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Updated Solar Quote
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Hear me out here..
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Ok, hear me out. I may be way off here but I feel that mainstream America's mentality on solar is in the same stage as it was in the late 70's when home computers came out. I live in a small city, less than 100,000 people but we deal with almost 5 million tourists a year so we are kinda metro. I live in the downtown area. After dealing with my power company raking me over with $750 a month bills I looked into solar. After getting $40k to 50k quotes for just panels connected to the grid I did some digging. After all I installed a victron system on my sailboat and it worked fine, I can do this. Well after all was said and done I installed a system in my home that had a ton of batteries and allowed me to just ditch the power company. For the same price I got quotes I installed 16kW of solar and 130kWh of lifepo4 batteries and have not looked back. The thing I can't wrap my head around is how the city inspectors, engineers and others are truly shocked I was able to install my system myself.i feel the mentality of Americans is that solar and batteries are so complex that they can only have an installer do the job. Is it installers that basically triple the cost of a system with installs that market fear, the industry as a whole that has instilled into people's heads that it's illegal in some way to install your own, I'm at a loss as to why I get the reactions I do. I feel like I did in 1979 when I wrote a basic program on my TI99/4a and all the adults thought I deserved a noble prize. Thoughts guys??
Top Comment: You're basically correct. Learning how to perform physical work skills is the best possible defense against your job being made obsolete, because our modern society severely encourages soft skills and esoterica over actual practical application.
75k+ for Solar!! Is this what people are paying by in VA?
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Recently got a quote for about 30 panels from ION Solar. Was very shocked at the amount of money it would take. Is this the typical price? Located near Front Royal (Warren County).
Top Comment: I would look at reviews for ION at places like r/solar . You'll see 'highway robbery' pop up and all sorts of shady things. I don't trust any company that relies on door-to-door sales pitches.
[Donghua] Artefato Selado
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Question about Lord Solar leading Rough Riders
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Hi all! Im building my astra militarum army up for 10th edition after being gone for a while, and I want 10 Rough riders and a lord solar leontus in my army. Would it be better to have the lord solar lead a squad of 5 Rough riders and then have a separate squad of 5, or to combine them all into one squad of ten? What are your recommendations?
Top Comment: The ability to attach Lord Solar to Rough Riders is straight up a trap, without a Command Squad+Infantry Squad combo, his Order range drops to six inches, from his model, it straight up doesn't work. Lord Solar is also fairly fragile, T4 with a +4 invuln save and 8 wounds and so are the Rough Rider, combine that with the size of the model and he'll be dead the moment your opponent directs some shooting at him, even worse if a charges goes off. Don't do it.