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@dianne46 No battery bank. It really depends on what your goal for the system is. My goal is power augmentation and cost reduction. My goal isn’t to be self reliant / independent.

@strawberry0034 A pessimistic 5 years and an optimistic 10 years for the china made equipment. Which is basically everything. I don't have batteries. But cycles for the best batteries typically can go 3000 cycles. Think of one cycle as a day. So about 8 years on batteries.

End of life (imo) is really just the point where it reaches an efficiency that makes it no longer financially beneficial or have a much better alternative. But they’ll still produce significant power. You can still use them in other applications like basic solar lighting or in a remote area...

@resjudicata Will try to keep it updated! Thanks

@franklynkreul The full service installers would be able to tell you how viable your roof is. Also for additional info, shade is a big problem for solar panels. If say you have a string of solar panels (5 panels combined to one line) and one of the solar panels get covered by shade (20% shaded)...

@churchbuilder Yes. Its for the processing and the new meter that they're going to be installing

@helloihaveaname I work from home so power is mostly utilized. Selling power back to meralco is by the net-metering mechanism I mentioned. Any excess you have, you sell to meralco then they credit you for 5.0php for each kWh you contribute to the grid. The way I like to think of it is, I use...

@jesusfreak_2008 See comment below for answers to 1 & 2. Lazada - Solis 5g Inverter. They’re actual website is https://solarprice.com.ph. The panels I got from Greewatt corporation. You can find them on Facebook. I’ll do so later on.

@mikey124 Thank you for that valuable insight. Truly appreciate it, I agree with you that your computation is more correct than mine and would provide a better estimate. Thanks. Your investment standpoint is interesting. While I agree that ‘true’ investments are the ones that will increase your...

@tenderloin The insurance Is from our longtime house insurance. I just added it to the policy. They only insure in case of damages and not due to solar manufacturer defects (like I think solaric offers). It’s a grid tie inverter. I wanted to get a good cost:power ratio while being on the upper...

@blossoming Will try to! Thanks I’m curious about that too. Good thing my inverter has that free service of data collection.

@johnejohne How'd you do your net metering and how much did it cost you? Please let us (me in particular) know about how much difference it made.

I've only seen very few posts regarding solar and its viability as an investment. So here I am to show some actual numbers from our 1st month on solar. Do note that my solar installation was a semi-DIY venture to cut down costs. I bought solar from a wholesaler, an inverter from Lazada and had...