Audible improvement going SOLAR?
nooshinjohn
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For those of you that have switched to solar power at home, did you see any audible improvements by making that switch? Our electric bill has been climbing to the point of getting out of hand and I was wondering if making the move yields sonic benefits. That might be the push I need to at least think about making the switch.
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Our system is a net metering system, so I am not sure we're actually using the power we generate as much as just feeding it back to the grid for credit.
But, then again, this house has had PVs since day one, so I guess I don't know, either way.
Saying that it's "too hard" to pursue your dreams is no different than admitting to yourself that you are too lazy to achieve them.
Costs for solar can be a bit high, depending, so it still may be worth the switch if you plan on staying in the same house for a long time. Also, consider the shape of your roof. If it's near the end of it's life cycle, add the cost of a new roof into that. You don't want to install panels then 3 years later remove everything for a new roof.
Another thing to consider, is you may want to give a yell out to your homeowners insurance and see if there is any adjustments that they require.
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Saying that it's "too hard" to pursue your dreams is no different than admitting to yourself that you are too lazy to achieve them.
Lumin S1 - X1 power supply
Sony XA-5400ES SACD
Pass XP-22 pre, X600.5 amps
Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers, SPOD spikes
Shunyata Triton v3/Typhon QR on source, Denali 2000 (2) on amps
Shunyata Sigma XLR analog ICs, Sigma speaker cables
Shunyata Sigma HC (2), Sigma Analog, Sigma Digital, Z Anaconda (3) power cables
Mapleshade Samson V.3 four shelf solid maple rack, Micropoint brass footers
Three 20 amp circuits.
Saying that it's "too hard" to pursue your dreams is no different than admitting to yourself that you are too lazy to achieve them.
Probably fairly practical where you are -- probably not practical where we are (at least without a tracker on the PV array), since we're so far north and our weather is so mercurial.
TESLA Power Wall seems to be the sine qua non.
Again, though, the issue with going that route is you have a bunch of (digital) microinverters (or, I dunno, maybe "macroinverters" with batteries) converting the DC to AC and (probably) generating plenty of high-frequency hash while doing so.
In all seriousness -- if vast amounts of DC power are available, the best case, I would think, would be to simply bypass the AC to DC power supplies in all of one's hifi hardware, and mainline DC into 'em as needed. More efficient, too.
On the other hand, the one nice thing about our ancient AC linear power supply technology is that it's easy to generate many different (AC) voltages through the magic of a power transformer with multiple secondary windings! Not that it's impossible to generate different DC voltages, but the 'analog' way to do it (with power resistors and Ohm's law) seems a little inelegant.
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Thus did we add a high-efficiency heat pump and a single air handler (so far) on the first floor of our house this past summer. This sucka is pretty remarkable (to me) -- it can extract heat from the air outside down, claims Mitsubishi, to -12 degrees F. There is no electric heat 'backup' on this heat pump (!?!).
We've already been down to zero one morning this 'fall' (it's not winter yet) and the air handler inside was blowing very pleasantly warm air. I was impressed.
We also ran it in hot (by local standards) weather in July and still 'banked' electric energy (kW-hr) on our "net metering" connection with the grid. I was pretty pleased with that, too.
DWP is going to charge you anyway and if they are like AZ power the sir charge will increase in proportion to the revenue lost to home solar.
New doors and triple pane glass are on the upgrade list. Having the walls filled with foam and a new ac panel are also on that list. We are thinking about selling one of the condos we own to fund the upgrades and pay off the house.
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