Upgrading My Solar Panels

Patrick and kyle share a full look into how to determine if a breaker upgrade is necessary for your solar project.

Upgrading my solar panels. For all you solar owners who fancy supersizing your system here is my guide to the important things you should consider when looking at upgrading your solar power system. Yes it is a bit long but it needs to be. You can think of installing a battery as more of an electrical project rather a roofing project. The old inverter is coming to the end of its useful life 10 15 years.

1 add more panels to your existing system using your original inverter. 2 get a new bigger inverter and add more panels too. However this is increasingly rare. Swap out the existing inverter with a hybrid inverter and add more panels a hybrid or multi mode inverter can handle multiple inputs most commonly solar and batteries.

While most grid connected solar panels should have a long life of 20 to 25 years panels can fail early. For more information and pricing please submit an online enquiry and our solar team will be happy to help. An nrel study in 2017 found a median failure rate of 5 out of 10 000 panels annually based on panel replacement figures for those installed between 2000 and 2015 and double that for those installed. When your solar panel system was installed the company brought in an installation crew to work on your roof.

Upgrading your solar energy system to work with battery storage as solar feed in tariffs drop far below the rates paid for grid electricity a growing number of homeowners are looking for ways to cut bills by making better use of their excess solar power generation. Solar backup power will my solar. 3 get a whole new separate solar system installed next to the original. Two days later john received a call from the same rep and was told that unfortunately the main panel upgrade would be required adding an additional 2 000 to the cost of the project.

New panels can be added without touching your existing system with a safe and easy ac cable run connecting your new array to your meter board and to your existing solar input. Let s go through each option in detail so you can weigh up the best approach for you.