Busy-B-Ridge
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Disclaimer - I'm every bit of 100% clueless when it comes to PV solar anything as of the moment of this post. Maybe that will change in time, but in the meantime, your patience in dealing with my idiocy is greatly appreciated.
Having given that disclaimer, I'm looking to get my feet wet on putting in some PV solar to reduce our use of power from the grid. I'm not expecting to jump in to the point of eliminating our use of grid supplied power right away, though at some point down the road we may be in a better position to look at doing that. I did get a quote from one of those companies that installs whole-home solar PV grid-tie with battery backup systems but they want over $100k to install theirs which is kind of ridiculously non-economical where we live (TN, USA which basically offers no incentives for going solar). So instead we're considering something like more of a DIY system that would just replace some of power we currently use and wouldn't have any batteries or bells and whistles. It's kind of daunting for someone with zero experience though and I'm getting to a point where I'm really just wondering if there's just a plug-n-play all-in-one kit out there that's reasonably priced and designed for dummies. Or, do I really need to learn what I'm doing first?
I was also looking at these 1000W grid tie inverters on Amazon. Are they really as simple as just wiring ten 100w panels to the inverter and plugging the inverter into a wall-socket or is there a lot more to it than that?
Having given that disclaimer, I'm looking to get my feet wet on putting in some PV solar to reduce our use of power from the grid. I'm not expecting to jump in to the point of eliminating our use of grid supplied power right away, though at some point down the road we may be in a better position to look at doing that. I did get a quote from one of those companies that installs whole-home solar PV grid-tie with battery backup systems but they want over $100k to install theirs which is kind of ridiculously non-economical where we live (TN, USA which basically offers no incentives for going solar). So instead we're considering something like more of a DIY system that would just replace some of power we currently use and wouldn't have any batteries or bells and whistles. It's kind of daunting for someone with zero experience though and I'm getting to a point where I'm really just wondering if there's just a plug-n-play all-in-one kit out there that's reasonably priced and designed for dummies. Or, do I really need to learn what I'm doing first?
I was also looking at these 1000W grid tie inverters on Amazon. Are they really as simple as just wiring ten 100w panels to the inverter and plugging the inverter into a wall-socket or is there a lot more to it than that?