A rare sunny day here in PNW was forecast, so my goal was to get everything wired and powered up. I can do all the mounting, dicor'ing and sealing in my garage, but actual testing needs sun, so off I went Saturday morning. First was assembling all the mount brackets, getting them up on the roof, and get an initial layout of the 8 panels.
Each panel was tested, and hookup began
Next, wire up power to the controller - and yes, that's not a Morning Star. Sandy at Grape Solar gave me a great buy on a returned Grape Solar MPPT, so why not...
Here's a side-on view from my second story deck--
And.. after making a few custom cables and everything wired up, we have life! And by this time, it was party cloudy, sun low in the sky by now being around 4pm. I was actully surprised I was getting 10a charge out of a hazy February sun.
I did manage to screw in and Dicor up 4 panels. Then I was just pooped... I did this Saturday because today I had another project I wanted to get done, install an in-wall space heater that I'm doing a write up on now.
