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4-Pack ECO-WORTHY 48V 100Ah LiFePO4 Batteries + 5KW Hybrid Inverter
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I am in So Cal in a town where the city takes there own cut and thus electricity prices are ridiculous (Real rate calculated by taking bill and dividing by KHw is nearly $0.5 / kWh. I bought panels at 24 panels at $120 / 380 Watts call it $3K for nominal 9120 Watts but my real production is about 7800 peak 85% not bad. I bought an EG4 18KV off a guy who had planned to go off grid and an EG4 battery ~15Kwh battery to go with it for call it $8K. Another $2k in installation costs (12 panels on the flat patio cover needed angle brackets and welded up a angled patio cover on the side of the house for the other 12, some wire, flex, connectors, breaker to tie it to the panel. All in about $13K. Tax incentives cover ~1/3 so real cost is $9K. New california law only pays me $0.038 per KWh and charges me $.50 no wonder all the solar companies are going out of business. No way am I going to put power back into the grid at those prices.
My bill dropped from $400 to $150 / month. (My previous solar install under the old rules did drop to zero with no battery install required since the utility was paying me at the same rate they were charging. I get that there are infrastructure costs, but there is no way that infrastructure costs are 93% of costs. (In fact they publish that generation costs are 60%, pay us 60% and everyone would be happy)
Saving $250 month gives a payoff time of 3 years. This makes sense to me with the crazy rates in this city. It also insulates somewhat from future rate hikes. If your rates are in line with US average (about $.25) the payoff would double to 6 years.
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i didn't see nothin, friend
When i checked with them this is what they said-end of June for UL1973 and end of July UL9540A
Half a tank of propane that gets refilled daily
I am in So Cal in a town where the city takes there own cut and thus electricity prices are ridiculous (Real rate calculated by taking bill and dividing by KHw is nearly $0.5 / kWh. I bought panels at 24 panels at $120 / 380 Watts call it $3K for nominal 9120 Watts but my real production is about 7800 peak 85% not bad. I bought an EG4 18KV off a guy who had planned to go off grid and an EG4 battery ~15Kwh battery to go with it for call it $8K. Another $2k in installation costs (12 panels on the flat patio cover needed angle brackets and welded up a angled patio cover on the side of the house for the other 12, some wire, flex, connectors, breaker to tie it to the panel. All in about $13K. Tax incentives cover ~1/3 so real cost is $9K. New california law only pays me $0.038 per KWh and charges me $.50 no wonder all the solar companies are going out of business. No way am I going to put power back into the grid at those prices.
My bill dropped from $400 to $150 / month. (My previous solar install under the old rules did drop to zero with no battery install required since the utility was paying me at the same rate they were charging. I get that there are infrastructure costs, but there is no way that infrastructure costs are 93% of costs. (In fact they publish that generation costs are 60%, pay us 60% and everyone would be happy)
Saving $250 month gives a payoff time of 3 years. This makes sense to me with the crazy rates in this city. It also insulates somewhat from future rate hikes. If your rates are in line with US average (about $.25) the payoff would double to 6 years.
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Wait who fills them up? Solar is not included in this deal.
These have a place. I have a similar setup but much smaller like 5kwh total. I have a propane Genny that I need to run 3hrs to full charge the batt. And then it runs for about 5-6hrs during the day or 8hrs in the night. This way the gen is used most efficiently and I get a lot of quiet backup power during multi day outages.
Out here we only lose power in winters and solar charging is not much help.