SenileOldGit
Solar Enthusiast
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My 12kW of ground mounted Canadian Solar 595W panels don't give out enough kWh to get me through a day during the Winter months, if it's a cloudy day. I was thinking of buying another 8kW of panels (you can now buy 8kW of new solar panels from BimbleSolar for £1,200 plus delivery) to use with a couple of extra Voltacon V5 inverters, but only during the Winter months. I would put the solar panels out in the garden on some sort of temporary mount - I was thinking of some sort of metal spike that fits onto each corner of a panel (so four per panel), and is then hammered into the ground. The angle of the panels would be about 30 to 45 degrees from the horizontal.
It would need to be something that isn't permanent, so that I can take all the panels up in the Spring - because otherwise I would have even more potential spare electricity than I do with 12kW of panels during the warmer months. (I have a big garden and I don't spend much time in it when it's cold, so this would be an ideal situation for me.)
It would need to be something that isn't permanent, so that I can take all the panels up in the Spring - because otherwise I would have even more potential spare electricity than I do with 12kW of panels during the warmer months. (I have a big garden and I don't spend much time in it when it's cold, so this would be an ideal situation for me.)