Miscommunication Oops!

Well folks, we had a minor setback. Yesterday the SolarCity folks were supposed to meet with the Mission Viejo building inspector to get the final city approval. Apparently the two of them had a miscommunication and the SolarCity guy was early, he labeled the system with all the warning labels, and other required stickers. He hung out for a while, and then said he was going to leave. Of course, ten minutes later, the building inspector showed up. He checked what he could on the ground, but since we don't have a ladder which reaches up to the roof, he had to call it a day.

I'm hoping that SolarCity and the Inspector can get a new time worked out so we can get this system online.

Installation Complete!

SolarCity had a team member out today who wrapped up the final details.  He turned the system on to test it and showed my wife the meter running backwards.  Unfortunately that's all that we could do until the inspection comes through. I uploaded a new video and a picture to the site.

I'll keep you posted on the next few steps!

Video here.

Quick Update

So, they wrapped up putting the panels on the house today.  They said that they were going to send one person out tomorrow to paint the flashing to match the roof and replace a fuse which was bad in the inverter.  If this happens, I'll take pictures tomorrow and update the blog again.

It's been a long process, but I believe that we're getting to the end.  The next fun will come once it goes online and I'll be able to see that first SCE bill.

I've got some panels!

Monday Update:

Well, the SolarCity employees were here again today.  They made some real progress.  I've added pictures and a new movie to my gallery. 

Here's one picture just for good measures. :)

They still have 6 panels to install and haven't run the cables from the roof through the conduit to the inverter, but hopefully they'll wrap up tomorrow, and then the next waiting game starts with the city (to approve the work) then SCE to do the inspection and possibly swap meters.

Let's hurry up and wait!

Wednesday Update

Well, more progress today, the got more of the flashing's up and started to get the rails ready.  They also finished the conduit on the side of the house and ran it up through the eves of the house. It looks really clean.

I've added a new movie of how the roof looks, along with more pictures. 

The gave my wife an update that they were going to need to cut the existing tiles and put slide them into place in front of the existing roof standoffs, and that this would need to push the install completion date out to Monday.  I had thought the original plans took this into account the whole time, I'm a little surprised they hadn't planned on this already, especially since looking at things now you can tell it might be a problem if there was wind and rain.

Now I'm hopeful that they're going to get everything sealed up by Friday since our highly accurate (cough, cough) weather people are predicting rain for Saturday.  I don't need a leaky roof.

Check out the latest pictures and movie here: 

http://paulnp.smugmug.com/Solar/618000

All for now.