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   Clewless1 | Nov 17, 2010 12:34am | #1

   If you know how to do everything else ... the hookup shouldn't be very hard.

   Know where you stand for e.g. incentives ... CSI offers a rebate ... but maybe it has to be installed by someone else?? Not sure how that works. Also, you may have to submit an interconnect agreement w/ the utility ... I'm assuming you are grid connected. Utilities want to know who and where there are potential 'back feeds' into an otherwise dead line.

   Some colleagues of mine in SoCal have electric bills in the 50 cent range w/ their new systems!!! pretty neat!

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   junkhound | Nov 18, 2010 08:44am | #2

   'everything except the hook up myself'

   the hookup is by far the easiest part. I've found that cell alignment when you solder the individual cells together is much harder, plus getting the dc93-500 and cell cover glass properly positioned is even more difficult..

   Oh, oh, I bet you mean you are buying premade and framed panel, huh?

   Well, in that case, hookup is still the easiest part, proper alignment of the tracking gimbals, etc, is more difficult.....

   wait, wait, bet you are just using flat panels in a fixed orientation?

   Well, hookup is STILL the easiest part, just hood the wires together and build your H-bridge converter.....

   Oh, wait, your are buying the converter......etc.

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   DanH | Nov 18, 2010 10:19am | #3

   Bill, you gotta keep in mind that JunkHound only pretends to be this guy with acres of sheds full of all sorts of contraptions.  He actually lives in a little high-rise apartment in NYC.