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It must be that chinese translator thing, like instruction manuals
that just confuse

 

You apologize for responding in your only response????


Thank you for the advice.  I'm sorry that I had accidently responded to the
group.

Steve McGrew

 

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:20:49 -0600, "McGrew Brothers Farm"


A friend just purchased some 205W panels from Sun Electronics' Phoenix
location. He's going to pick them up, and the price was $1.74 per watt
(plus AZ sales tax presumably). No UL certification, but most
off-gridders don't care about that. A different friend also purchased
some a few months back at a similar price. It seems that Sun
occasionally gets a few thousand they can price that low, and they
sell out quickly.

To anyone ordering panels or other heavy stuff like batteries from
anywhere: shop for your own shipping if you don't like the vendor's
carrier's rates. You can sometimes get a better price on truck freight
if you have the shipment delivered to a depot for pickup, as opposed
to having it delivered to your door. Depots tend to have at least one
ground-level door, and the staff routinely helps people transfer loads
into a pickup or whatever.

Wayne

 



Shipping on panels and batteries is tough.  I can tell you that Sun Electronics
is a real store, that really seems to have the stuff that they advertise.  Other
than that, you are on your own!

They are a busy place.  Their main business does not seem to be folks like us,
but to exotic places in the Caribbean and to South America where the grid is a
vague dream.  Much Spanish is spoken there!  It is a busy place & it is
sometimes frustratingly hard to get the sales folk off the phone long enough to
actually talk to you.  I have purchased one generator and one PV panel from them
over the years.  Fortunately I live within 100 miles of their Miami store so
shipping is not an issue.

Vaughn