Stop in for a cup of coffee

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.
Don't forget hail storms. This happened in Nebraska. Now they're useless as tits on a boar hog. I wonder what the cost of the damage was? To give some perspective, that's a ROAD and a PARKING LOT over to the left.
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