I am considering a purchase.
What are some of your thoughts about Sunelectric folks? Honest?
They don't like credit cards. Sometimes a credit card is a saver if a sale goes bad.
Are the panels of Sun 170/180 Good ones?

How about the Evergreen 170 A or B models?

My experiance with SunElec is positive, the Sun 170/180's are private labeled Evergreens that are seconds. GREAT panels and a great deal

Unless your buying panels for wall art, the SunElec panels are a much better $$ to watt value. I beleive others here have also bought and installed the Sun 170's

As to credit cards, SunElec sells at such a steep discount, the 2+% merchant fee is a signifigant cost to expect them to cover on a large purchase ( Just try buying a car on a credit card )

I'm sure they will take the card but might want you to cover the fee

Thanks for the information. it will be helpful as I am considering an addition to what I have already. What might be the best inverter. I am presently on a grid tie situation using a Sunnyboy.

Inverter : Grid tie or for your household use ?

Will you be keeping your current PV's & sunnyboy, and adding a new batch of PV's and a new inverter ?

What's the new PV array size ?

What's the existing PV array you might want to convert ?

I presently have a residential grid-tie of 1920 Watts. I will not add to the existing unit but another with either 14 -170's or 14 -180's or 16 -160's. I want approx 2500 more watts.
They are now on a tracker, 16- 120's. I will use another tracker I think for the additional units.
Thanks for your help.

well for $$ per watt and included feaures nothing beats the Xantrex GT series for gridtie, they also now have 10 year standard warranty.

Sunnyboy is a good unit, but more $$ without any real reason for the end user. In your case it would be to have similar units if you cared about that

Doakes,
I just bought 6 Evergreen 180 panels from Sunelectric out of Miami, and am impressed.
I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was concerned about the freight and damage. They came in on a really good pallet in perfect shape, and quite fast too.

-Rick-

Glad to hear a good report. I check into the tax rebate from the Fed. and my PCA said that I could get 30% return up to $2000. and then 15-20 depreciation.
I have not yet decided.
Have a good one.
Dave

i have bought from sun ,the panels i have are the 190's as for the credit card....they do take paypal which if you have an ebay account as most people do today and paypal is as secure as it gets
there is a record you can print out also
my experience with the guys at sun is also positive...as john kimball does know his solar my opinion

I bought 12 Evergreen 180 B panels, XW6048, remote panel, and XW MPPT solar charger from them... no probs other than waiting for Xantrex to ship the XW charge controller to them to ship out to me. All arrived safely in a timely manner and good customer service provided. I wouldn't hesitate to get more panels from them..(soon, I'll get 6 more..) hopefully.