Hello Im a new member here and cant believe the amount of knowledge and experience I've seen already. Ive been watching Will's stuff on YouTube for quite sometime and greatly appreciate everything he's done, along with everyone here.
We live in the northeast and use an above average amount of power for a single family home. Our bills are through the roof and I've finally decided its time to begin making the switch. We use on average 17k kw a year here, with a larger portion in the summer months, up to 2k a month then.
I bought a pallet of Solarever 410w to start and plan on running 2 strings of ten panels each on my first mounting location. We have full exposure from nearly sun up to sun down, so hoping we can take advantage of that. The southern facing roof im mounting on allowed me to get more of the 410s than the 455s on it with a higher output, which is why I chose those. The voc is also considerably less and allows me to add more per string while staying under the limits of the Eg4 6500exs I intend to buy now. Which leads me to my first question. I intend to start out grid tied as stated and move to fully off grid as I can afford to keep building a bigger bank. Would I be wise to go with 2of the Eg4s starting out and expand to 4 or 6, or go with something else? Im going to be building my banks from eve 280s or 304s, with roughly 30 kwh to start, which brings me to next question. I will probably want at least 90kwh bank in the near future, and will need enclosures and/or safe mounting in my basement. I like the dewalt rack idea as my friend uses them in his garage and they're built extremely well. Would that be a good option, mounting buss bars on each end? Do they sell reasonably priced bases to put each group in, or full enclosures? Or should i build something around them and leave them exposed on the shelves? Sorry I'm throwing a few things out here at once, just wanted to fully explain my setup and give an introduction. Thank you for all and any input!
We live in the northeast and use an above average amount of power for a single family home. Our bills are through the roof and I've finally decided its time to begin making the switch. We use on average 17k kw a year here, with a larger portion in the summer months, up to 2k a month then.
I bought a pallet of Solarever 410w to start and plan on running 2 strings of ten panels each on my first mounting location. We have full exposure from nearly sun up to sun down, so hoping we can take advantage of that. The southern facing roof im mounting on allowed me to get more of the 410s than the 455s on it with a higher output, which is why I chose those. The voc is also considerably less and allows me to add more per string while staying under the limits of the Eg4 6500exs I intend to buy now. Which leads me to my first question. I intend to start out grid tied as stated and move to fully off grid as I can afford to keep building a bigger bank. Would I be wise to go with 2of the Eg4s starting out and expand to 4 or 6, or go with something else? Im going to be building my banks from eve 280s or 304s, with roughly 30 kwh to start, which brings me to next question. I will probably want at least 90kwh bank in the near future, and will need enclosures and/or safe mounting in my basement. I like the dewalt rack idea as my friend uses them in his garage and they're built extremely well. Would that be a good option, mounting buss bars on each end? Do they sell reasonably priced bases to put each group in, or full enclosures? Or should i build something around them and leave them exposed on the shelves? Sorry I'm throwing a few things out here at once, just wanted to fully explain my setup and give an introduction. Thank you for all and any input!
