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May 31, 2015 15:35:01 GMT
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I built this solar array myself using 7 x 245 watt sharp solar panels from ebay. They were quite cheap as they were from a builders overstock of panels. Panels are always getting cheaper though so they are poss an even better price now.
I welded up the steel galz frames myself and can adjust them, every couple of months, to catch the most solar radiation. They make up to about 10kw on a bright day and turn my electricity clock backwards. I have an inverter calley an SMA sunny boy and this directly changes the DC voltage from the panels to AC voltage of the grid. No batteries are needed.
Help how do i insert images
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Ray Singh
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May 31, 2015 17:16:00 GMT
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Fantastic! I would love to see pictures, I would love to construct something like this for my own house. To insert pictures, upload images to photobucket or similar and then use the ![]() [/img] to insert. R |
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May 31, 2015 18:12:24 GMT
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Finding so many people who are buying our Mitsubishi phev are having solar panels installed to charge the vehicle from
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May 31, 2015 19:28:19 GMT
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Was it a pain to get the connections sorted and signed off so it doesnt try and feed the grid when the power goes off? What tariff did you end up getting for power you generate?
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I actually live in Crete although i'm English. My wife and I swapped 18 years of future mortgage payments for a fully paid up 2 bed room villa near the sea.
I built the solar all myself but couldn't get it legally installed with the elec co. paying me a tariff as there was a small quota of licences and only people in the know got one. I actually have a SMA sunny island and batteries so I could go off grid but this way, turning the meter is better 4 me financially at the moment.
With the sunny boy inverter it is very clever and monitors the grid and then when sinked in it joins it. The house uses the power generated and if there is any left over it goes to the grid. If it sees there is no grid voltage or the voltage falls too low it will just shut down to protect the grid.
[http://s592.photobucket.com/user/sunbuilder1crete/media/solar%20array_zpszux0ecwy.jpg.html/img]
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you can see the sunny boy inverter, in the pic, its the red and white box and its just directly wired to the house fuse box. It is rated at 1700 watts. I used some real thick wire that i scrounged for free to lessen the resistance in the cable.
I have another small inverter about only 500 w that works in a similar way that I want to connect to a small wind turbine net.
I have bought nearly everything off ebay second hand or reduced and build everything myself.
I am going to show my car 2 the forum next.
Its a 1972 opel gt with a 2.2 engine with 2.4 head fast road cam running on megasquirt. I just need to take some pics first.
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