For the Do-It-Yourselfer (DIY)

Are you:

• Technically inclined?
  
• Good with your hands?
  
• Careful to read the documentation thoroughly and completely BEFORE beginning a project?

Then you might be ready to build your own solar electricity system, and we can help by providing you with all the equipment you'll need at discounts below list price, as well as advice on how to design and install your own equipment. You'll have to be:

• Comfortable with heights (most installations go on top of one to two story roofs)
• Good with your hands (finding the rafters under existing roofing material, making water-tight penetrations with lagbolts, securing the mounting hardware to the roof, attaching modules to the mounting hardware, attaching high voltage wiring and ground wiring to each module while it's a live power producing piece of equipment, running conduit and wiring to the switches and inverters below)
• Careful with live, ultra high voltage (500+ volts DC)
• Meticulous with labeling positive from negative so that polarity errors don't permanently short out the inverter
• Great at paperwork (the CEC and PG&E stack of forms is easily an inch thick)
• Ready to deal with building and planning departments who may be quite unfamiliar with solar or wind electricity
  
• Able to install everything in a way that passes muster with both the local inspector (also possibly unfamiliar) as well as PG&E's field crew and their technical requirements
  
• Willing to perform your own warranty repair if needed

If you can pass that test, you're ready to join the "DIY solar electric corps", and we'll help get you enlisted! Call us today for pricing on all the needed component parts. (Note that your discount will not be as low as it would be if you have us install it - that just makes economic sense for us, since we are not positioned as a "parts-only" retailer.)