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Very nice indeed. I could also power my entire house off of that and I'm even using an electric water heater!
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on a side note my net meter got installed while i was away working. so now i can sell electricity back to the grid i cant wait to see my first power bill with this system on
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as am i for the time being i plan on ditching that for solar thermal really soon.
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If you haven't already start one of those My energy use tracking threads for your home. I'm very curious how this works out power wise.
Also if you don't mind asking roughly what did the system cost you? With Panels getting so cheap these days I'm assuming the majority of the cost is in the other components or installation? |
05-17-12, 07:07 PM | #35 |
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panels $4600
batteries $2300 inverter $1600 charge controller $580 combiner box for array $90 outback lightning arestor breakers and box that mounts on inverter $500 miscellaneous parts $190.27 2'' waterpipe $200 total$10060.27 FREE stuff my boss gave me as a bonus for working hard racking mounting hardware all wire grounding hardware most of the conduit inverter charge controller combiner box 2KW of panels my cost after free stuff was $5500
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Great looking system, Rhino! What is the radiator and fan between the seats of your utility vehicle for?
I had originally planed on 120 tubes worth of thermal collector trying to get the best bang for the buck of my roof space. I'm scaling that down now and adding a hacked GSHP to leave room for PV. Thanks for the inspiration! Craig |
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thats the cooling system for the Yamaha rhino 660 i moved it there because i ride alot of mud and it was overheating alot in the stock location when the mud covered it
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cool man check out my geothermal thread also
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i got my first power bill with the system on it was $32.74 next is the solar water heater
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Do you know how much power you generated in the same month?
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