I covered my Powerwall set up in a previous post here – https://www.teslastraya.com/?p=45 and I thought it might be a good idea to post a follow up on my solar system that’s actually feeding energy into my two Powerwall 2’s.

When I started looking at solar in 2016, I’ll admit that I was a little confused as to all the different panel types, inverter types, whether to go a string system versus microinverters, did I want monitoring of my system or wireless connectivity? These are just a few of the questions that were running through my head.

In the end, I opted for a microinverter based system from Enphase Energy. I really liked the idea of the system being modular (this proves more important down the track!), covered me in the event of the neighbours trees starting to shade panels, safer AC cabling running through my roof as opposed to DC and the per panel level monitoring system just to name a few of the reasons. With the modular based system, I’ve expanded upon this system twice since the initial installation:

• Original install – September 2016 – 20 x 260w Trina Honey panels on 20 x Enphase M215 micro-inverters. 5.2 kW of panels on 4.3 kW of inverters
• First upgrade – August 2017 – 12 x 275w Trina Honey panels on 12 x Enphase S230 micro-inverters. 3.3kW of panels on 2.76kW of inverters
• Second upgrade – May 2018 – 12x 275w Trina Honey panels on 12 Enphase S270 micro-inverters. 3.3kW of panels on 3.24kW of inverters
• This gives me a total of 11.8kW of panels on 10.3kW of inverters

I hope this post has been beneficial to you, if you’re looking at getting solar and want to know a little more about Enphase feel free to add some comments down below.

Thanks for reading!