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Comment by Brian Martin on August 16, 2015 at 10:10

Well one step closer to no more electric bills, they finished up the panels this weekend now we are waiting on the inverter installation.  I know this isn't knife related but a lot of people have shown interest.  My system is a 12Kw system, at peak should output around 90 amps, early morning and late afternoon more like 65 average.  Which should based on my past electric bills give me enough reverse meter spin to offset what we use at night.  My payment is on a 12 year note with the payment being about $30 bucks a month less than my average montly electric bill.  We hope to double up and pay it off in 7 years or so.  Tax credits and rebates from the electric company equaled around $20,000 half of the $40,000 price tag.  They have a very well engineered roof mounting system, this was my main worry but once I saw how it worked my worries are gone.  My system should over produce because the installers where able to get most of the panels on my south facing roof, the system was figured mostly with  a computer program that used average sun for my location based on the east and west slopes which aren't as efficient.  So win for us.  We didn't do a battery bank as the salesman wasn't sold on the capabilities yet, which he sells them so for him to recommend waiting was good enough for me.  He said Telsa is working on a new electric car battery that should be out soon and to wait until it hit the market.  A battery system would allow total removal from the grid system.  As it stand the panels will do nothing in a black out because by federal law requires the system shuts down to prevent harm to crews working to repair power.  I have a portable generator for power outages now anyhow so that is not a big concern.  Happy to answer any questions.