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Has anyone installed solar panels? What has been your experience? DIY install extra appreciated. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by Miczech@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Thinking of self installing a 5kW solution onto a South facing garage. DIY solution appears to be 60% cheaper than hiring a local installer (Ohio)

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for this extensive reply. Not the OP, but I've been slowly doing my research on this, and this gave me a good base of things to look into. Cheers!

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

An example of of "grid-interactive" system is the ecoflow smart home panel. It's the front runner I'm looking at right now for my own system. It will dynamically balance where power is coming from based on your batteries/solar/grid state. Easy to expand battery packs, and ties directly into up to 10 circuits.