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I perused the 2023 code book and it looks like it is allowed. I had not, however, considered UV damage. The west side of the house gets pounded with sun in the afternoon. I will look into using metal. I will have to buy a conduit bender. Wont be the end of the world though.

Hi all! I was wondering if anyone out there knew when to use which type of conduit? Right now I plan to have trunk cables land in a junction box either on the roof or on the facia board. From there I was planing to use Ultratite Liquidtight flexible pvc conduit to run from the junction box down...

Its wild isn't It? My town gives not one single fuck what you do on your property, with like two small exceptions. And yeah of the only two tradesman I have worked with, Earth works guy and Concrete guy, HATE chasing money. I have always paid them cash on the day the job was completed and they...

I have. Parts of it have already shipped. I'm beyond the point of cancellation.

The price of batteries to reliably stay off grid would have been...cost prohibitive. I thought about buying an oversized inverter and taking circuits off grid slowly, as funds became available. But ultimately decided against it. If I was going to change anything I might have done a string...

Will do. I'm planning to reach out to him again when my parts arrive. I want to offer him some other paid work, changing the meter box. The one on the house now is about 30 years old and doesn't have an exterior breaker like the new ones. Hopefully that will give me a chance to talk to the guy...

I don't really blame them either. With the liability falling squarely on them, makes it hard to do that sort of work for someone they don't know. Though I would be happy sign anything that would absolve them of liability if such a thing was possible. I do however believe that if the town or...

Northern Waldo county. I may have found a guy yesterday up north of Bangor who seemed willing to do it, but I couldn't get him to confirm an inspection date. I have called something like 40 electricians and solar companies at an increasing distance from my place.

There are only a handful of electricians that I have found that know anything about solar. None of them will do inspections. They want to personally install any AC involved in the process. All the solar companies want to do all the work, and only with there equipment. It has been a frustrating...

Hi folks. I was wondering if anyone out there knows any Maine electricians that will inspect DIY grid tied micro-inverter systems? Seems like a long shot, but thought I might as well ask. Thanks to anyone that takes the time to read this!

Does one failed Micro-inverter stop production of the entire array? And that's fair, if your not comfortable on a roof then keeping as many components at ground level as possible would be quite important. Thanks for responding!

Mostly for ease of installation. Partly to avoid the single point of failure of a string inverter. Partly because I like the Idea of near individual panel level measurements. I also wanted to make sure partial shading didn't reduce the output of the whole array. So if I was gonna have to attach...

Hi Everyone! I'm looking to get some feedback on a system in planning to buy later this week. Signature solar has a sale going on and i want to take advantage of it. This would be a grid tied system using micro inverters. The system would be roof mounted. The system would be sitting on a 4-12...