The controller to go with those Evergreen panels was over $500. The voltage is also a little high for a 24/48 volt system. That may be why they use them mostly to run grid-tie systems.
Sun Electronics has 28 kwatts of panels on the roof and batteries with inverters for cloudy days. With all the tall buildings around them (the owner of Sun won't sell the property) I'm suprised they get enough sun.
That part of Miami has been rebuilt and cleaned up. I hadn't been there in 20 years. All the public housing projects are gone, and with them the drug dealers, hookers and homeless. There is a homeless shelter now in the old arena not far from there. The roads are confusing even for the locals. I made a right instead of a left onto US 1 and had to backtrack to get to Sun's building. I then drove past it and almost went over the causeway before making a u-turn and looked up to see their name on the building.
Downtown Miami has a sterile feel to it now, but I would feel safe on foot there now. The drivers were polite and there were people on foot and bicycles even though it had been raining most of the day. It was kind of strange not to see any crack whores walking where 1-95 drops down onto Biscayne. They used to be pretty brazen about it.
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