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Yeah, we paid more for the little bits of metal that held up the panels than for the panels themselves (aluminum, but still).
by ericd 1y ago
Yeah, we paid more for the little bits of metal that held up the panels than for the panels themselves (aluminum, but still).
- dzhiurgis 1y agoIDK sounds like you got ripped off. I diy'd and panels were cheap of course, but fittings were perhaps 3-5x cheaper. Inverter is typically same as your panels (hybrid, grid-tied are quite a bit cheaper).
- namibj 1y agoFor all of your context/reference, if you buy whole pallets from a central European port warehouse, glass-glass modules run around $0.11/Wp plus shipping. Unless you're just bolting them to the floor or to an uninsulated wall, mounting will (sadly) run you a sizable fraction of that cost in the best case.
- ericd 1y agoMaybe, but these aren’t fittings, they’re ground mounts with large screws that screw into the ground to hold the entire array down, including under high wind (and have to come with PE stamped system-level engineering drawings talking about things like rated wind load of the whole array to pass building inspections). But yeah, at the end of the day, just bent bars of aluminum with ground screws and bolts to hold the corners of the panels, versus the technological marvels of the solar panels they hold.