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halifaxhops said
Chris there are drawbacks to solar. Panel life is the big one and most when you lose power your out because the power goes back ito the grid then they sell it back to you. unless you have a large battery bank and that is also degrades over time. I had that system in HI and it was not cheap the best thing I dd was add a small wind generator think it was 500 wats 24VDC that way it charged at night also.

For a spell in the mid 80s all new residential construction had to include a solar system for the water heater. Our solar coils lasted 8 yrs and the water did it's universal solvent thing and ate holes in the coils. Shortly after that The County dumped that requirement for the permits. Probably due to the high failure rate.