Anyone Have 1,500 watts Solar?

[MEXICOWANDERER]

Can you describe your System?

[KD4UPL]

Residential solar can be as high as 600v.

I have 36 235 watt 60 cell panels on my house. 12 feed an Outback battery back-up system with 2 3.6kW inverters and 8 6v golf cart batteries. The other 30 panels feed an SMA 6kW grid tie inverter.

[brulaz]

time2roll wrote:
60 cell, Vmp is about 360, Vmax is a bit over 400.

Thanks, didn't know that household solar Vs were allowed to get this high. :E

[time2roll]

60 cell, Vmp is about 360, Vmax is a bit over 400.

[brulaz]

time2roll wrote:

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12 panels in series to a grid tie 2500 watt inverter.
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? My 72 cell, "24V" panels have a Voc of 45 volts.
12 in series would be 540 volts.
Vmp is 37V or 444V in series.

Maybe yours are "12V" (36 cell) panels? But didn't think those were used much in house installations as they're more expensive.

[Colo_Native]

I have a 5.5 KW on my house that is tied to the grid there are 2 inverters and I have 36 panels. I had 510w of solar on my old FW 2 255 panels

[time2roll]

3 kW as a grid tie system on my house. 12 panels in series to a grid tie 2500 watt inverter. No battery. Produces about 4.8 mWh annually.
Probably not what you are looking for.