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Solar Electrical is almost done


The AC Disconnect, the final piece of the solar electrical system was installed last week...Alas, they discovered that they wired something wrong in the attic and now they have to come back this week to fix it....Hopefully we'll be spinning the electrical meter backward by the end of the week.....

We have a grid tied system, that means that when the power goes out during a storm, our power will go out as well....It would take thousands of dollars of batteries (and lots of space to store them) to have a system independent of the electrical grid...

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