Those of you with solar panels, what's been your experience? (feddit.uk)

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I'm thinking of getting solar panels and a battery for our house.

What's your setup like, and is there anything you wish you'd set up differently if you were going to install it again? What supplier are you with?

A company extremely local to us is offering 12x Aiko Energy panels (465 watt), with a Sunsynk 5 kW inverter and a 5.32kWh battery. Octopus Energy are offering a similar set up for a similar price, but they're using 450 watt panels, so with using 12 panels I'd be potentially be losing 180 watts vs what the other company is offering. Is that a significant amount or would it basically not really amount to much additional power?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I love DIY maybe too much, but this strongly violates my "nothing structural, nothing roofing" rule.
They are both things I'd want a massive company to be doing, just from the sheer magnitude of the problems if they screw it all up.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Exactly. There's a high chance of me dropping a panel off the roof, or worse, myself.

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