Solar PV deck
The year 2013 will be memorable for our installation of solar PV cells on our home. We had discussed going solar two years before we made the call to Southern Energy Management to get it done. In March we signed the contract and, once the permits were obtained, the panels went up in May.
We had a few bumps at the beginning when our inverter malfunctioned. The inverter is the heart of a PV system and ours would frequently send a jolt of overvoltage into our home wiring. After SEM came out and replaced the inverter everything has been working fine. Things have been running so smoothly we tend to forget that we’re a power station.
I blogged about my experiences with solar PV, which led to my friend Scott Huler pointing his Scientific American blog readers to my site. I enjoyed the attention and the extra blog traffic!
Our system doesn’t cover our complete electricity needs but it’s great to be reducing our footprint as much as we are.