10 Things You Need To Know Before Getting Solar Panels Installed in 2024

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It was seriously important to me thank you you have cleared it to me. I won’t spend my money on all of that. Im happy with my current setting for now.❤

Taking the first steps into possibly getting PV. Excellent vid. Loads of good tips. Many thanks.

Nicely done Jordan! And a good looking installation. A mate here in Sydney had his corrugated roof damaged in a hail storm a few years ago. Big dents but no holes. He came to arrangement with insurer. Part was replaced and remainder was covered with solar panels!

Thanks. Lots of good information. I have been worried about having to reroof but the idea of in-roof panels might be the answer. Cheers

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This is a really useful video for those of us who want to embark on supplying renewables to grow a business. You're obviously not withholding any knowledge you've gained over the years and you're passing it on freely. Not many would do that. The bit about a structural engineer did occur to me but I wouldn't know where to start - until now. You've got rid of a lot of unknowns for me. This is a good channel to follow. Thanks for sharing.

Reasonable summary, thanks! It’s important to realise that any solar or EV charging installation can require consumer unit upgrades. I suggest, apart from the elephant in the room, it is important to choose systems which give good interoperability and give a good user interface to both display and adjust power flows. The elephant in the room, is the cost. I am just dealing with this, already having a solar installation, but needing a Zappi installed. In this case the solar had been installed years ago and now no space in my consumer unit and tighter regulations required a new box to be installed to remount some components, existing MCBs to be replaced with RCBOs to remove a single 3phase RCD to allow space for a 3phase RCBO to connect the Zappi. The main switch also had to be replaced with one including a main circuit breaker. The cost for all this ran to $6,000 AUD or 3,200 pounds including the cost of the 3 phase Zappi including hub. Conclusion, have a stiff drink before reading any quote for solar or EV charging installation.

I love your channel, your videos are extraordinarily well made, well scripted and well thought out, the lay out is optimal in logic and ease of viewing and you have a great skill in oration... but some times you do a disservice to the viewer simply from your passion for the subject matter. Me for instance, I live in Thailand and the biggest electrical usage in my home is AC where I picked an inverter unit with an extremely high efficiency rating, a very respectable inrush and a very moderate 900 watts draw when the compressor is running. Taking the inrush current as an average, cost of the batteries needed to run one of the units overnight is outrageous. You have a 10 hour window of charging with fairly steep upramps in the AM and fairly steep downramps in the PM so I need 14 hours of battery power for the house. I need 1.8 Kw per hour so I need 1.8 x 14= 25.2 KwH of battery plus the 20% wasted by the inverter so there is 31.* Kwh of power storage needed from batteries. I did all the math and with my electricity costing 40 USD a month payback is about 20 years. Now that is for a totally off grid situation, but why not go off grid if you go solar? In Thailand during the summer wow you get sun from 630 am till 630 pm with out a cloudy day pretty much every day. Again the vids are banging spot on and you are a great electrician. I just feel sometimes the hype surrounding Solar is a bit exaggerated... thanks ... Jim

For roofs try horizontal orientation for the panels, you can save a lot of space and you can put more panels in 3 arays😊. Anyway I watching you from Romania. I use to work like electrician for 3 years in Uk, but I move to Romania 4 years ago. All the best!🧨🧨🧨⚡️⚡️⚡️

The most important thing to check is that your installer is MCS accredited. Without an MCS certificate you can not take advantage of the decent export tariffs. Also, if you are being asked to send a lot of pictures over. I would suggest looking for a more local MCS installer who will actually come out to complete a survey. It is always nice to see the actual installer in person instead of giving over lots of money to someone who may just end up subbing it out to others.

Also remember just cause it says 100Amp on your main cut out fuse carrier dosn't mean that it is. often they have 80s in

Thanks for the information helps us to make an informed decision about getting Solar

Massive help, thanks for the video.

Recently got a 4.7kw 12 panel array on my SE facing house roof. Working great so far. Has a 9.6kwh battery with it and most days since the start of April I barely use more than 0.3kwh of grid power per day. Export income not sorted yet, octopus taking ages to sort this out.

Nice one Jordan that bird protection looks fabulous 🇮🇪😎👏

UK PV pricing is crazy - it looks like 4kWp system in the UK costs about the same as a 12kWp system on 10kWp of inverters in Australia. Plus we get a lot more sun, so the output is much higher.

It would be nice to see an "in roof" example. Nice video as always.

Thanks for the video, I'm very interested in the field/ground mounted solar. I just don't know where to start?

Good video. One thing I think you should have mentioned is the worst place to fit an inverter is the loft, hope companies don’t do this now The summer heat kills them. Loads were fitted like this in the early days of solar. Had 4 kw system fitted back when the feed in tariff first came out ( must be 2010/11?) yes was very expensive at the time but paid for itself in 8/9 years. Yes no feedin tariff now but systems much cheaper. Acquired 8 kw of panels and put on another roof. Wondering how best to utilise at the moment batteries have to be the way, even as a high electricity user I could be self sufficient for a good 6 months of the year. The high unit price of electricity has been a game changer for the solar industry, part of me thinks the powers that be are happy for prices to stay where they are