5 Things Homeowners Regret After Buying Solar for Home

What are the 5 Things People Regret After Buying Solar? In this video, I cover this and much more.

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0:00 - Intro
0:17 - Regret #1
3:15 - Regret #2
5:13 - Regret #3
7:49 - Regret #4
8:54 - Regret #5

[cristiancucu]

i dont know what to say man, i am a heavy fan of of grid systems .... the only bad side to that are the battery prices wich are actually going lower and lower .... you have to see the system in steps : first the big charger - panels + mppt + cables (i dont see overpaneling as a bad thing, it helps with clouds and shades) ; second is storage (battery) if you are not using pomps and such you dont need more then 20 kwh of battery capacity but if you do then you will need i would think about 60 kwh but you will go bigger if you want air conditioner ; and third is the invertor and it depends on where you live you may need an invertor for 120 or 240 ac exit voltage and if it is US for example 120 (more expensive electric instalations - lower voltage higher amperage -you peeps in US do like to make your lifes more expensive, hi hi) you can update your your dc instalation litle bi litle (a few more panels and an mppt and cables and you expanded a bit ) and use it as a supliment in wich you get your consumator one bi one out of the grid and when your solar is as big as you like you go completly of grid , it is how i done it and had no problems .... i do recomand big mppt and big battery from the start, the battery will be a big efort sory for bad english, i am not an english man

[lownow]

Good video! A few other things most people don't realize: 1) Unless you include a battery in your system purchase, your home won't have power if the utility goes down, even on a bright sunny day. 2) If you buy 10, 000 watts of panels, you're likely to get only about 7, 000 to 8, 000 of that in actual use, and that's in peak full sun. 3) Solar panels are extremely sensitive to shading. If you have trees or other obstructions that will shadow even one panel of your system, the total output will suffer much more than you would expect.

[hmspain]

I think putting solar on an older roof should make the list.

[callmebigpapa]

What I regret is not going solar 10 years ago. The system would have paid for itself 2x over by now.

[stephenbrickwood]

PV panels shade your roof from heat build up in the hot months.
Air-condition load reduced. 😊😊

[peteroffpist]

Correct analysis, did buy and pay my 64 panels 2013. This year I hope to buy a battery to add on. I have east, south and west faced panels. If you build a new house the Tesla solar roof is the way to go. But for the rest of us the panels these days are so cheap just add some extra panels and inverters the sherry on the cake is a battery. But warranty is no worries, never heard of some under warranty broken panels or inverters. Should last 50 years even if efficiency will drop a bit.

[jaysway]

Great video, I’m a diy guy that needs to figure out the best placement for my ground mount in my back yard that will gather the most sun. Is there a free site that I can use to figure this out on my own?

[mickkaylor]

Plenty of Lease options with no escalation.

[michaelmammoth]

I regret buying a solaredge inverter instead of solarark. It's been nothing but trouble and nothing is user-serviceable. I'm almost at the point of taking the L and scrapping the solaredge inverter and paying for a new SolarArk inverter out of pocket.

[FirmIntegritySolar]

Hey man, love your videos. Have you actually come across a REAL scenario of 'fair-market-appraisal lease buyout' being "inflated"? I am asking genuinely. We HEAR a lot of talk in the solar industry and most people are bias in one direction... The only person I've ever come across who bought out their system from Sunrun in San Diego when they purchased their home got a very fair buyout price. I believe the system was less than 5 years old, roughly 5 kW and they paid <10k. I am not someone who leans towards leases but I would love to uncover this mystery... If anyone else knows of someone who BOUGHT OUT a lease/PPA, please comment! Thank you :)

[stephenbrickwood]

Vehicles have 2 jobs, the long drive and 100s of daily drives.

Parked 23hrs every day and all night your BV, battery vehicles, has a massive oversized battery, oversized for that daily drive.
Its UTILIZATION when parked as a massive supply of electricity or storage of electricity will be a massive feature. 😳

V2G, V2Home, V2Building, feature will mean that the national electrical grid will not be needed.
Sadly for this $TRILLIONS grid infrastructure.
Death by cashflow drought.
Governments will fight back.
Investment interests will fight back.
Superannuation funds will fight back.
Fossil fuels will fight back.
The DARK SIDE OF SOLAR 😮😮😮😮

Selfplug-in at every building carpark space will also be an ezi pezi feature. Home robotic vacuum cleaner for example.

Trickle currents all day long and all night long. 😊😊😊😊

Buildings with PV panel roof shading in a warmer climate will be a feature of all buildings. 😊😊😊😊

[steverturnsk]

The BIGGEST misinformation (lie?) in the industry is the rated watts of panels. I have pieced my own system together using flooded lead acid batteries, three different inverters (one dedicated to heat a hot water tank only), 60 or so solar panels of 8 different types and 10 individual victron charge controllers. I do not use grid tie inverters. I have tested EVERY individual solar panel on an Ecoflow battery/inverter at noon during the summer in N. CA. propped up on a sawhorse exactly 90 degrees to the sun. Not one panel has produced more than 70% of it's rated capacity, and that is only for a couple of hours a day. PG$E in CA limits the amount of solar one can have to 110% of average yearly usage and who knows what panel wattage they use for the calculations. 6 years ago I actually signed up for a grid tie system at $30K, then that night I realized that it would take me 17 years for it to pay for itself if I paid cash, with no battery backup. I cancelled the contract the next morning. In N CA we get PG$E outages averaging two weeks total a year, mostly due to snow and winds that bring trees down across power lines. Also for a few days here and there to shut down the power in order to decrease the wildfire issues during the fall. Another issue that is not spoken (it is rare) if a lithium battery goes into a thermal runaway fire state, the fire cannot be put out but must burn itself out; and your house with it. Lead acid batteries do not have thermal runaway moments. I am 90% off grid and use PG$E mainly for air conditioning from 7pm to 8:30 pm after the sun sets. I also use the PG$E grid while using my welder and air compressor. I have a bank of manual transfer switches between the grid, my inverters and the house circuits. I live on 13 acres, half of the panels are on stilts on a hill facing west for the afternoon air conditioning. CA is not humid., so the AC is run only 7 hours a day. I am a retired marine engineer and am not bothered by operating the switches.

[disneymike]

Has anyone used this guy?
solar pros? Seems very reputable.