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)

  • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Has anyone installed solar panels? What has been your experience?

    Sounds like you are talking about grid-tied systems, but folks who live in vehicles often DIY and make most of their power from solar.

    In my case, I have 750w mounted on the campervan. Depending on how I am camping solar makes 90-95% of the power with the alternator contributing the rest during reprovision/relocation runs. Over the past ~5 years I’ve averaged 1.76kWh/day. In the last six months I’ve been doing more electric cooking and so production numbers have been 2.16kWh/day