Andy writes: Thanks Harry. Your experience with wide ranging aspects of buildings has put you in a good position for taking care of your own stuff... In the US, there are regions like New England where there is an attitude that is radically different than in more southern states like Texas...Only in the larger cities, like Dallas, do the regulations seem similar.... I live in a wilderness area about 100 miles south of Dallas, and we don't have many restrictions. Of course, if we burn our own house down, we have ourselves to blame :>)))....
Those on this newsgroup that try to make the task sound like some big deal have probably never heard of Heathkit, which sold kits for homebuilders from receivers/transmitters to color televisions for many decades. As a youth, I put togheter several kits of signal generators and transmitters. Even a non-trained lawyer, doctor, plumber, or dental hygienist could build their own color television (in 1960) if they just followed the directions and checked their own work.... That's the environment I was brought up in.... and believe me, a PV array is child's play compared to an NTSC color television.... Actually, Heathkit's first kit was an airplane, which any reasonably intelligent bicycle mechanic could put together and fly.......It all depends on the integrity of the design and the completeness of the directions... Well, good luck and thanks again for the rundown of your system.... It seems that you are getting a much better deal from your government than we are over here, tho the rebates that some posters claim are pretty good.......
However, I'll keep my 50K in the bank and pay my 10.5cents per kwh . :>))))
Andy in Eureka, Texas .