Cost of adding solaredge to an existing system

Techoid

Really helpful comments, thank you all. I will go back to the salesman with these figures and see what he says- it does seem he has been rather over optimistic in his prediction, so I am going to ask him to justify his calculations in writing.

Techoid

The replacement cost of my inverter should it go wrong was one of his selling points, but they gave me a 20 year guarantee on it anyway when first installed! He also suggested I could sell the original one on eBay for £200 pounds or so- I haven't looked to see how feasible that is yet.
What a helpful forum this is, I shall be spending more time here!

Martyn1981

Techoid wrote: »

The replacement cost of my inverter should it go wrong was one of his selling points, but they gave me a 20 year guarantee on it anyway when first installed! He also suggested I could sell the original one on eBay for £200 pounds or so- I haven't looked to see how feasible that is yet.
What a helpful forum this is, I shall be spending more time here!

Hiya, the £200 figure sounds fair. I looked into it when I was having a ponder, mine were probably worth £100 + £250 at the time, less now as they are out of warranty. They are SunnyBoys.

TBH if you have a 20yr guarantee, I think that's the final nail in the coffin of this deal, as you seem to have reasonable generation, and decent future cover on the one component that is likely/possible to fail during the first 20yrs.

Fun fact - as I know a few people who sold their inverters on E-Bay. Anyone thinking of doing this, plan ahead before it's disonnected. Then take a 'proof of life' style photo of the inverter still working, with a newspaper (or something to prove the date), and ideally with the number of kWhs showing.

In this way for example Techoid could show that it works, and hasn't done a lot of work.