You know how it is. Your original intention was to see if this solar stuff actually works. So you pick up a solar panel or two and prop them in the sun. A voltage reading tells you they are doing something so you hook up a SCC and a battery and all of a sudden nothing happens. Oh yeah the battery is charged and you need a load. You could power a DC item but what you really want is to get that good ol' AC juice, that real stuff in your house runs on.
Next up comes an inverter to take that solar produced power and have AC available. So you look about for whatever seems to have big numbers and is cheap. 12vDC 5000w looks great. After getting it all hooked up you now have some AC to power stuff. But wait it does not seem to work right. The battery goes dead in a short while. Need more battery if you are going to run things. Unfortunately your solar panels can't keep the larger capacity battery charged so that means more panels. More panels necessitate a new SCC or mulitple SCC's.
Panels propped up off the porch are rather flimsy so some form of better mounts are needed. While at it maybe this solar stuff could power a few more loads if you add some more panels. More panels and higher voltage batteries would allow a better inverter or an AIO. More house loads can be supplied now. You start thinking "Hey, if I can power all this maybe I can go Off grid?"
After a few more iterations, with your bank account getting dangerously low, you suddenly realized you have suffered from mission creep.
Next up comes an inverter to take that solar produced power and have AC available. So you look about for whatever seems to have big numbers and is cheap. 12vDC 5000w looks great. After getting it all hooked up you now have some AC to power stuff. But wait it does not seem to work right. The battery goes dead in a short while. Need more battery if you are going to run things. Unfortunately your solar panels can't keep the larger capacity battery charged so that means more panels. More panels necessitate a new SCC or mulitple SCC's.
Panels propped up off the porch are rather flimsy so some form of better mounts are needed. While at it maybe this solar stuff could power a few more loads if you add some more panels. More panels and higher voltage batteries would allow a better inverter or an AIO. More house loads can be supplied now. You start thinking "Hey, if I can power all this maybe I can go Off grid?"
After a few more iterations, with your bank account getting dangerously low, you suddenly realized you have suffered from mission creep.