Good question! It’s 12,800 W DC, and 11,031 W AC. I used AC because when we were sold the system, it was sold as an 11 kW system. It’s also how it’s listed on Sullivan’s site. Would this explain the difference? Not sure how everyone else quoted theirs.
You’re probably right, OCR. If I calculate it based on the DC wattage, it’s more in line with everyone else’s numbers.
Sorry for the confusion, all.
Darn! I was hoping we’d be #1. :)[/quote]
Wow, that’s a huge system! 40 panels?! Did you cover your entire roof? 🙂
I’m surprised Sullivan would advertise and sell in AC, given the rest of the industry all sell in DC and therefore it would appear they would have a pricing disadvantage.[/quote]
Yes, it’s a huge system, but we have the dual pool pump issue — can’t fix that without tearing everything out of the concrete, according to what we were told. Before we moved into this house, we were working on it for a few months and the SDG&E bill on this house when it was empty was about the same as the one for our other house where we were living around the corner; the pool pumps seem to be the culprit, and we will be changing the main pump to a variable speed one when it gives up the ghost.
And after almost two decades of no A/C (we would drive around in our air conditioned car for hours on hot days, which gave us lots of time to look at real estate over those years), we finally got it when we bought this house and use it quite a bit…okay, we use it a lot. Our solar system was designed to cover ~100% of our usage.
