.Stripes. All stock bar the k&n panel filter Silver Donating Members 8,061 Member For: 12y 1m 3d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 06/06/18 01:43 AM Share Posted 06/06/18 01:43 AM Coz they used most of their power in the evening... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,980 Member For: 11y 1m 22d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 06/06/18 02:02 AM Share Posted 06/06/18 02:02 AM He didn't use much power to start with? edit: have been contemplating looking into solar - how much roughly would a setup cost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennox Member 2,586 Member For: 11y 1m 21d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 06/06/18 02:36 AM Share Posted 06/06/18 02:36 AM 3kw should do a single guy easy unless you have a pool or something. 6.5kw of panels will need significant amount of unobstructed north (ideally) or east west roof space. That's a lot of panels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stripes. All stock bar the k&n panel filter Silver Donating Members 8,061 Member For: 12y 1m 3d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 06/06/18 03:21 AM Share Posted 06/06/18 03:21 AM It's more planning for the future too, I.e. if the missus were to move in. Plus I have whole house ducted reverse cycle aircon, which chews a bunch of power (high ceilings don't help with that either) when I'm running it when I'm home during the day. @Rab I've been seeing decent 6.5kw setups (I.e. European inverter and Canadian made panels) for between $4-4.5k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,980 Member For: 11y 1m 22d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 06/06/18 03:47 AM Share Posted 06/06/18 03:47 AM Ah, cheers - definitely worth looking into then. Home-office, computer, massive printer, heating/cooling etc all during the day. $700 power bill on average. Long side of the house facing north. Sounds like I'd be the perfect candidate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masda74 To Loud Gold Donating Members 4,112 Member For: 12y 4m 17d Gender: Male Location: WA, Perth Posted 06/06/18 05:42 AM Share Posted 06/06/18 05:42 AM I have a 15kw ducted aircon setup at home. It runs almost all the time during summer and winter. I still get paid by WP/Synergy. I have 6.08kw worth of panels on my roof. yes it is a north facing roof too, so it has 32 panels on there. I could fit more panels on that side if I wanted to, but it would be pointless. My parents hardly use any power during the day. they use the power at night and so it was pointless for them to get the setup that they did Dan. Like I said, read your meter in the morning and at night and this will allow you to calculate how much power you use during the day and at night. The newer aircons do not chew up that much power if you run them all the time. Turning them off and on all the time will chew up power for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennox Member 2,586 Member For: 11y 1m 21d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 07/06/18 12:54 AM Share Posted 07/06/18 12:54 AM that's a serious system. Back when I was installing them (7 years ago) the biggest we ever did was 5kw and it cost them over 30k.They have come down so much in price but so has the feed in tariff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masda74 To Loud Gold Donating Members 4,112 Member For: 12y 4m 17d Gender: Male Location: WA, Perth Posted 07/06/18 02:18 AM Share Posted 07/06/18 02:18 AM ohh I was one of the first ones to install such a big system. At first I got 27 panels and then a couple of years later I got 5 more added in. It has paid itself off already which is good, so I have recovered the cost. I am glad I got in when I did. Now the extra payment is helping with the mortgage. :D 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidxr6t skids Donating Members 2,754 Member For: 11y 3m 19d Gender: Not Telling Posted 07/06/18 09:22 AM Share Posted 07/06/18 09:22 AM Had a client recently who had a power system by redback technologies who reckoned the whole package worked out economically for them. I think he got the panels inverter and battery system all installed at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,980 Member For: 11y 1m 22d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 07/06/18 10:23 AM Share Posted 07/06/18 10:23 AM Cheers guys - might spend a time checking the options out - might put the Haltech on hold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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