My Solar PV Installation "Book"/Website - Residential/Tile Roof

sisolartech
sisolartech Registered Users Posts: 1
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Hi everyone,

I recently put up a 4kW DC microinverter PV system on my tiled roof. I wrote a book/website documenting everything.

Planning
Component Section
Permitting/Drawings
Bill of Materials with pricing
Code/Rules/Guidelines
Installation - Roofing
Installation - Wiring
Installation - Grounding
Pictures of every step

Plus a lot more! It's strictly free/non-commercial but it is not meant to be a How-To guide. Just purely for personal use. :)

It is highly based on NEC 2011 and any rules/guidelines specific to California.


I found this forum useful and am doing this to return something to the community.

http://sites.google.com/site/sitechsolar/


Moderators: I am new to forum, apologies if this posting violated any rules about promoting exterior sites. There was just too much info to put into a multi-post thread. Please delete this thread if such rules are indeed violated.
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  • Cariboocoot
    Cariboocoot Banned Posts: 17,615 ✭✭✭
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    Re: My Solar PV Installation "Book"/Website - Residential/Tile Roof

    Welcome to the forum.

    We only forbid commercial sites (people trying to sell stuff/scams), not personal ones.

    Always interested in individuals' adventures in solar. :D
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  • DanS26
    DanS26 Solar Expert Posts: 269 ✭✭✭
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    Re: My Solar PV Installation "Book"/Website - Residential/Tile Roof

    You are a true DIY'er.

    Congrats on a successful install.

    Your documentation will help many more solar DIY'ers than you will know.
    23.16kW Kyocera panels; 2 Fronius 7.5kW inverters; Nyle hot water; Steffes ETS; Great Lakes RO; Generac 10kW w/ATS, TED Pro System monitoring
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  • westbranch
    westbranch Solar Expert Posts: 5,183 ✭✭✭✭
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    Re: My Solar PV Installation "Book"/Website - Residential/Tile Roof

    looks good, the parts viewed.

    One observation, there are a lot of pics rotated 90* rather than vertical. Was this a program restriction, it seems to take away from a good activity log.

    hth
     
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  • sdold
    sdold Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭✭
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    Re: My Solar PV Installation "Book"/Website - Residential/Tile Roof
    sisolartech wrote: »
    Hi everyone,

    I recently put up a 4kW DC microinverter PV system on my tiled roof. I wrote a book/website documenting everything.

    http://sites.google.com/site/sitechsolar/


    Moderators: I am new to forum, apologies if this posting violated any rules about promoting exterior sites. There was just too much info to put into a multi-post thread. Please delete this thread if such rules are indeed violated.

    I've been trying to find a way to thank you ever since I stumbled onto your site about 6 months ago. Thanks to your information, my plans have just been approved and I will begin installing the tile hooks this week. You have no idea how much your site helped me. Thanks for mentioning this web site and forum on your site, too, I just joined here about ten minutes ago, I wish I had found this site earlier, too.

    Steve, Dixon CA
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