Why is www.sunesolar.com so much cheaper then other solar panel places?
Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at
8:47 am
Seems like no matter where I look everywhere is more expensive for certain panels and products how do they manage to sell them so cheap are they really factory direct or wholesale or do there products come second hand?
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well, let’s look. the first few i looked at were too small to do anything. around the 2nd page i found the first that would be somewhat viable candidates for any real use. for example:
<<Sunsei SE-16000 260-Watt 16.5-Volt Solar Panel $1,999.99>>
keep in mind, an average house uses 1-2-3 kw.
solar panels only generate significantly 6 hours a day, less in the winter.
so you’ll need 20-40-60 of these to power a house.
for 40, that’s $80,000.
is that the "cheap" you were talking about?
and, you haven’t gotten into the electronics, and cost thereof, to hook up your panels to the utility grid so you can use their electricity at night.
oh, btw, you’ll need to change 16.5 volts into 110, so you’ll need 7 in series to get 115 volts, which, if you’re using them at home is what you want. and i’m not sure how well they work when connected in series like that. it’s certainly not guaranteed.
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Not sure, but you can build them yourself.
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Try shopping around a little more. Take for example, that site’s
Sunforce 39810 SHARP Polycrystalline Solar Kit – 80W for $450.51. That works out to about $5.60/watt.
According to the SolarBuzz industry group http://www.solarbuzz.com/Moduleprices.htm , the *average* price of large panels in the USA is now $4.56.
The survey is an average price. At a place like Sun Electric http://sunelec.com/ , you can find panels such as the SUN-A-195-fa2, 195-watt panel, for $464, which works out to about $2.38/W . That’s over twice the power for about the same money.