Wylie, TX - 11.76kW solar system with 28x 420W Silfab Bifacial solar panels, Enphase IQ8HC microinverters, 2x FranklinWH aPower2 batteries, SPAN Panel, and SPAN Level 2 EV Charger.
This system was installed July of 2025. It’s been running like a champ ever since.
I would have posted this one a long time ago but soon after I took the pics someone decided my drone should become their drone 😑
Fairly straightforward install solar wise. Homeowner wanted some extras along with it. And why not when you can get 30% off a SPAN panel.
Wylie allows for batteries to be on the ground. Lord bless them for that. Although we failed inspection because the SPAN panel cover didn’t lay flat enough against the circuits. The inspector said “some one could stick something in between here…” as he proceeded to stick his pen in the gap and poked a circuit.
You have to pick your battles and I didn’t feel it going my way if I argued. I just thought it extraordinarily weird he’d say it was a hazard *and then did the thing he thought was a hazardous action*. …but whatever. He said I just needed to send him a picture of it with minimal gap and we’d call it square. SPAN panels do not have nearly as much room as common breaker boxes FYI.
The Silfab panels looked really cool up close but you can’t really tell from more than 10 feet away 🫤. They’re also longer than a lot of other panels and we may or may not have been an inch too far in the setback on a small section of the roof 🤫
There is a lot of data and control between the solar, aGate, and SPAN panel. It’s pretty neat what can be done. It’s really owning *and* controlling your power.
Homeowner is awesome. We stay in contact fairly regularly. We went for a ride in their new Polestar SUV as I’m toying with the idea of making the switch. They currently have 3 EVs and it’s really cool they power them all from solar.
They’ve got some plans for expansion to their system in the future. With one more battery and a few extra panels they could effectively be off-grid. They do peruse this subreddit and they’re free to chime in if they choose. Otherwise I’ve shared enough of their setup.
Thanks for reading.