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| George65 Guru  Joined: 18/09/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 308 |
Think I got the cheapest panels ever. The set of 16 240's I bought with the Micro Inverters I paid $550 For. Sold 8 Micros for $250 and the other 8 for $220. That leaves 16 panels plus racking for a total cost of $80 or $5 Per panel. Makes the set of 250's I bought last week for $25 ea look like I got ripped off!  Got onto a guy last Friday that reckons he has been throwing out 300 Panels Month. Doing a deal with him to buy them and bring them home to re sell them. |
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renewableMark Guru Joined: 09/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1678 |
You're like a bloody rat up a drainpipe mate. NSW and QLD seem to have good deals often, found this 5x 250w panels for $100 Cheers Caveman Mark Off grid eastern Melb |
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| George65 Guru Joined: 18/09/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 308 |
Thanks for that link. You taught me something. I could see the ad but when I searched, I couldn't find it & was wondering how I missed it. As is planned by fleabay whom own dumbtree, their search engine is crap. Figured out how to see more than I was now. Description was spot on so was distance but there is another factor at work apparently. Wondering how many others I have missed now? Did you buy them? It was a good deal! |
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Madness Guru Joined: 08/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2498 |
A few days ago I decided against buying 22 250 Watt Trina panels for $800 because I did not feel like driving an hour each way to pick them up. Ebay is normally more expensive than gumtree, I have seen 5KW of panels with inverter bidding to over $2,000 reguarly, on gumtree if you are quick the same can be bought for under 1k. There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. |
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| renewableMark Guru Joined: 09/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1678 |
Dumbtree hahaha that's a pisser! Dumb search engine alright. Cheers Caveman Mark Off grid eastern Melb |
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| George65 Guru Joined: 18/09/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 308 |
Are you kicking yourself now? Few months back I negotiated on a diesel lawnmower and got a better offer than I asked for. Had to pick it up that sunday afternoon but same thing, bit over an hour away and I was feeling depressed so couldn't be bothered. Next day when I came to mey senses and realised what a bargain it was, thing was gone. Mrs was at me to go get it even though she is normally against me getting more jusnk so that should have been my wake up riht there. I drove about 2.5 Hours the other week to get the 20x250 panels. Glad I did because they look pretty new and not like they have been out long at all. I find the same. Dumbtree has definitely got more flakes though. People that want stuff and never turn up, people you want to buy stuff off and never get back to you with pick time or address, people that you arrange a time to see stuff with and when you get there an hour after saying you'll be there in an hour have already sold it and say' I didn't think you were coming". I dislike ebay as it can be a real self interested racket but at least there is some degree of responsibility in it. Never ceases to amaze me the idiotic prices I see for stuff on there though and the fact some people are dumb enough to pay it let alone the ones that ask the over inflated prices. I'm thinking If I can source these other panels cheap I may be able to re sell them in the country where my Dad is and make some pocket money. Everything is more exy where he is and as I'm going there anyway...... |
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| renewableMark Guru Joined: 09/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1678 |
Getting lazy old timer!! $36 a panel, I'd bloody drive 2 hours easy. Cheers Caveman Mark Off grid eastern Melb |
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| Madness Guru Joined: 08/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2498 |
I don't have anywhere I can put the panels up ATM so there is if did get them I would have to store them and then move them again in the near future to our new place. Getting lazy?? Have heard about the young bull standing on the hill who said to the old bull "let's run down there and do a couple of those heifers" the old bull replied " no let's walk down there and do all of them" There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. |
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| renewableMark Guru Joined: 09/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1678 |
Hahahaha got cracked up twice on here today, I'll have to tell the wife that one. Cheers Caveman Mark Off grid eastern Melb |
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| renewableMark Guru Joined: 09/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1678 |
Nah, wife didn't like that joke/bit of wisdom, shook her head and walked off. Cheers Caveman Mark Off grid eastern Melb |
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| Madness Guru Joined: 08/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2498 |
You just reminded her that she has a young bull LOL. There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. |
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| renewableMark Guru Joined: 09/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1678 |
ahahahaha I had three goes today. Prob too much information. Cheers Caveman Mark Off grid eastern Melb |
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| Madness Guru Joined: 08/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2498 |
Mark, just bought 24 250 watt panels today for $1,000, 100% identical to another 20 I have already. The guy is going to deliver them for me, beats running down the hill, especially when you consider that is around 500KG in total! There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. |
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| renewableMark Guru Joined: 09/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1678 |
Yeah, that's a good deal delivered, they really are a pain to handle. I have to unbolt a toolbox from my tray to move them and I bloody hate doing that, as it is wired with 4x agm's which hook up to the caravan for extra power storage. I still have 20 hidden around the side of the house the wife doesn't know I bought yet. Have 7500w total so far, reckon that may be enough, hopefully won't need to buy more. VERY jealous of the deals going on up in QLD and NSW, we mexicans just don't see deals like that here. Not sure why, the number of installs just must be a lot less?? Cheers Caveman Mark Off grid eastern Melb |
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| Madness Guru Joined: 08/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2498 |
I am up to 15.5KW with these but I am going to sell 8 180 watt ones, I would not have even bothered with these except they are the same as the 20 so I can combine them any way I want. They will end up connected to another 5KW GTI so I will have 2 of them but they will be limited to 5KW total being backfed via the off-grid inverter. They will be able to make more power to drive any loads during the day. The reason for the limit is to not overload the off-grid inverter and keep battery charge current to a safe maximum. There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. |
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Tinker Guru Joined: 07/11/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1904 |
I was wondering about that power relationship between the inverters. Logic tells me that the master inverter (which gets powered from the battery bank) should be more powerful than a slave grid tie inverter connected to it. That is what's the case when a grid tie inverter is connected to a public grid. But, does it matter with our private grid arrangements? For example, mad's 6+KW two stack inverter is powering his house. Could he backfeed it safely from 2 x 5KW GTI's? I don't know, does anybody? Klaus |
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| Phil23 Guru Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
Don't suppose he has any left? Figure you are around 3 hour drive away, but could have that totally wrong. |
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| Madness Guru Joined: 08/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2498 |
I have had the 2 GTI's running but not at full power, one had 5KW of panels on it and the other 1.5. They were quite happy running like that with my 8KW off-grid. Quite often the off-grid inverter is not powering the house at all, it is controlling the frequency and taking excess power from the GTI's and putting that energy into the battery. But I am not going to attempt back feeding 10KW. The GTI's I have can be limited in how much power they export in this case export is via the OGI to the battery bank. Apart from the Inverters limits the battery won't last long with a 200A plus charge. So I will cap it at 5KW, whatever loads are running will not reduce that 5 KW if there is sufficient sunlight. Sorry Phil I am not aware of any other panels ATM, you just need to keep an eye on Gumtree. This fellow had them advertised for $50 each but sold 0, at first he was not prepared to do a deal for the lot but after a few days and none sold he came around to my offer. I am on the Sunshine Coast. There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. |
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| George65 Guru Joined: 18/09/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 308 |
My latest score yesterday was much more modest. 12x 175 Panels plus 2 Kw inverter, rails, wiring and disconnects for $200. It was advertised as a 1.75 system and I didn't even count the panels till I got home and realised it was a full 2KW set. The rails also had the tin roof mountings which I need to install the 20 x 250s I bought the other week on the north side of the house. No rush, need to get the new HD circuit installed before I can use them anyway. I'll take this set up to my father and put them on his shed roof. There won't be a lot of generation with them morning and afternoon but the peak window should be clear. Will be enough to put a dent in his power bill anyway. There are some really ridiculous asking prices for setups going atm. How people can expect to get their stupid asking prices when there are ads for the same size systems above and below theirs for 1/3rd the price is beyond me. I messaged a guy yesterday that has had an ad on for 6 weeks asking stupid money. made him a reasonable offer and was told he wasn't giving them away. I think he ought to give them a name so he knows who to address the Christmas card to when he finds they have become part of the family. Where you located Phil? I got onto some cheap panels in northern NSW the other week. Somehow misread the location and thought they were near me in sydney. If You are interested, I'll see if I can find the ad and let you know. They were cheap, just too far away from me. I think the guy had 16 or 20. If he'd have had 50 I would have been taking a trip north. |
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| Madness Guru Joined: 08/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2498 |
The way you're going George the sun is going to start getting bloody dim with all those panels you're putting up. There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. |
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