So a friend of mine who owns a solar shed, carried out an expansion this past weekend. He said he .ade a lot of mistakes when building this ground mount as it was his first one. If you'd love to build one and have questions, please ask so I can drop another thread about the whole set up for anyone who might be interested.
For this upgrade he wanted to cover all of his electric since buying 2 EVs and charging 3. Rivian R1T, R1S, and Tesla Model 3. He has 2 existing arrays, one on his house roof installed by Tesla (36 panels and around 13kw) and one on his shed installed by himself (10 panels around 4kw). All this still wasn't enough to offset all of his electric usage since acquiring the 2 EVs. So what now?
He decided to add more solar panels obviously. He added 12 Hyperion 400w Bifacial panels. Friday would be the first day the array is live with temporary wire until he has an hour or so to finish up the wiring and trench the conduit.
With this expansion, he should easily offset his 3 EVs and if it goes according to plan, maybe I might have the same setup for myself sometime next year.
For this upgrade he wanted to cover all of his electric since buying 2 EVs and charging 3. Rivian R1T, R1S, and Tesla Model 3. He has 2 existing arrays, one on his house roof installed by Tesla (36 panels and around 13kw) and one on his shed installed by himself (10 panels around 4kw). All this still wasn't enough to offset all of his electric usage since acquiring the 2 EVs. So what now?
He decided to add more solar panels obviously. He added 12 Hyperion 400w Bifacial panels. Friday would be the first day the array is live with temporary wire until he has an hour or so to finish up the wiring and trench the conduit.
With this expansion, he should easily offset his 3 EVs and if it goes according to plan, maybe I might have the same setup for myself sometime next year.
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