Nice setup, I don't even want to know what 10 electricians cost on your project! I got my July electric bill today, $80 for fuel, $20/week paid for grid electricity. ($159 bill)
I have as of now, 3780 watts tracking and 4080 watts fixed on the roof. I'm moving as much as I can to tracking for more power. The cost of copper wire is a killer, I have a 160 ft homerun of #8 for each 6 panel array, two per tracker. http://wizbandit.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/mvc-041f.jpg I have one array of 12 KC120's and the other two have KC130's on them. My Solar work-in-progress can be followed here: http://wizbandit.wordpress.com/category/solar-power/ I'm converting a Ford Ranger to EV soon and on my to-do list is a free use EV charging station out by the side gate. I'm making around 50 KWH per day this summer so it won't cost me so why not. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamie Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 10:16 PM To: FLEAA Mailing List Subject: Re: [FLEAA] off grid It is easier to encourage solar if you are using it yourself. It is harder to encourage people to do things you aren't doing yourself. Anyone is welcome to look at pictures of my 5.2 kw system in Davie here: http://web.mac.com/legacyvideos/iWeb/Happenings/PV%20install.html I did the installation of the mounting rails myself to save $10,000. I spent $37,000 and got back $20,000 from the State of Florida. Buying the equipment from Sun Electronics saved me lots of money. Their prices are rock bottom. Battery based grid-tied residential systems like mine are typically 48VDC. I use 8 6 volt golf cart batteries. For longer duration of backup power you would use larger batteries. Batteryless grid-tie systems provide no back up power but are more efficient. But when the grid is down, you are down. I build this system to have clean back up power and to reduce my monthly electric bill. You would charge an EV using 110 or 220AC, some of which will come from your inverter, not from your PV system batteries. Jamie On Jul 25, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Michael Clark wrote: > looks like CNN did help us out a bit an showed the grid can handle > electric cars. 30 cents be kilowatt hour to charge an EV???? > thats insane!!! > > Makes the idea that we will need a solar charging station sold with > each EV even better if the utilities are going to rip off EV owners > like that. Greensburg Kansas will be the first all solar city and > I hope that makes the utiliities shake in their boots on the > prospect it goes nation wide. > > I will be sure to push solar at our meetings and get in contact > with anyone that has a solar house to help spread the word > _______________________________________________ > Florida EAA mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.floridaeaa.org _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org
