[Jack Houpe]

Jim the solar panels on the pergola was not my first idea, its so blame hot in our courtyard which is in the middle of our house in the summer I wanted to put some tinted polycarbonate panels up there to keep the sun off. The bid I got was $3300, my great niece is a sales person for ALTE.com and she sold me the panels for our airstream interstate at a good deal so I bought 12 solar panels to cover the pergola at $3600 which included shipping. Thus started the solar house project.

Richard each heat pump has 2 compressors? No wonder they are so heavy!

I don't want to get off subject to much here BUT there is a way to run these inverter mini splits off DC, my friends who live in the Bahamas have done it also they have three 400 watt panels in series tied into a 220vac 50 gallon hot water heater with NO inverter and the system works perfectly well unless you have no sun or a bunch of people spending the night and using up a 50 gallon hot water tank. These people live totally off the grid as electricity in the Bahamas is 48 cents a kilowatt hour (ours here is 14 cents) PLUS a fuel charge on top of that. The each have a back up diesel generator in case the sun doesn't shine to keep the lithium batteries charged up.

Looks like the fun begins tomorrow!

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