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sitting in the middle of the 4th power outage in 7 days, with this power company ED3 who couldn't find their own axes even though their heads are at full insertion, a large part of pinal county is down, because they didnt plan in any redundancy. mismanagement at its finest.

Getting ready for a business trip, but thought i would drop these items here so discussion can flow for when i get back, i was looking at using this as the panel the sol-ark would feed power to, and to make the house branch off from. Why so big? because every damn breaker box on the property...

If I can get the system functioning, then i can monkey with replacing panels, etc, if they were sitting in a pile on the ground, maybe, but they are all already mounted up on the structure. I will be able to de-activate a set at the combiner box and even replace them as needed a section at a...

just filling in some missing information, been sick today, thinking i got some bad food, so haven't gotten much of anything accomplished but i went out and inspected the main box more deeply. Center double breaker says 200A on it, the breaker appears to be all one piece with one big arm, rather...

I think you mis-understood, im talking about getting 2 of the 4-1s because i cant find a 2-1s or 4-2s with everything plug and play and simple. That would give me 8 total inputs, but i only intend to use 2 inputs on each one. And I know the fuses are built into the combiner, but some have 10A...

i was kinda hoping to keep the DC side simple, and plug and play as possible, is there a downfall to using the 4 string combiner box that has the shutoff and all that inside it, and just capping off two of its inputs, using it as a 2 - 1 essentially, and giving each of the sets of 24 panels its...

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all panels are identical, and yes i know the vinyl is cracking on them, here in arizona we are a very dry climate thankfully, but i also plan to go through and put sealer on them, they are used panels, i paid 20 bucks a piece, the faces have no spider webing, no de-lamination, no air pockets or...

@glandpuck @Ampster @Nobodybusiness I just ordered more unistrut to extend the existing track on the side of the shop, 6 x 4 ft lengths, i have other uses for it if i have some left over, and if someone wants to recommend the exact items from Amazon or elsewhere, I plan to order the combiner...

We then used L brackets to mount the panels to the framework, the brackets are self tapping screwed into the 4 inch steel using #8x3/4 screws, Each solar panel has 4 L brackets roughly in each corner, except for the panels which hang over the ends slightly, on those ones they are set back where...

Everything was made from the same 4x4 inch square steel tubing, no other materials were used, posts, cross beams, it is all the same 4x4 steel. better image to show how the first later is on top of the posts, then the 2nd layer is on top of that, and its all welded

Steel, not aluminum, all 6 posts are concreted in, we have already had 60 mph winds since this was setup, as because we are in a mountain pass, during storms the wind comes between the hills with gusto, the structure was built with this in mind. The structure is 20x40, so every post is +/- 20...

My thought was, if the 15K will take it, i could add more panels on a second awning later on, as i still have some of that steel tubing left over, possibly enough for an identical clone of the first one. @glandpuck My definition of awning is a structure that will withstand a tornado and only...

Yes, its a 4 inch square tubing rectangular frame

hopefully, but i may be counting on all of you to tell me what all gear, down to exact items, i need to buy to make this work. When i said i live on the far end of nowhere, this is what i meant...

The shadow you see that appears inside or under the outline of the Solar Array is actually the stack of square tubing that became the awning, google maps has not rescanned the area since the awning was actually erected and welded togeather, just in case there was a question what that...

The point is i don't want to sign their stupid net metering BS, when you do the price per KW jumps up to like $2.50, their headquarters got burned to the ground years back, with the slimy crap they pull, i am not surprised it happened. They are welcome to do a safety inspection, but if they try...

I tried that route once or twice, but the guys i found knew nothing about solar some how... If anyone reading this is within driving range, the offer stands, the project is in 85139.

EXACTLY! I really wish there was someone i could just pay to come out and help me with this, literally every solar company i talk to, wants to rip me for 30,000, or wants me to pay them for the solar power as a pseudo power company, what happened to the days of finding an electrician who knows...

that would definitely be the goal. Priorities are: 1. Have backup power because we are super rural, and it takes a few hours just to get boots on the ground to start fixing stuff during an outage. 2. Reduce the power bill, but without feeding back into the grid, as that requires being...

So then another question, Suppose i put in the 15K Sol Ark, with the grid connected to it, but setup NOT to push power back to the grid, just run myself on the solar power, and use grid only when Solar is insufficient. If the A/C, & the well pump decide to kick in at the same time, while...

right but doesn't that mean i need to re-route the feeds to the shop, and the well, into a different breaker box?

Background: We got started with a now known to be fly-by-night solar company that has since gone out of business, we have 48 x 240w panels mounted on a vehicle awning which is 15 feet from the house, and 5 ft from the shop, none of them are wired to anything, cables are just swinging in the...