Smart guys, SOLAR

[Sidekick]

It's that ~$9,000 in controllers and such?

Only $2500 for the xp12000. The rest were what I started with for backups. $9k of batteries if I bought them all though. It's a fun learning experience and so far I have survived.

 

[Vlach7]

I did solar four years ago, 8 1/4 kW system, cost me 14,000 after the federal rebate, put it in myself, so it was much cheaper, very simple like Lego bricks just putting it together bolts and running wire tubing and wire, my workshop just happened to be southern facing on one side for a perfect angle, when people ask me, should they go off grid? I say definitely not because it’s a free piggy bank for me to put my energy into that I don’t use and then I can use it during the winter time to heat the house and use more than I make in the winter. . I only use about half of it, they used to give me 5 1/2 cents a kilowatt for all the extra now it’s like 1 1/2 cents so it’s better for me to just run electric heaters in the house During winter because I do not use much AC in the summertime. Mine should be paid off in two more years. It would’ve been sooner if they didn’t change the payouts that they gave me, I was getting $450 a year for my surplus and now they give me like 50 bucks so better for me to burn it on electric heaters, I love my system. It’s maintenance free and someday who knows I could end up with an electric vehicle which I would use all the rest that I make.

 

[JRHill]

I did solar four years ago, 8 1/4 kW system, cost me 14,000 after the federal rebate, put it in myself, so it was much cheaper, very simple like Lego bricks just putting it together bolts and running wire tubing and wire, my workshop just happened to be southern facing on one side for a perfect angle, when people ask me, should they go off grid? I say definitely not because it’s a free piggy bank for me to put my energy into that I don’t use and then I can use it during the winter time to heat the house and use more than I make in the winter. . I only use about half of it, they used to give me 5 1/2 cents a kilowatt for all the extra now it’s like 1 1/2 cents so it’s better for me to just run electric heaters in the house During winter because I do not use much AC in the summertime. Mine should be paid off in two more years. It would’ve been sooner if they didn’t change the payouts that they gave me, I was getting $450 a year for my surplus and now they give me like 50 bucks so better for me to burn it on electric heaters, I love my system. It’s maintenance free and someday who knows I could end up with an electric vehicle which I would use all the rest that I make.

How's all that work for you when the grid fails, surges or browns out?