Recent content by Subestile

I am changing my battery storage from the tesla powerwall 2 that came with my system and adding to the ruixu battery storage I installed with the solark assuming I can figure this out. SRP has a DER storage meter which per the DER rep at SRP only sees if the system is charging or discharging...

the panels will be angled. slightly for run off on an individual bases and slightly angled away from the house. I think im going to do a metal subroof under it for full shade and to hide wiring. we get monsoons that can have pretty high gusts in the 60s+ but not continuous high winds. Ill attach...

Thanks for that, mine will be 100% flat mount, do you think your conclusion of 7cf per panel is necessary for that?

Wall is non structural. basically a block fence that divides the properties but it would not be incorporated into the structure. may go with 4 posts and do the foundation connected between them like 48"x12x24d. I already have an auger drill that I used for my pergola foundations but that was 12...

Thanks for that feedback, I really want to avoid doing 4 posts if possible just for the spacing in the area as under it I want to build an outdoor kitchen area underneath it, its going to go in this area next to the pool equipment along the wall towards the house. an extra post would make that...

weight of the panels is sub 50 lbs each 41x69. we dont get much in the way of adverse weather but we do get monsoons that can give some fairly strong winds occasionallly. would use 4x4x0.25 wall tubing, 24" concrete footings 10" diameter is what I was considering.

I am looking to finalize the last 10 panels that are to be added to my system. was considering building a T post style structure to support the remaining 10 panels. Was considering 4x4 steel uprights and an I-beam square box up top to mount the rails to. has anyone built something similar I am...

Thanks for all the help, system is up and running, peak production I have seen is in the 17-19kw production (I have east and west facing panels so we will see what summer holds) first bill after getting the system completely active and running properly was negative was only active for 3 weeks of...

this is resolved, the tesla still does not like working as a slave system, its working as well as it can be currently but when doing time of use it just dumps until empty even if its just selling back to the grid and not using the power for the house as desired. It will be replaced with...

7.4kw on the enphase system, it has to be ac coupled only way it can go into the solark is through the load or gen inputs. generator is what is recommended by solark as it can monitor volume of input from that where it can not from the load input.

dont believe the enphase/tesla gateway system has that sort of capabilities and I would lose most of the features of the solark by doing so even if it would be possible.

I didnt just add a solark. I also added 30kw of ruixu batteries and 19.2kw additional pannels. Originally I was going to stay all micro inverters but it would have required me to do a lot more changes to the original system than I wanted to. Unfortunately that choice has come with other consequences

finally got my solark 15k system up and running. my previous enphase system with tesla battery is running through the AC coupled side and its REALLY not happy to be there. the tesla gateway 2 thinks its offgrid (confirmed with Solark this is a known issue and no fix available) and those solar...

no, and it is not liking being ac coupled the tesla battery thinks the grid is down and as such disables the solar panels connected to it.... its been frustrating at best. either going to hook it up to the main pannel and run two separate systems or sell the tesla battery and just put my enphase...