KITROBASKIN
Solar Enthusiast
Thanks for the explanation! Thanks for the good attitude you have demonstrated with this thread.
Wow is all I can say
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ScottMandarich
Scott Mandarich
I been around some. People like to kick other people when they are down for some reason. No point on throwing a fit about it.
MurphyGuy
It just needs a bigger hammer
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I just checked out a1solarstore and was surprised by their ridiculously high prices.
Nice website layout, I'll give them that.. but pricing is just stupid.
I prefer Renvu.. Three orders from them and excellent customer service as well as the lowest pricing I can find on the internet.
That still doesn't look as bad and if you added a couple busbars it would clean up quite a bit.
This sounds like a paid advertisement to me. I bought 12 panels from the a1solarstore warehouse local to me for about $240 each. Huge panels about 400W each. They have some higher end panels, but the harbor freight crap was not in the same league.
MurphyGuy
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You mean an advertisement from me? Other than a genuine satisfaction with Renvu, nope.
I simply went to the a1solarstore and look up the price of a well known manufacture of a 400 watt panel.. Here's a link:
Q Cells 400W Solar Panel 132 Cell Q.PEAK DUO BLK ML-G10+ - A1 Solar Store
Q Cells 400W Solar Panel 132 Cell Q.PEAK DUO BLK ML-G10+ impresses with its outstanding visual appearance and particularly high performance on a small surface. Look into detailed descriptions, pictures at A1 Solar Store
a1solarstore.com
I focused on Q-cells because I have 400 watt Q-cells on my own system.
Then I went to Renvu to compare prices.. There isn't an exact match, but what I'm interested in is a comparison for well known brand names on a per-watt basis.
What I found are Hyundai panels 395 watts for $184.76 which is 47 cents per watt. (Screen grab attached)
I also found 480 watt Q-cells for 63.4 cents per watt. (Screen grab attached)
Not an advertisement, just a general satisfied customer who shops around. I installed my original solar system in 2017 from Renvu, then added on to it in 2020... and have made several purchases from them in the thousands of dollars range since.
And again, looking at another random product sample.. The Enphase IQ8A microinverter.. Renvu Price $186.86 A1SolarStore $225.07
I could probably go on and on with comparisons between Renvu and the A1 OverPriceSolarStore, but I think that's enough.
Renvu has consistently been one of two or three lowest priced sellers since I started shopping around back in 2016.
Sorry if you paid too much for your hardware. They do seem to be selling reputable brand names and like I said, I do like their website layout.. They're just too expensive.. and not by a few pennies either..
Electro-Bama
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...I'll just take a break from disturbing news video and learn some more wiring things at Prowse's website.
...I SEE THE MOST DISTURBING VIDEO I'VE SEEN ALL DAY.
...I SEE THE MOST DISTURBING VIDEO I'VE SEEN ALL DAY.
ScropusGobbleBottom
Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Thats a nice and positive outlook on this! Kudos!
Hedges
I See Electromagnetic Fields!
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$700, I have spent.
Then there is Snap-On.
Or for well-heeled cheapskates, Harbor Freight Icon?
I was picking up one top chest for my lab. HF was closing out Series 2 to make way for more expensive Series 3, so 44" chest was $300 (and dropping every week, although different colors varied in price).
After I got home, I realized I could line a garage wall with Series 2 for the price ($3000) of just one 6' Icon roller cabinet. The whole Icon setup would be some $15k.
So I raided all the HF stores within gas tank range, snapping up whatever Series 2 they had in stock. I ended up with 5x 44" roller cabinets, 4x 44" top chests, 1x 56" top cabinet (some modification required to stack, now extends over my compressor) and 4x end lockers. That's about 23 linear feet of cabinets for some $2500 to $3000.
My biggest problem now is knowing which of ~100 drawers has what I'm looking for.
I'll post a photo later.
If someone is near San Lois Obispo, they may have this one for $99. Call first, sometimes not available despite website.
Harbor Freight Tools – Quality Tools at Discount Prices Since 1977
Harbor Freight buys their top quality tools from the same factories that supply our competitors. We cut out the middleman and pass the savings to you!
www.harborfreight.com
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Nobodybusiness
Solar Sponge.
No kidding.
I have a hard enough time remembering now where stuff is in my 2 full size boxes..
rodrick
Free energy enthusiast
The beauty of getting old is you can do your own Easter egg hunts no help required
OzSolar
Whatever you did, that's what you planned.
Old friends and I are to the place where we share new stories all the time. Of course they are just the same old stories but since we've both forgotten that we've already told or heard them before it's all good.
I used these :My biggest problem now is knowing which of ~100 drawers has what I'm looking for.
Harbor Freight Tools – Quality Tools at Discount Prices Since 1977
Harbor Freight buys their top quality tools from the same factories that supply our competitors. We cut out the middleman and pass the savings to you!
Not my tool box but thats about how they looked on mine.
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That is fine as long as a different conclusion is not expected…
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