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Question for people who have installed solar in a property that's used by other people: Is it easy to manage and perform basic troubleshooting? A cousin proudl
by ilamont 4y ago
Question for people who have installed solar in a property that's used by other people: Is it easy to manage and perform basic troubleshooting?
A cousin proudly showed me her solar setup at a vacation home including the app showing her electricity savings and the various hardware components and all I could think of was the things that can go wrong at our own property when I am not around and my parents, kids, or siblings are using it.
After serving as my extended family's "IT support" for decades and dealing with a neverending stream of headaches relating to wifi, printers, Nest, unresponsive PCs, TV settings, car apps, and so on, I'm wary of installing a major system that requires someone to be basically on call to deal with minor problems or major outages as described in TFA.
- solardev 4y agoFor what it's worth, most solar installations aren't offgrid. They work alongside the regular grid so if the solar system (or a part of it) goes down, the house would still keep getting regular grid electricity.