I’ll need to check with them.

I have heard bad things about solar edge inverter reliably. There was a link I saw in here that showed up to 30% failure. The. Then sent lawyers after the guy who was reviewing them. Fortunately I don’t have shading. It’s a ground mount in a field.

bump please

Im also considering the Fronius primo 15kw if anyone has any experience with that one.

I looked at the enphase, but for 60 panels it would cost me way too much. I already own the panels. Enphase would cost me almost 4x what sma string inverters would. I did look at the hoymiles 4 in 1 but I just dont know how reliable they would be. Those would be about $1000 more than the 2 sunny...

So after running into a roadblock with my 18kpv and backup plans with my utility (they require a separate production meter) Ive decided to go net metering only for now. Im gonna try to find two sunny boy 7.0 inverters (unfortunately just discontinued). They said I could keep my old plan and add...

Ya my frost line is like 8 feet and extremely rocky. When I trenched for the wire conduit part of my trench was 8’ wide from digging out bolders.