troglegs
I Love Electricity... I Hate Plumbing
I’ve bought my second EG4 Hybrid Mini-Split HVAC unit (I love them!) to deploy on a 200sqft shed building on my property and it being a 10’ x 20’ roof dimension - coupled with the EG4’s 12amp max input on the DC PV array, I was thinking of buying 8 of these bifacial panels and putting them all in series on top of my white-painted metal roof on the building. They’re also lighter weight and under 64” long (the max distance from my roof to the edge of the eaves on the building), so I calculated I can get 8 of them up there at a max roof load of ~175lbs. Since I’m in literally the sunniest place on the planet in SW Arizona - I was planning on putting in a dual feed on these panels - one powering the minisplit in the Summer, and another routing with appropriate shutoffs on each feed to divert the usage of the panels in the wintertime (when we’re at the location with our RV) to a general purpose mppt solar controller and inverter to generate off grid power for the rv lot.
Can anyone see some reason why these $139 panels would NOT be a good choice? Any gotchas that perhaps you’ve seen with them?
Thanks
Tom
Can anyone see some reason why these $139 panels would NOT be a good choice? Any gotchas that perhaps you’ve seen with them?
Thanks
Tom