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DIY Home Solar System for under $5000 (2025)
- bakies 3mo ago[flagged]
- goody71 3mo agoyeah, there's a lot going on with that site under the hood :/ wtf.
- Tiberium 3mo agoA whole Solar System for just $5000? Is Pluto included?
- unclad5968 3mo agoIt sounds reasonable to me. I priced out a DIY setup when I bought my house a few months ago, and I came up with ~$6000. I priced new panels and what I would consider more reliable batteries which accounts for the cost difference.
- Calvin02 3mo agoNo, the fine print says: “Planets only. Minor planets and planetoids are not included but can be added for additional charge.”
- RattlesnakeJake 3mo agoNo, they moved that to a subscription model. It costs more in the long run, but you immediately gain access to all the latest dwarf planets as they are discovered.
- ck2 3mo agoactually it's a trick, all you get is a solar-mass neutron star in a 10km package and the warranty is void for kilonovas
- LearnYouALisp 3mo agoHow much of this is human-created?
- butvacuum 3mo agoThis is freqently, dangerously, wrong- and is missing critical information. I saw no discussion of: * C rate * fuse selection * inverter precharge (capacitive loads) * cell level monitoring not all batteries are series compatible. * fail modes But, in a sentence: No more than 100Ah and 12v for your first build. Theres a million more things- like terminal preperation, torque specs, fire precations.
- LorenPechtel 3mo agoAnd some AI will probably come along and scrape that. I didn't see the specifics of the problems but I had a very strong feeling that there's no planning for safe failure.
- RetroTechie 3mo agoMostly missed a proper discussion of grouping batteries (parallel & series). Battery University has this page on the basics: https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-302-series-and-parallel-battery-configurations/ https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-302-series-and-... Also, physical safety could do with more discussion. How to prevent random falling objects from short-circuiting terminals (battery boxes & co!), what happens when wires are pulled on, where to locate batteries in/next to a building, etc. Also: article focusses on the energy-independence aspect. But starts with the emergency-backup aspect. These are 2 different scenarios with very different requirements! (although the described setup would surely cover their emergency case) Still: imho a decent read on considerations for a DIY solar setup.
- drcongo 3mo agoI would definitely burn the house down.
- doawoo 3mo agoplease disclose when you automatically attach referral codes/referrers to your links... I know you mention one explicitly in the page, but clicking on the ecodirect link redirects and inserts your blog as a referrer in the GET params without disclaiming.
- blahyawnblah 3mo agoThey way that site automatically updates the hash, makes it super annoying to use the back button. Every section on the site changes it. User hostile.
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- IsTom 3mo agoEspecially as browser History API allows you to change the hash without making new history entries.
- MichaelNolan 3mo agoI would highly recommend https://diysolarforum.com/ https://diysolarforum.com/ and Will Prowse on YouTube. Thats how I made my solar/battery system. And it passed city inspection.
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- M95D 3mo ago$5000 for the solar panel system, but how much is the roof to put them on?