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I also ensured I received Jenko panels with a solaX converter.

The mentioned above I was recommended by numerous people who had undertaken plenty of home work.

I don't have the details of the panels, inverter and battery in front of me but basically 22 panels, 6.6kW with battery $15,000.

I'll post some more details tomorrow.

Another year has passed, better technology yadda yadda. Looking at pulling the trigger for our short term rental holiday home down Port Noarlunga South. Probably looking at standard size and also thoughts on batteries? Being a holiday rental we'd expect tenants to be out most of the day but home at night and always having the air conditioner cranking, so battery may be a good idea.

Anyone have any good ideas or seen good deals out in the new year?

I finally took the plunge once I'd moved into a house not surrounded by a forest of Stringy Barks:

- 28 Sunpower (flexible) panels - nominally 9.1kW, (mains are 3-phase)
- Fronius Inverter which reports production via a website to my phone and/or my laptop.
- Battery ready - all quoters said wait for battery technology to improve further before fitting one. (Given we use a combustion heater in the winter nights, and tend to be home by day.)

Operational since midday February 6th.
Nominally by app I've saved 285 kg of CO2, eqivalent to 7 trees or driving a car 1898km, and earned $96.55 from feed ins by today.

Output has been fluctuating depending on cloud cover but highest transient production rate figure I've noticed so far was 8.28kW.

Booney wrote:I don't have the details of the panels, inverter and battery in front of me but basically 22 panels, 6.6kW with battery $15,000.

I'll post some more details tomorrow.

Hey Boon, are you happy with your solar? How much did the battery cost?

Im thinking its time to pull* the trigger myself on solar.

Dutchy wrote:

Booney wrote:I don't have the details of the panels, inverter and battery in front of me but basically 22 panels, 6.6kW with battery $15,000.

I'll post some more details tomorrow.

Hey Boon, are you happy with your solar? How much did the battery cost?

Im thinking its time to pull* the trigger myself on solar.

That was only the quote I got, we didn't go ahead with it at the time, but I do have an appointment this weekend, well, two on Saturday actually, I'll be pulling* the trigger myself in the next few weeks.

Dutchy wrote:Im thinking its time to pull* the trigger myself on solar.

FWIW we had 34 Canadien panels (10.2 kW) and 8.2 kW Fronius inverter $8,250. No battery.
As we had an existing system, for the remainder of the first bill period, we still received the 58c feed in tariff we were on.
Went from $1K bill to $1K in credit. Doubtless there will be a huge correction on next bill as feed in is now at 11c.
Fronius software is very good, live output monitoring etc.

Booney wrote:

Dutchy wrote:

Booney wrote:I don't have the details of the panels, inverter and battery in front of me but basically 22 panels, 6.6kW with battery $15,000.

I'll post some more details tomorrow.

Hey Boon, are you happy with your solar? How much did the battery cost?

Im thinking its time to pull* the trigger myself on solar.

That was only the quote I got, we didn't go ahead with it at the time, but I do have an appointment this weekend, well, two on Saturday actually, I'll be pulling* the trigger myself in the next few weeks.

Bloody hell its been a long day!

Did you guys end up going ahead with your install?
I'm thinking about getting a 3kw system as we're low energy users.

Ours goes in on Wednesday next week

Dutchy wrote:Ours goes in on Wednesday next week

Which system did you buy?

Spangas wrote:

Dutchy wrote:Ours goes in on Wednesday next week

Which system did you buy?

All done, took 2 days to install. I will look up the exact specs and post them here shortly, they also took some drone photo's which Ill post once I see them.

At the moment Im totally obsessed with my new Tesla app

Ours should be going up in the next week

dont know what you guys have been waiting for, had a 4kw system installed back in jan 2014 and it has paid for itself over and over

How good is it when the meter spins backwards!!!

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Our has been in for a month now, this is our system -

System Size: 6.5kw
Inverter: Solaredge HD Wave 5.0
Panels: REC - 325w
Battery: Tesla Powerwall 2

The Tesla app is very cool, to be able to see and manage your power usage is excellent, in 4 weeks so far we have achieved 51% self powered which I think is good considering its Winter and we have had some shitty weather.

6.6kw
Fronius primo inverter 5kw
20 Jinko cheetah monocrystaline panels
Battery may be added later....


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What solar plan does everyone have??

Its a ******* nightmare going thru it all to compare

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2pm, new record for our battery to be 100% charged.