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which 400-450 watt panels?

doox00

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Which are recommended panels to go with? I will be starting off with about 14kw of panels. I see KB solar has them that are made in the US, anyone have experience with those, the price seems good. They will be ground mounted if that makes a lot of difference.

Thanks all
 
Agreed with @timselectric. Need to pick an inverter and mppt SCC, or an AIO, then find panels to best match the max VoC spec.
Also note that KB are not made in the USA, they are assembled here with foreign components.
 
Agreed with @timselectric. Need to pick an inverter and mppt SCC, or an AIO, then find panels to best match the max VoC spec.
Also note that KB are not made in the USA, they are assembled here with foreign components.

Yeah I assumed the parts were not made in the US. I was leaning towards the EG4 18K inverter.
 
Yeah I assumed the parts were not made in the US. I was leaning towards the EG4 18K inverter.
If you're just starting out I'd lean a different direction. Do some searches. It's a great piece of hardware that still has lots of development on the firmware / software end. I'm sure it will be great all around someday. Some have great success others not so much.
 
If you're just starting out I'd lean a different direction. Do some searches. It's a great piece of hardware that still has lots of development on the firmware / software end. I'm sure it will be great all around someday. Some have great success others not so much.
I am open to other suggestions, any recommendations? Does the sol-ark 15k do basically the same thing as the eg4 18k?
 
If you go with the 18kPV then the Solarever 455W panels from Signature Solar seem like a good match; you can easily have four strings of 8 with two paralleled on input #1. (Or, if going for a full pallet 3 strings of 8 and one string of 7.)
 
If you go with the 18kPV then the Solarever 455W panels from Signature Solar seem like a good match; you can easily have four strings of 8 with two paralleled on input #1. (Or, if going for a full pallet 3 strings of 8 and one string of 7.)
How do these look, seems similar specs and a bit cheaper and $1 shipping for 32 panels, the 450 watt panels. Would these panels work with most inverters? I have not decided on which inverter yet for sure.

 
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No, you have to find one that shipped before the bs.
I got mine in the marketplace, in this forum.
Has anyone tried freight forwarding via either a buyer in China or country outside of SolArk territory? There are a few split phase countries not in the Americas (which I understand is SolArk’s). China seems unlikely since if they did this, there would be plenty of AliExpress sellers
 
Has anyone tried freight forwarding via either a buyer in China or country outside of SolArk territory? There are a few split phase countries not in the Americas (which I understand is SolArk’s). China seems unlikely since if they did this, there would be plenty of AliExpress sellers
Not an option.
Deye doesn't distribute the split-phase versions to anyone except Sol-Ark. The only way to get them now, per the agreement. Is through Sol-Ark.
 
Any 240V single phase inverter with an appropriate sized autotransformer to provide the netural will be even better, no issues with one phase overloads tripping the inverter offline well below the "rated" output. So you can get a Deye and made your own split-phase.
 
Any 240V single phase inverter with an appropriate sized autotransformer to provide the netural will be even better, no issues with one phase overloads tripping the inverter offline well below the "rated" output. So you can get a Deye and made your own split-phase.
Yup
It's my preferred option for split-phase.
 
How do these look, seems similar specs and a bit cheaper and $1 shipping for 32 panels, the 450 watt panels. Would these panels work with most inverters? I have not decided on which inverter yet for sure.

Comparable, just confirm the temperature coefficient to make sure you don't have a problem with record-low temperatures.
 

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