3d ago

Those of you with solar panels, what's been your experience?

I'm thinking of getting solar panels and a battery for our house.

What's your setup like, and is there anything you wish you'd set up differently if you were going to install it again? What supplier are you with?

A company extremely local to us is offering 12x Aiko Energy panels (465 watt), with a Sunsynk 5 kW inverter and a 5.32kWh battery. Octopus Energy are offering a similar set up for a similar price, but they're using 450 watt panels, so with using 12 panels I'd be potentially be losing 180 watts vs what the other company is offering. Is that a significant amount or would it basically not really amount to much additional power?

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Don't get a solaredge inverter. In the new model they removed the lcd screen showing yoir production and to know how much you are producing or other statistics, you must use their online dashboard that stats costing after 10 years.
- I've got a SolarEdge system but I've enabled the local ModBus to get the data so I don't need to connect to the cloud for it.
  
  Did you use specific docs for this? I have SolarEdge and wouldn’t mind going local with them too. I’ve got off most cloud services, but this one persists.
  
  For Home Assistant? There are several about but this is the one that worked for me.
  You need to enable it via the webconsole on the inverter. There is a magic reset sequence that will boot it up as an Access Point and then you connect via WiFi: full instructions
  
  Cheers! Yes, I use Home Assistant for automations.
  
  You are a savior, it's a shame we must resolve to this, but at least there's the option to do it. Still shame on them for removing the lcd screen

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