{"id":202,"date":"2018-10-03T23:04:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patellis.us\/?p=202"},"modified":"2019-08-04T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T13:15:04","slug":"solar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/solar-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Project &#8211; Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patellis.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20190202_181732.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-263 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patellis.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20190202_181732-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20190202_181732-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20190202_181732-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20190202_181732-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20190202_181732-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Always wanted to build a solar array for the house, but\u00a0 due to cheap electric in Florida, I could not\u00a0 economically justify. Being the sunshine state one would think there would be incentives to &#8220;Go Solar&#8221;&#8230; There isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>One day a friend called and told me that he found a system at a very reasonable price. Long story made short. I picked up a used system consisting of 36-230Watt 60 cell panels, all racking, wiring and a SMA Sunnyboy 7000kw grid tie inverter. The price was in the 25 cent per watt range. The system was only 7 years old and spent the last 5 in a workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Quick check with FPL, the local power company, to see if I would be allowed to install a grid-tie system &#8211; GOOD TO GO!\u00a0 Checked the county regs on installing &#8211; GOOD TO GO!\u00a0 Purchased, then spent the next 6-8 months trying to find someone to create the diagrams needed for permitting.\u00a0 Gave up and decided to do it myself.\u00a0 Oh, the fun of learning cad programs.\u00a0 The person that came up with the user interface was on crack.\u00a0 Anyway, things were going well until I hit my 1st snag&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I discovered that over the years the location where I live has became a 150MPH wind rated area.\u00a0 Meaning, just about anything you want to build needs to be able to handle 150MPH winds for some predetermined period of time.\u00a0 Well hell, the racking I acquired was only rated at 120MPH on a good day.<\/p>\n<p>After a week or so of Googling my fingers off I found racking for my ground mount from Snap-N-Rack.\u00a0 Main reasons for going with them was (1) They had Florida Engineering certifications (2) Price and (3)\u00a0 They have a really nice configuration tool that accessible online.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always wanted to build a solar array for the house, but\u00a0 due to cheap electric in Florida, I could not\u00a0 economically justify. Being the sunshine state one would think there would be incentives to &#8220;Go Solar&#8221;&#8230; There isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41 One day a friend called and told me that he found a system at a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/solar-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solar Project &#8211; Introduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[27,26,25],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-solar","tag-dyi","tag-grid-tie","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}