rabtech
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I am an IT consultant in north alabama. I have a good handle on wiring and electronics.
I was recently paid for a IP camera system with a pallet of Waree 545watt solar panels. I have been wanting to supplement my power with solar for a long time. My power bill is always over 500 and sometimes up to 650. I have everything in my home swapped over to "smart" devices. I have zigbee, zeewave, and wifi smart devices. I have 31 smart switches and my 2 water meters 1" and 2" even have smart devices inline. I just swapped to a new Sensi (Spelling) Thermostat. I have a Reem 5ton power sucker series heat pump that blows snowballs also.
I have a 200 amp service and I have the emporia 16 zone energy monitor on the panel. I had the Sense energy monitor and hated it. Before the Sense monitor I had a TED 1000 and then a 5000 system.
I will include my power usage screenshots from Emporia below.
Getting back to my issue. I do not want to sell any power back to the grid. And I do not want to have a single battery. I simply want to install all the panels on my hillside facing the correct way at the correct angle. I want to take one of the outside disconnect breaker slots (there are 6) and use it to feed everything with as much power as I can produce. When the power is off I want the the inverter to cut off. If I need more than I'm producing I want to pull more from the grid.
A simple hybrid split phase inverter should be all I need correct?
I just want to make 2 panel groups and wire so the voltage is as much as possible without going over 500volt.
Waree bifacial BI-55-545 are the panels and I have 31 of them. And technically I guess I could get another pallet. I just had rather have money for the next invoice.
So in theory I can make almost 17kw with those panels. If I reduced the number of panels down to 14kw or even 10kw what is a good and simple inverter to use to supplement my power during the day time hours.
I would like the ability to possibly add (3 or 4) 5kw battery's to it if possible. Just not this year. I can not see a need to export power to the grid.
Alabama power has a terrible solar purchase agreement.
Thanks in advance. I'll post the pics of my energy monitor data shortly
I was recently paid for a IP camera system with a pallet of Waree 545watt solar panels. I have been wanting to supplement my power with solar for a long time. My power bill is always over 500 and sometimes up to 650. I have everything in my home swapped over to "smart" devices. I have zigbee, zeewave, and wifi smart devices. I have 31 smart switches and my 2 water meters 1" and 2" even have smart devices inline. I just swapped to a new Sensi (Spelling) Thermostat. I have a Reem 5ton power sucker series heat pump that blows snowballs also.
I have a 200 amp service and I have the emporia 16 zone energy monitor on the panel. I had the Sense energy monitor and hated it. Before the Sense monitor I had a TED 1000 and then a 5000 system.
I will include my power usage screenshots from Emporia below.
Getting back to my issue. I do not want to sell any power back to the grid. And I do not want to have a single battery. I simply want to install all the panels on my hillside facing the correct way at the correct angle. I want to take one of the outside disconnect breaker slots (there are 6) and use it to feed everything with as much power as I can produce. When the power is off I want the the inverter to cut off. If I need more than I'm producing I want to pull more from the grid.
A simple hybrid split phase inverter should be all I need correct?
I just want to make 2 panel groups and wire so the voltage is as much as possible without going over 500volt.
Waree bifacial BI-55-545 are the panels and I have 31 of them. And technically I guess I could get another pallet. I just had rather have money for the next invoice.
So in theory I can make almost 17kw with those panels. If I reduced the number of panels down to 14kw or even 10kw what is a good and simple inverter to use to supplement my power during the day time hours.
I would like the ability to possibly add (3 or 4) 5kw battery's to it if possible. Just not this year. I can not see a need to export power to the grid.
Alabama power has a terrible solar purchase agreement.
Thanks in advance. I'll post the pics of my energy monitor data shortly
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