Residential 5.5 kW Solar Grid-Tied System & Solar Thermal Hot Water & Air Heating System
Syracuse Indiana, August 2009
The solar PV system powers this Lake Wawasee house and the solar thermal system heats the water and the home. This passionate homeowner considers his home itself to be a second storage system, besides the water tank itself. He will let it heat up on sunny days and store up in the tank, then let it coast back down. He likes to treat it as a "lab," monitoring his generation and output data online and figures out how to optimize the system. His goal is to have a zero-carbon house. He also says that it is important to cut down usage and make sure everything is efficient, and then bring in solar!
The system includes 26 Kyocera 210 Watt solar modules, a Sunny Boy 7000US Inverter, Sunny Boy SensorBox and WebBox systems monitor, five Apricus solar collectors, a Quietside flash heater, a water pump and Equinox residential tank.
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