Recent content by Cowdog360

I’d be surprised if Portland doesn’t ban gas stoves and ovens by that time lol. You know I was looking at the GE heat pump wash and dryer and realizing that might have a better ROI than solar lol. Using like 100-200W vs 5000W.

At least in Portland with PGE though, you can switch to a time of use program and the solar ROI can be under 6 years for a grid tied system. In Vancouver, WA our power is under 9 cents/kwh, no TOU option, so there just isn’t ROI on anything unless you DIY it. I mean there it, but it’s like 15-25...

Yeah, it pretty much makes me want to build a “solar shed” in the backyard so that it’s basically a ground-mount with storage, and I don’t have to mess with all that stuff. Although to net-meter gotta get permits.

Interesting setup. Those Hyperion panels almost look square in the pictures, are they truly 66 x 45” ? I’m still trying to figure out a similar setup and what I want to do. I’m really wanting DIY to keep the costs down, but for the life of me can’t get anyone to tell me how close my panels can...

Yeah, the more I think about things here with how long the payback is for any system, I’ll probably design it more as a whole house UPS that can run a bank of critical loads for a few hours during an outage, as they typically are infrequent and don’t last long. But it would be nice basically to...

No worries, maybe I’ll just buy the 10 pack as well and just do the same thing if there’s good demand for the panels.

Thanks, that’s all very helpful. How do you move your critical loads of of the main panel into a new panel, do you have to pull the wires out of the old panel and drop them into the new one? Or do people just extend the wires from their old panel into the new one? Luckily my garage over the...

Hey all, I'm in Washington state, and our electricity is super cheap at 8.7cents/kwh. So any solar system that I want to do with a less than 15 year payback pretty much has to be DIY. What I was hoping to do is have a system that can have a few batteries to act as a whole house UPS, and offset...

Wouldn't the downside of the topspeed mounts be the sheer number of holes in the roof? If you're talking 3 per mount vs a single on the mini rails. That would be my concern in terms of water leakage in a rainy environment.

I'm up in Vancouver, WA, and I might be interested in these. I'm thinking of just trying out some solar on my house and haven't really decided which way to go, but I was thinking about these exact panels!