It has taken me half a year to get this all figured out but I am finally generating a little ‘free’ electricity. You can see all the pictures on the Projects tab above. I saved $0.06 yesterday!
I have 2 panels of 300W and a big ass lithium battery. There is a regulator thingy that measures the house current in real time and lets the solar power trickle in less than what I am using. No power goes to the grid and I don’t need a special meter. The battery will trickle current back out at night and charge during the day. It is a clever little system.
It took a while to run the circuit and get the antenna wires and get everything communicating properly.
The parts from Legion Solar via indigogo set me back $1500 with a few hundred more in rails, wire, roof parts. This is a ‘do it yourself’ kit and this was a big job. I actually have 2 more panels coming and an inverter. The inverter will let me run AC items from the battery if the power goes out.