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Old 06-02-2012, 07:19 PM   #26
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Default Re: who amongst us have gone solar

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Originally Posted by buggerlugs
Got solar hot water . It is great. But you need a booster switch if you have a few rainy days in a row, as a back up. Wish I had got solar hot water years ago. Cost $2500 after rebates. 2 adults , 3 kids who all love long showers !!
so do you leave it on all the time or just boost as necessary!

last I looked into it the price, from memory, was around the $3,500 gas boosted

the reason i'm asking is if we swap our power supply across to origin we will be able to pay for our gas bill and buy a solar hot water system from the infeed credits of the solar array

at the moment we will just have a useless credit (I think) unless i pay tax on it which I don't want to do.....may as well use the excess power generated to pay for something
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