Starting location, with safe-digging marks by Underground Service Alert
Steel frame assembly
Concrete footings poured
Mounting Enphase microinverters (some shifted away from fountain to comply with building code)
Mounting Sanyo solar panels
More panels
Finished solar system 7560 watts STC/DC 6701 watts CEC/AC 36 Sanyo HIP-210 panels Enphase microinverters
Starting view from balcony
Frame installed
Finished system
Starting location
Marks for trench to property line
Path for conduit along property line
Crossing from property line to pool house electrical panel
Pool house electrical panel (Gas pipe to pool heater discouraged underground trenching)
Footing holes dug three feet deep, covered overnight
Redwoods pruned back to avoid shading solar panels
Trencher (Challenging to get this heavy machine from the driveway to the lower field)
Trench for electrical conduit
Trench to property line
Frame inserted into footing holes
Frame alignment
Frame braced in alignment
Electrical box installed
Electrical conduit installed in trench
Electrical conduit installed to property line junction box
Electrical conduit along property line
Concrete mixer
Finished scaffold to hold frame in alignment for concrete pouring
Concrete footings
Concrete footing with tube form
Electrical box mounted to 4x4
Microinverter attached to frame
Cables from microinverters, ready to connect to each other and to solar panels
Connected microinverters
Solar panels delivered on a pallet
Solar panels unpacked and tested
Solar panels mounted on frame
Electrical boxes with grounding wire
Trench filled
Junction box mounted to 4x4
Conduit crossing from property line to pool house
Conduit crossing from property line
Conduit mounted to 4x4
Conduit crossing mounted to 4x4
Conduit crossing to pool house
Finished solar panel array
Finished array viewed from east side
Finished array viewed from west side
Finished array viewed from rear
Solar panel label
Microinverters
Microinverter label
Electrical switch box with warning labels
Electrical switch box, with nine solar panels per 10 amp dual-pole circuit breaker
Junction box with warning label
Conduit along property line with warning label
Conduit crossing with warning label
Pool house electrical panel with warning label
Pool house electrical panel with 40 amp dual-pole circuit breaker
Enphase Envoy collects data from each inverter over power line (white cable), then sends data to Internet (orange cable)
All 36 panels active, making 6549 watts of power, for a cumulative total of 11 kWh of energy (so far!)
Ethernet over powerline from pool house to garage, connecting to Internet
Main electrical panel with warning labels
Main electrical panel with 60 amp dual-pole circuit breaker
Main electrical meter, running backwards
Net negative power of 5066 watts, heading towards the grid (balancing positive consumption during nights and cloudy weather)
