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<blockquote data-quote="doctorjj" data-source="post: 2000214" data-attributes="member: 7292"><p>I looked into it a couple of years ago. A couple of factors kept me from diving in. First, electricity is so reliable and so cheap where I live. I have some of the cheapest electricity in the country. The cost of solar at the time was also higher. Those two factors make me hold off on buying a system. The only quote I got, from a local solar company was way out of whack with reality. The price of solar panels has come way down recently as well. There is a glut of panels on the market currently. Your best bet is to design and purchase the system yourself and have a competent eletrician install it. The Xantrex XW 6048, stacking up to 3 of them together as you need, is a good component to build it all around. It has the capability of using wind and/or solar as well as a battery backup, and a generator and tie it into the grid. </p><p></p><p>My current plan which I'm going to pull the trigger on shortly is to go with 3 xantrex xw 6048's, stacked, and a full battery backup. The next step would be to add a generator. The best part of this, is that you can buy a much smaller generator that doesn't have to run all the time. If you want a whole home generator, you'll have to calculate the potential loads that could all be on at once. This forces you to buy a much bigger generator than needed. And then it has to run any time you want power. With the invertors and batteries, it will switch instanteously, without any loss of power to your house, to the battery bank. As they drain down, it will kick the generator on and off as needed to keep the batteries full. When the grid power is restored, the invertor switches back to using the grid power.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorjj, post: 2000214, member: 7292"] I looked into it a couple of years ago. A couple of factors kept me from diving in. First, electricity is so reliable and so cheap where I live. I have some of the cheapest electricity in the country. The cost of solar at the time was also higher. Those two factors make me hold off on buying a system. The only quote I got, from a local solar company was way out of whack with reality. The price of solar panels has come way down recently as well. There is a glut of panels on the market currently. Your best bet is to design and purchase the system yourself and have a competent eletrician install it. The Xantrex XW 6048, stacking up to 3 of them together as you need, is a good component to build it all around. It has the capability of using wind and/or solar as well as a battery backup, and a generator and tie it into the grid. My current plan which I'm going to pull the trigger on shortly is to go with 3 xantrex xw 6048's, stacked, and a full battery backup. The next step would be to add a generator. The best part of this, is that you can buy a much smaller generator that doesn't have to run all the time. If you want a whole home generator, you'll have to calculate the potential loads that could all be on at once. This forces you to buy a much bigger generator than needed. And then it has to run any time you want power. With the invertors and batteries, it will switch instanteously, without any loss of power to your house, to the battery bank. As they drain down, it will kick the generator on and off as needed to keep the batteries full. When the grid power is restored, the invertor switches back to using the grid power. [/QUOTE]
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