The Greg's Grid Tie Solar Project

[Gregski]

Not quite sure about your efficiency figure. What went it and what went out?


You did what?

in some American homes you can use natural gas instead of 240 volt 30 amp electricity in your clothes dryer machine, the gas clothes dryers only use standard/regular 110v 15 amp power freeing up the big 240 volt plug/circuit

allow me to insult your intelligence with this video:

[robertwa]

Gas powered dryer

[Gregski]

so it's been a while since I posted an update, here I am in my new house, yes I moved again, to what appears to be the world's least solar panel friendly domicile, so here I was doing the best I could

here they are facing South but this side of the house gets so much shade that this really sucked !

[Gregski]

anyway here I am not bending a knee to the HOA, those of you blessed enuff to not be familiar with the Home Owners Association may not get what I am trying to say here, lucky you

as you can see I have now graduated to these blue grid tie inverters, this one is a 45-90 dc voltage input

here we are in the Fall (November) with the panels facing South

so here we have six 200 watt solar panels for a total of 1,200 watts pulling in 860 watts of solarness, so approximately (860/1200=71.6) so 70% efficiency? they are connected in pairs so panel 1 + panel 2, panel 3 + panel 4, and panel 5 + panel 6 so the input voltage is just above 70 volts, well within the 45-90 range of that inverter

so this setup counting everything including cables is less than $1,500 bucks

[MattsAwesomeStuff]

those of you blessed enuff to not be familiar with the Home Owners Association may not get what I am trying to say here, lucky you

An HOA community is perfect for the type of people who want all the expenses, responsibilities, uncertainties and liabilities of owning a home, but who miss the restrictiveness of only being a renter!

Every HOA is staffed by people who's passion in life is being a know-it-all busybody, who've now been given authority over their neighbors. It is the final evolution of the Karen. Her most powerful form.

And because these people have no interests in their life other than gossip and bossing people around, the rules they create for others to follow involve the only acceptable activity of providing them gossip. You can't have a hobby, it'll be banned. You can't be creative, it'll be banned. You can't make your own decisions, they'll be banned. The rules also apply to them, but again, they don't have hobbies or interests or individuality that could be affected by them, it's why they're on the HOA.

The only way any HOA member could actually make the world a better place is if they themselves fell into a woodchipper. I would happily fertilize the greenspace with their minced corpses so they can forever enjoy their afterlife doing the things they love most: measuring the grass and being full of shit.

3 kinds of HOA members:

1 - Powertripping busybodies, as above.

2 - Lonely people who don't do anything and serve no purpose. They avoid arguments and controversy and thus always vote to agree with the loudest voices in the room.

3 - People who don't want the job but want someone sane in the room to keep the other two types out and just maintain the infrastructure.

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I'm on an HOA. Never... again. I'd rather live in the ghetto.

So I bought a house in the ghetto. It's everything I dreamed it could be.