What is bad about solar panels? Besides that it’s junk now, seems like a rare case. I think solar panels are good supplemental energy. I can live off just 200 watt panel in California.. powers a fridge, all my lights, laptop, Wi-Fi, security camera, and fans with no issue.. basically a $500 setup and as long as I don’t experience a hail storm I won’t have any electricity costs. I don’t think it’s for everyone, but if you own a home, why not build your own little system and avoid paying an electricity company? Solar required for off grid living, id assume this forum in general favor of being off grid, so don’t understand the hate towards it
Add air conditioning and the watts go way up. You can buy a pallet of solar panels pretty cheap. And now they have those all in one charger/converter doodads for fairly cheap.
Lithium batteries are very cheap for what they provide and how long they last.. for example 200 amp hour battery going for $600.. you have 200ah that’ll last you 10 years.. $60 a year.. barely over $1 a week in the long run
Is it regular lithium batteries? Those things fall off sharply around 3-5 years for most regular charge/discharge use cases, ie an iPhone. Lead acid isn’t great either but I’ve found it is possible to revive some with an electric welding machine. It’s kind of unsafe but does work
Yes it’s just lifepo4 lithium batteries but the technology just keeps advancing quickly. They advertise like 5000-40000 cycles… iPhone is getting discharged to 0% daily.. if you have enough panels you shouldn’t discharge it that much making it last a lot longer
What is bad about solar panels? Besides that it’s junk now, seems like a rare case. I think solar panels are good supplemental energy. I can live off just 200 watt panel in California.. powers a fridge, all my lights, laptop, Wi-Fi, security camera, and fans with no issue.. basically a $500 setup and as long as I don’t experience a hail storm I won’t have any electricity costs. I don’t think it’s for everyone, but if you own a home, why not build your own little system and avoid paying an electricity company? Solar required for off grid living, id assume this forum in general favor of being off grid, so don’t understand the hate towards it
Add air conditioning and the watts go way up. You can buy a pallet of solar panels pretty cheap. And now they have those all in one charger/converter doodads for fairly cheap.
Batteries are still way expensive.
Lithium batteries are very cheap for what they provide and how long they last.. for example 200 amp hour battery going for $600.. you have 200ah that’ll last you 10 years.. $60 a year.. barely over $1 a week in the long run
Is it regular lithium batteries? Those things fall off sharply around 3-5 years for most regular charge/discharge use cases, ie an iPhone. Lead acid isn’t great either but I’ve found it is possible to revive some with an electric welding machine. It’s kind of unsafe but does work
Yes it’s just lifepo4 lithium batteries but the technology just keeps advancing quickly. They advertise like 5000-40000 cycles… iPhone is getting discharged to 0% daily.. if you have enough panels you shouldn’t discharge it that much making it last a lot longer