14 points

Tell me about your experience? I’ve been interested, but it’s admittedly daunting.

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What do you want to know? Like my experience when shopping for panels? Or my experience having them on the house?

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10 points

What’s it like to maintain them?

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I have only had them for a couple of months, so I haven’t got that far yet. From some research I have done, I should hose them off once a year. The installer told me that I could probably just hose them off from the ground level, but I’ll probably hop up on the roof and hose them off. I’ll probably do it next spring for the first time.

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8 points

I’ve had mine for right at a year. Haven’t done anything, I’ll consider cleaning if I see efficiency taper off

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I’ve had panels for 3 years now. There’s no maintenance needed. Performance is monitored via app and the company that installed them for me will contact me if something is wrong with them for the next 25 years.

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1 point

I want to know if all your neighbors hate you for making fun of them instead of just inviting them inside.

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Nah, there’s no way they saw me with how bright the sun was. Plus, the nearby neighbors know I have solar panels. They had to sign off on it for the HOA. If they knocked on my door and asked to come in, I would gladly let them in. But I’m not gonna go knocking on everyone’s door in the neighborhood and invite them in. I can’t save everyone.

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6 points

I’ve had solar panels and a battery for almost four years. Other than cleaning the panel surfaces once or twice a year they have been fully maintenance free.

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28 points

Buy a spare ac and extension cord and run it in the front lawn just to mess with em!

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7 points

Yikes…

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12 points

Ok, even discounting how extremely wasteful it would be, that’s TOO cruel! 😂

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73 points

Me living in a state that doesn’t have rolling blackouts…

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17 points

For now.

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7 points

The us has 3 energy grids: east coast, west coast, and texas. As long as don’t live in Texas, you shouldn’t have issues with electricity.

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It’s not that simple, there are local grids that can only take so much. California had rolling blackouts as recent as 2020 https://abcn.ws/3er0Y8i

And completely unrelated, but due to the wildfires and the lawsuits against the power companies, they have also started cutting power when the lines are in areas of high wind. https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/psps/

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10 points

Me living where it’s 60-75 all year.

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4 points

What country is that?

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With that kind of consistency without being consistently super hot, I’d say it’s somewhere close to the equator but high elevation.

I’d mention a couple examples I know of, but I wouldn’t want to risk semi-doxxing them by narrowing it down further 😄

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California central coast

Portugal central coast is similar.

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10 points

I’ve tried Googling it and failed, where are you OP?

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Lmao, take a guess. Where is it hot and has a constantly failing power grid? The answer is always Texas.

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6 points

Set up a sign in your yard “These communist solar panels sure are keeping me cool.”

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Well California has a lot of the same issues when it comes to heat waves. You know it’s Texas because OP mentions owning their home.

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True, they do have lots of issues. I actually moved from California to Texas because I would never be able to buy a house out there.

Last time I visited my parents in CA, their power was out for the first 3 days of my trip. They got a hotel.

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Goddamn libs with their goddamn sun power

where’s the diesel generators?? Fucking commies haven’t figured out that something has to explode first to get anywhere!!!

/s

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The car IS the gas generator haha

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