Does installation of Solar Panels at home affect the quality of eletrical power?

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siitech

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Receiving many sales calls on installing solar panels, I know very little about the prodedure, wondering if the addition of solar power has any impact on the quality of home electric power for audio system?
 
siitech said:
Receiving many sales calls on installing solar panels, I know very little about the prodedure, wondering if the addition of solar power has any impact on the quality of home electric power for audio system?
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I don't know too much about it either. I can say though, that in theory it should not have any negative effect. Essentially, they are storage units for eledtrical energy, reducing the on-grid use and expense. Be aware though that the "tax write-off" is not as high as it was before and may have disappeared completely, I'm not sure. You might want to check into that.
 
siitech said:
Receiving many sales calls on installing solar panels, I know very little about the prodedure, wondering if the addition of solar power has any impact on the quality of home electric power for audio system?
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Looking at the quality of your gear list, I'm guessing you can afford to incorporate a power regenerator or similar into your system. That would emphatically result in "no". ;) Didn't see that coming did you :)
 
MusicDirector said:
I don't know too much about it either. I can say though, that in theory it should not have any negative effect. Essentially, they are storage units for eledtrical energy, reducing the on-grid use and expense. Be aware though that the "tax write-off" is not as high as it was before and may have disappeared completely, I'm not sure. You might want to check into that.
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A grid tied solar system is not a storage device! It feeds excess power back into the grid, with your meter running backwards. In most systems, there is no storage whatsoever and thus if the grid goes down, you're dead in the water! I have had a 6.5KW grid tied system for 4 years. My previous $3600/year electric bill has been close to zero since. With the price of panels today, government incentives are not as necessary as before. The The break even point on payback is dependant on your local cost of electricity in $/kwh. If you live where it's cheap (less than $0.10/kwh) it may not make sense. In California, 2nd highest rates in the country, it can be as high as $0.50/kwh, but averages about $0.25/kwh.

No sonic effect on my very revealing audio system, with no power conditioning.
 
Thank you all for the input. We have plenty of sun here in California, the idea of having a solar system is attractive to me. Just want to make sure there is no negative effect on the audio system.
 
My solar has been running since August. The only negative effect is PG&E is getting no money from me. Thanks to my Pass Labs X600.5 amps they were getting a lot of money from me before I installed solar.
 
It would not hurt too when explaining to wife why the system is on 24 hours a day when burnning in a pair of mono blocks.
 
MtnHam said:
A grid tied solar system is not a storage device! It feeds excess power back into the grid, with your meter running backwards. In most systems, there is no storage whatsoever and thus if the grid goes down, you're dead in the water! I have had a 6.5KW grid tied system for 4 years. My previous $3600/year electric bill has been close to zero since. With the price of panels today, government incentives are not as necessary as before. The The break even point on payback is dependant on your local cost of electricity in $/kwh. If you live where it's cheap (less than $0.10/kwh) it may not make sense. In California, 2nd highest rates in the country, it can be as high as $0.50/kwh, but averages about $0.25/kwh.

No sonic effect on my very revealing audio system, with no power conditioning.
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When I mentioned "storage device" I was talking about the principle of how solar panels operate, not the end result. (I guess people jumping on me due to not understanding is the price I pay for being more phyiscal science oriented towards devices than meta or psudo-science oriented).
The fact that it feeds excess power back into the grid (installed to operate that way) is the best reason ever to go solar....the money savings over time!
 
MusicDirector said:
When I mentioned "storage device" I was talking about the principle of how solar panels operate, not the end result. (I guess people jumping on me due to not understanding is the price I pay for being more phyiscal science oriented towards devices than meta or psudo-science oriented).
The fact that it feeds excess power back into the grid (installed to operate that way) is the best reason ever to go solar....the money savings over time!
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There is a common misunderstanding about grid-tied solar systems that I was addressing. I look at my utility company (PG&E) as my battery bank. They supply my energy needs at night and bleak winter days. That's when electricity rates are at their lowest! Having a bank of batteries large enough to provide for those times would probably mean an additional investment of about $10,000, and would have a life of about 10 years, and would need to be amortized over that time, not a very cost effective option. If I lived off-grid, it would make sense. Letting PG&E be my battery bank is just fine! BTW, when I sell my excess electricity to them on summer afternoons, it is at their highest rate! The energy I buy is at their lowest rate.
 
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