BeFreeSolar.com Befree With Solar Power 230 Watt solar panels with 210 Watt Enphase Inverter

[TopMagneticGenerator]

currently solar panels are too expensive

the best thing to do is to build them yourself

look in Google for a website called Top-DIY-Solar-Panels by John Sommer

[ditmar11]

that is a great system, just great, unfortunatly all i can afford right now is 850W of solar, a 600amphr. battery bank\ and some grid tie inverters that put 300w ac back into the house... love your panels, god bless

[hooterman2828]

that is one sweet ass set of panels and would be a great thing if everyone would get something like that. unfortunatly something like that is well out of my price range, so i'll have to settle for my 1/2 kw off grid system for now. i've been adding to it little by little so maybe after a few more years lol i'll be able to have an gridtied. but that is one nice setup.

[swizzlenutz]

I'm not sure how it is where you guys and girls are but here Nation Grid sucks. They won't cut you a check. They set you up with a separate account and credit it to your account. You'll never see a dime and they get free energy if you over produce and they'll still charge you the "delivery fee" every month if you remain grid tied. I for one want to get off the grid completely.

[verucasalt13]

The newest panels cost a fraction of PV panels but you need more of them. You could get a CIGS unit for half the price.

Here is where you make money on solar.

They produce energy when it costs the most during the day. Prices change from day to night from the electric company. The prices of energy are going to be going way up in the next decade so you have to add that. The panels will be at 80 percent in 25 years. They will last over half a century. New panels make money back in 5-7 years.

[nx2overide]

wow sick set up!!! Thats amazing!

[BloodTar]

But if I only pay 120.00 a month for my electric bill and a system like that costs, let's say $15,000 (I'll bet he paid more) then it would take me almost 11 years before I actually started getting my "free" energy and by that time the panels have already used up half of their life expectancy.

[befreegreenenergy]

@BloodTar if you do a CT solar lease then you pay only about the same as you would to the electric company, nothing up front. and in 11 years you only use a tiny bit of the panel's life. they are warranted to make 80% of their power today at year 25. so they will actually last forever, if you take good care of them, they can last a lifetime!

[curtis0432]

@BloodTar did u take into the account for raiseing power cost i rember when our power bill at our house was only about 150 bucks now its around 300 bucks some months and im only 22 years old think how much it will rise in the next ten years

[verucasalt13]

I bet he paid about 17500 after fed rebates if they are good 230 watt panels each. That would be around 37kw per day subtracting optimal conditions, sub-peak performance and seasonal daylight changes. If he is way up north, then only 25k per day. I use 18k per day down in hot Texas. That means 7 -19k is SOLD back to the utility company. You have to add that as well. No one uses batteries anymore. They sell back to the utility.

[robofx69]

@verucasalt13 selling back to the utility company, you only get part of the cost you pay for the power from them...you still get credit, but the money you are making is the saving you get by using your own power not purchasing from them.

[Thetrutv]

Thats so cool!