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aFicIoNadoS (view profile)

Posted 7:22 pm, 06/01/2016

Shut up Springy, you obviously don't know crap about this topic. Anti, prices haven't dropped really, product had gotten better/more efficient. But last time I looked, there were only a couple inverters that were really any good (I think both were German companies) and they were a few thousand dollars themselves. That's why I'm skeptical of a $10,000 system. To really make solar viable in the home, we need to change the home infrastructure to include low voltage DC wiring so that we could eliminate power drains like power supplies for things like computers and cellphones

If your $55K system has to worry about a PC of Cell phone draining it, that is one piss poor system. LOL

Instead of tax credits for solar panels what about a good used moped?

As if you people on mopeds pay taxes

My moped has saved more energy than all the solar panels in Wilkes combined, yet the government makes us pay for rich people to put them on their roofs. Their roofs then start leaking which they file an insurance claim on and the poor end up paying for that also. There has to be a lot of lead in the drinking water.

If you want to save some money on your power bill, don't leave every light in the house on all day and don't try to heat your home with a heat pump in the dead of winter.

Electricity at current prices is a huge bargain. You would have to be a genuine tard to start spending thousands and thousands of dollars on panels and batteries and converters and switches and electricians...

Shut up Springy, you obviously don't know crap about this topic.

Anti, prices haven't dropped really, product had gotten better/more efficient. But last time I looked, there were only a couple inverters that were really any good (I think both were German companies) and they were a few thousand dollars themselves. That's why I'm skeptical of a $10,000 system.

To really make solar viable in the home, we need to change the home infrastructure to include low voltage DC wiring so that we could eliminate power drains like power supplies for things like computers and cellphones

A 2000 sq system would be one hello of a system. A 400 watt panel is about 3 foot by 8 foot. About 580 sq feet of panels is enough to supply a home. A standard home anyway.

There's no way $10,000 would make your house independent. It would allow you to sell some back to Duke some times. The new tesla batteries which made big advancements in price and storage would cost at least that much alone.

Well, yeah, that's what I said. The price tag included a dual inverter so that I would have a backup for weak days, but I would have enough electricity to sell back on strong days that it would have (hopefully) offset.

That was about 3 years ago, though, so it could all be different now. I don't know what size the panels were going to be but the plan was to cover the half of my roof that faces the sun. My house is roughly 40x100 feet, which is about 4,000 square feet of space, so that's 2,000 square feet of solar panels.

Your standard answer when you've been beaten

Whatever

No you can't, Stupid. Give it up, you've already been schooled on this subject. double that price and you can start getting into systems that can supply your home maybe half of the time and sell some power back to the power company at select times.

Tractor Supply in Wilkes has 1500 watt inverts for about $100 each. They have a 3000 watt invert system for about $300.00. Then Wal mart has 12 DC 225 wh batteries for about $100 each. You won't need more then 10 of them. You can get 400 watt wh panels for about $400 each. You won't need more then 20 of them. You can even cut down on this if your house has a gas stove, gas heat and a gas water heater.

I am sure if you picked he units you could build a home system that could cost $100,000.00 but if you pick the best items for the money, you can have a system for less then $10K. Just as good as the $100K system.

aFicIoNadoS (view profile)	Posted 2:32 pm, 06/01/2016
There's no way $10,000 would make your house independent. It would allow you to sell some back to Duke some times. The new tesla batteries which made big advancements in price and storage would cost at least that much alone.

Stop being an idiot. That is actually a reasonable price for a home system.

There's no way $10,000 would make your house independent. It would allow you to sell some back to Duke some times. The new tesla batteries which made big advancements in price and storage would cost at least that much alone.

Now antithesis you already have an A in this class. To get the A+ all you have to do is total the cost of your 1,000 sq. ft system and lets forget the labor and only use the cost of the main materials. Pick your invertor, storage batteries, solar panels and charge controller and let's see the total cost.

I checked my recent electric bill, and it was cheaper at $180. The $280 was in March, so I guess the difference was heat vs. AC.

This month I used about 1500kWh, so I'll still be over the average. But do we want to talk about my house or averages to move the entire US to alternative fuels? Because that's what I think the OP was about.

I had solar priced for my house about 3 years ago, and the estimate was just over $10,000 for everything, installed. That included a dual inverter (?) so that I would have a backup for weak days, but I would have enough electricity to sell back on strong days that it would have (hopefully) offset.

aFicIoNadoS	Posted 12:45 pm, 06/01/2016
Ah, come on Springy, tell us again how much power the average home uses in a day. Show everyone what an ignorant fool you are.

Go back to your dolls, sweetie.

Ah, come on Springy, tell us again how much power the average home uses in a day. Show everyone what an ignorant fool you are.

Go back to your dolls.