420watt bluetti proprietery solar panel... omg, i didnt look at the image. the 51,800 is for an entire unit... a 3kw unit...
Even considering that it's illegal there I think that guy is smoking too much devils lettuce even if the panels are that price who's buying them? Like I said type in "solar cell" into lazada, longi/era cells should be around the 5000 mark for 400w if your ok with other brands nakita/ja/Trina are same price but 550w bifacial.
Didn't mean his current setup, I've seen that it's going to blow away next storm he has. I was referring to the cost of the setup he's pricing up which seems to be like going from soap box cart to Ferrari.
all 4 of the solar panels that i have on my roof are 300watts and above.. each cost me 1000 php each... .. and many people on this thread repeatedly told me to get an AIO because everyone thinks i will start another Chernobyl or 3 mile island.. but so far.. nothing has sparked, exploded or given me any permant burns.. i may be doing this on the cheap.. and maybe that comes from my upbringing in Montreal.. but.. apart from 1 cooked battery that i got last year.. everything is functioning.. wel not the watt meter, but that arrived defective.. which happens, even my ps4 was borked back home...
None of these solar panels are 300w I would struggle to believe you if you said 50w sorry. Here is a 18v 30w poly-crystalline with a CD for reference
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For the power they are producing probably not but its certainly not a best practice.
thank you.. im thinking about that as well but "waiting" to save money while my entire solar setup is within eyeshot is quite aggrevating....
if i may ask, how do you link more than 1 solar panel to a battery ??? just curious if i ever plonk down that gigantic solar panel that claims to be 350 watts...
Totally depends on the size of the SCC/mppt either you purchase panels to match the SCC or SCC to match the panels.
And when you get enough panels you use a combiner box between them and the SCC.
No idea about that maybe if I get that far but I'll likely just stick to AiO's I have a few 10amp epever tracers running 12v for Arduino/esp and solenoids for irrigation but they are pretty basic.
I like using them for having an inline easy to access disconnect, fusing and surge suppression for my strings.
Thailand has a max 5kw limit for on-grid and our max peak usage is 4kw though typically we average around 1kw so I doubt I would go much bigger maybe a 8kw on grid and max tie of 5kw output but I'm still wrapping my head around where to fit the strings and how im going to cool it all.
Suncalc.org might help you decide on locations.
I know the crazy sun positions here (sun this time of year is north by a few degrees most of the time, yes I said north) it's not so much that, more what part of our land to actually place the strings on too many choice all with their pros and cons, the idea place logistically I realized has too much shading by trees the next great spot means alot of cable it's kinda one evil or the other here we have too many endangered trees and giant fruit trees with either shouldn't cut down or don't want to.
No I'm kinda against it tbh mini splits are fine untill they reach 80+% humidity then the performance drops drastically, I've already started a thread on it I'm kinda swayed by ground source cooling but sure if I go oil bath or radiator and fanObviously your going to cool it with a new mini split since you'll have free power to run it.
It's a heavy dented very thin tin roof that's made to look like tiles, thats eventually going to cave in if he continues to walk on open sections rather than joists. So look out for that in future posts, hopefully he's recording when it happens.
i see, i just thought that twisting all the solar panel cables together would lessen the output somehow, im still learning... i mean twisting all the same polarity together.. like all the positive together.. naturally..
roof isnt tiled.. just a concrete slab with som weird plastic on top.. although yes it does appear tiled...
that would be putting them in parallel.
thank you thank you, that is exactly what i wanted to know, i thought it was accumulative.. .. as in if you have 2 panels 100 watts each and you add a 3rd that has 50 watts by twisting all the positive wires and putting it into the mppt.. and likewise for the negative. i thought you would get 250 watts coming in... thank you for clearing that up...
