Home Array
This is most of our home and office PV array at
63 feet AGL. The top eight panels are fifteen years old and
still output more than their warranted power rating.
Shop Array
The shop’s panels basking in the sun power all of
our tools including the 5 HP shop vac, ¾ HP drill press, 15 amp
angle head grinder, 1.5 HP table saw, exhaust system, bench
grinder, 13 amp chop saw and many more tools including a 160 amp
MIG welder.
Store Control Center
Here’s the inverter, charge controller, DC
disconnect and related equipment supplying our electrical needs
for the store. For the fun of it, I installed a watt-hour meter
to monitor consumption.
Thompson Street PVs
The rental presented a challenge for mounting the
PVs but we were able to mount 1.8 Kw of PVs atop this home in
Taylorsville. This grid inter-tied system 'net meters' about 8-9
KWhrs back to P.G. & E. on a sunny day. The renter enjoys the
low utility bill every month, and ocassionally this system
generates a monthly credit on the electric bill with the help of
the Xantrex 1500 Suntie inverter!
Sawyer Array
This array is perfectly situated in a zero-shade
location and seasonally adustable. It feeds an SMA Sunny Boy
1800 inverter that, under ideal conditions, has ocassionally
peaked in its power output at significantly over the CEC's PTC
rating of the panels.
Houston Array
The 16, 185 Watt PVs shown here supply an SMA
Sunny Boy 2500 inverter with almost 3 KW at STC. This is a 'new
system on the block', but we've already seen days totalling
16.45 KWhrs with 'time-of-use' metering.
5.0 KW peak grid intertie system
This system is capable of spinning your electric
meter backwards at a rate of about 23~26 KWhrs per day. These
systems produce a significant amount of power even on moderately
cloudy days.
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