Santan solar deal

[sunshine_eggo]

I don't know.

I'm just a snob. For whatever I already have. Be it SMA or StatPower, Fluke or Harbor Freight.
And of course Pete's coffee.

Pete's or Peet's?

 

[G00SE]

I don't know.

I'm just a snob. For whatever I already have. Be it SMA or StatPower, Fluke or Harbor Freight.
And of course Pete's coffee.

Was just teasing due to that quarantined pallet in the other thread

 

[42OhmsPA]

The question for me is whether it is worth getting SunPower, REC, QCell used, for the same $/W as new panels of other brands like Gstar, NE Solar sold by Inxeption.

Those are more apples to apples in terms of efficiency (wattage per unit area), so more a question of quality and degradation rate.

I have 18 used 315W Q Cells on my roofs, 9S and 9W. They have to be at least 5 years old probably closer to 10; I have 0 doubts they would perform to rated capacity if angled appropriately.
I have 14 370W NE solar ground mounted and angled appropriately, I've seen them exceed rated power on numerous occasions for a sustained period. I was doubting the data from my "tier 2" AIO so much that I bought a Victron 100/20 and added 2 more NE solar in series aimed slightly SW, they've also exceeded rated capacity multiple times.

Edit to add the Q Cells seem to perform better in cloudy weather but I've attributed that to the shallower angle instead of a better low light efficiency.

 

[seneysolar]

The question for me is whether it is worth getting SunPower, REC, QCell used, for the same $/W as new panels of other brands like Gstar, NE Solar sold by Inxeption.

Those are more apples to apples in terms of efficiency (wattage per unit area), so more a question of quality and degradation rate.

These seem like a great deal for 410w. Im partial to panels with a low VOC, these are 37.xx. I can comfortably use 3 per string with a 150v CC.

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[Hedges]

Pete's or Peet's?

Oops, it is my single malt that's supposed to have undertones of pete. Or was that peet?
Oh Peat.

touché

And I'm the one who keeps jabbing people for misused homonyms.

 

[Danke]

The question for me is whether it is worth getting SunPower, REC, QCell used, for the same $/W as new panels of other brands like Gstar, NE Solar sold by Inxeption.

Those are more apples to apples in terms of efficiency (wattage per unit area), so more a question of quality and degradation rate.

You can get new 21-22% efficiency panels like Longi , Jinko, etc from China for $0.10W. With shipping ~$0.20W