Solar Panel and Battery

[dwh]

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Thanks for that. I'm always interested. Skimmed for now, will read later when I have time to digest it and follow the links.

$10/watt? I dunno what the exchange rate is but even last year we could get normal mono or poly modules here for 2-3/watt. I saw one place selling a pair of 100w panels along with a Morningstar 15a MPPT for ~$500 USD.

So, to me anyway, $10/watt is WAY more than I'd ever want to pay for PV modules - even those extremely cool bulletproof stick-ons.

Now...if I could get them for 4.50/watt that's in the ballpark.

[whatcharterboat]

$10/watt? I dunno what the exchange rate is but even last year we could get normal mono or poly modules here for 2-3/watt. I saw one place selling a pair of 100w panels along with a Morningstar 15a MPPT for ~$500 USD.

So, to me anyway, $10/watt is WAY more than I'd ever want to pay for PV modules - even those extremely cool bulletproof stick-ons.

Now...if I could get them for 4.50/watt that's in the ballpar

Man, we are so ripped off in Australia with taxes and duties etc. With the strong AuD at the moment ($1Aud = $1.02 USD), all the new new Chinese panels coming into the country and the increased competition from the Solar Grid Connect industry, prices here have come down a little over the past 12 months but certainly not as much as they should. Not even close. Someone's making a killing.

It's probably more like $8.50 to $9.00 per watt average for poly/mono solar here now. BTW Stick-on Amorphous are around the same price too.

a pair of 100w panels along with a Morningstar 15a MPPT for ~$500 USD.

>> we would pay $400 AuD ($408 USD) just for a Morningstar 15a MPPT by itself. That's the one they'd probably be offering with 2 x 100watt panels. Here's one online from a reputable company down the road from me. If you walked in and bought it over the counter, it would probably be more. >>> http://www.watts2c.com.au/index.php/...uct-flyer.html

We know how much the retail shops pay for stuff too cause we on sell solar ourselves and there's no profit in there for the retailers either. It just sucks.