I had talked about this in a prior thread many months back. Thank you for all the feedback.
6 boviet 370 W bifacial panels. The wiring from the A-Z store online. The conduit etc from the big orange box store. Took me about 2 weekends. 6 points to support the structure. 2 supported on the pool equipment pad.
2 on the fence to the left (aluminum posts). and 2 on concrete blocks.
Reason I am posting now-
1- Structure unaffected from last weeks derecho wind storm in Houston. Footings, slab, posts etc.. unchanged.
2- We lost power for 3 days. With cloud cover on the first 36 hours- no solar production- Battery had dropped so low that it shut itself down. In the morning when the sun came back out- The only reason the system booted back up- these 6 panels- gave enough juice to the battery for enough charge and eventually was able to power back up the enphase IQ7 inverters. If I didn't have this- sun or no sun- The IQ7 would never have come back online. all in all- no power for 4 hours.
Was able to host friends to sleep over and take care of them.
success!!!!
6 boviet 370 W bifacial panels. The wiring from the A-Z store online. The conduit etc from the big orange box store. Took me about 2 weekends. 6 points to support the structure. 2 supported on the pool equipment pad.
2 on the fence to the left (aluminum posts). and 2 on concrete blocks.
Reason I am posting now-
1- Structure unaffected from last weeks derecho wind storm in Houston. Footings, slab, posts etc.. unchanged.
2- We lost power for 3 days. With cloud cover on the first 36 hours- no solar production- Battery had dropped so low that it shut itself down. In the morning when the sun came back out- The only reason the system booted back up- these 6 panels- gave enough juice to the battery for enough charge and eventually was able to power back up the enphase IQ7 inverters. If I didn't have this- sun or no sun- The IQ7 would never have come back online. all in all- no power for 4 hours.
Was able to host friends to sleep over and take care of them.
success!!!!