Hey all - been reading the forums for quite a while trying to decide whether or not to pull the trigger on a solar project. My wife and I drank just enough the other night to convince ourselves that we should go all-in.
I spoke with @Amy Wan (Luyuan) - got a quote and made the decision to buy 48 of these puppies from her: 280Ah - 6000 cycle LiFePo4 LF280K
Cost Breakdown:
- $124.50 per cell
- $925 Shipping (To Oklahoma, USA)
- approximately $200 Transaction Fee (Credit Card Payment)
They are currently awaiting a delivery from EVE for these cells and informed me of this during our conversation. I am in no "real" rush for these as I still need to design and set up the charge controller, PV panel layout etc etc etc. She said the expected delivery time would be approximately 50 days. I'll update on this as I get info.
I already have 10 355w solar panels sitting in my shop doing nothing. Purchased them on a whim after I sat for 2 weeks with no power. I want to get those hooked up to an all-in-one inverter in the meantime. Haven't fully fletched it all out at this point but with (2) 200w panels in my house, I plan to move as much of my lighting/plugs as I can into a sub-panel to run off of solar while still having my heavy-load items such as the oven/stove/washer/drier/AC fed from the grid until I can scale the PV system up.
I have 2 months to get it all sorted/planned so wish me luck. After looking around a bit for an all-in-one, the Growatt 5k all-in-one inverter looks like a decent system so would love some opinions on them vs other inverters.
Thanks all!
David
I spoke with @Amy Wan (Luyuan) - got a quote and made the decision to buy 48 of these puppies from her: 280Ah - 6000 cycle LiFePo4 LF280K
Cost Breakdown:
- $124.50 per cell
- $925 Shipping (To Oklahoma, USA)
- approximately $200 Transaction Fee (Credit Card Payment)
They are currently awaiting a delivery from EVE for these cells and informed me of this during our conversation. I am in no "real" rush for these as I still need to design and set up the charge controller, PV panel layout etc etc etc. She said the expected delivery time would be approximately 50 days. I'll update on this as I get info.
I already have 10 355w solar panels sitting in my shop doing nothing. Purchased them on a whim after I sat for 2 weeks with no power. I want to get those hooked up to an all-in-one inverter in the meantime. Haven't fully fletched it all out at this point but with (2) 200w panels in my house, I plan to move as much of my lighting/plugs as I can into a sub-panel to run off of solar while still having my heavy-load items such as the oven/stove/washer/drier/AC fed from the grid until I can scale the PV system up.
I have 2 months to get it all sorted/planned so wish me luck. After looking around a bit for an all-in-one, the Growatt 5k all-in-one inverter looks like a decent system so would love some opinions on them vs other inverters.
Thanks all!
David