Pardon the stock image. It won’t let me post without one. Curious if anyone here has built or researched a diy balcony solar setup. I’m new to solar, so this seems like a good small scale project to learn on.
If you have built one, what equipment did you use? How did you decide on panel wattage?
Balcony solar that is grid tied is probably not something you want to DIY. The amount of power you can generate probably wouldnt be worth the hoops you’d need to jump through. That’s not including using the smart inverters that plug in (cause that’s not really “diy”).
Off grid balcony solar isnt super hard. If you have an all-in-one charge controller/battery/inverter (jackery, goal zero, and a million others), you just plug the panels right into it, and you can pull power out the other side with no trouble. That’s also debatably “diy”. Getting a little more advanced than that still isnt too hard.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/12/how-to-build-a-small-solar-power-system/
Personally, I have a goalzero power station and 300W of panels. I wish I had done a little more research before buying the goalzero, cause I probably would have gone a different route (LFP battery, not NMC) because I care way more about charge cycles than energy density.