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Anyone here done this? Either with Brightsaver or another balcony solar system? What was your experience if so?
by mooreds 3mo ago
Anyone here done this? Either with Brightsaver or another balcony solar system?
What was your experience if so?
- jaysolarman 3mo agoI went with On Denmand Instant Solar. They ship very fast and have great customer service.
- jaysolarman 3mo agoI went with On demand Instant Solar. They are great and ship very fast,. The customer support is awesome.
- Spunkie 3mo agoI “installed” two APsystems EZ1-LV-NA microinverters at my house in Guatemala this year. It’s easy here because there is effectively zero regulation or monitoring by the power companies. It was stupidly simple. I laid four giant ~700 W panels flat on my upstairs patio, plugged the MC4 extension cables into the microinverters, and plugged the microinverter into a normal AC extension cord running to a wall outlet. After less than 10 minutes of fiddling with wires, I was generating power. Moving the giant solar panels was the part that actually took some effort. --------------------------- I’ve been following these types of systems for a long time, since before people started calling them plug-in or balcony solar. For the longest time, I thought they were just stupid. Paying a premium for an inverter that has lower input and output capacity than a string inverter, can’t be connected to batteries, and can’t generate power when the grid is down seemed obscene to me. To be honest, I still think they’re kind of dumb. Why can’t microinverters provide a DC tap so that I can also connect them to a battery system? All that said, as a middle-aged man who has now had to deal with electricians more than a few times, the appeal has become crystal clear. Microinverters basically exist because electricians as a whole are downright awful and rip everyone off.