SHOWING OFF OUR SOLAR POWER SYSTEM

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Keeping things simple here, I'll just stick to the basic tech aspects of our new solar power system. For us this has never been about any belief in the climate change psyop. Although New Zealand is being relentlessly hammered with chemtrails and geoengineering so the climate really is changing - but it's not hotter, it's pissing down with rain all the time.

What this is mainly about is an expectation that our globalist "government" will do it's best to crash our power supply as part of it's controlled demolition of our infrastructure.

Running a business from home we have five fridge/freezers containing thousands of dollars of stock we want to keep cool, and we use quite a bit of power, so as a bonus, generating our own power actually works out quite well economically.

Our solar power system

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We have two Solax Triple X batteries and will get a third later - so 11.6 Wh now and going up to 17.4 Wh.

They are 5.8 Wh each, have a 10 year warranty, and are good for 6000+ cycles with 90% discharge - so they get good reviews - only thing they get picked on for is their weight - 72.2kg, (the master one is about 80kg) but we don't really care about that anyway

https://www.solarchoice.net.au/products/batteries/solax-battery-review/

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The inverter is a Solax X1 Hybrid 6kW - they have high efficiency ratings (98%)

https://www.solarchoice.net.au/products/inverters/Solax-Review/

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And we have 22 panels - they are Longi b perc half cut glass solar panels - as used in a lot of big solar power stations in China and Australia

https://www.longi.com/en/products/modules/hi-mo-5/

They are 1.7m x1.1m size and weigh 21kg each

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415W - again pretty good reviews and considered good power return for the price (about NZ$380 each)

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Our total cost so far is approx NZ$35k (US$22k) - there are a few other bits and pieces we had to sort out that are included in that, and we still need about another $1000 of extras to finish getting it set up how we want (with full control over what power goes where)

We don't have a smart meter and won't be getting one, and at this point are not selling any excess power, partly because the install still isn't certified, but also because we are using almost all of it ourselves anyway.

We have 10 panels on the west side and 12 on the east side - they should get pretty good sun most of the day for 9 months of the year, (March and April were pretty good) but they will go into shade by mid afternoon in winter (June, July, August)

Even at the current electricity prices (which are rising rapidly) our system will pay for itself in about eight years. It's fun watching the power coming in and sometimes we turn high power use items like the clothes dryer on or off depending on the amount of power coming in.

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Melbourne Airport Solar power farm (they are using very similar panels but a lot more of them)

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That looks like a neat setup that should serve you well. Do you mean each battery is 5.8 kWh?

Very nice set up.. Worth the piece of mind plus, when the power goes out.