Full-roof Jinko arrays and Sigenergy or GoodWe batteries for the 1960s and 70s brick veneers of Dandenong North, laid out for the slope of your street and sized for the day the ducted gas heater is replaced. Installed by our own A-Grade electricians.
Dandenong North was laid out in the 1960s and 70s as a suburb of family homes, and it still is one. The standard house between Stud Road and Heatherton Road is a single-storey brick veneer with a hipped tile roof, three or four bedrooms and a block big enough for a shed and a lemon tree. Those roofs are generous and uncomplicated, which makes them good for solar.
What makes the suburb different from the flat country to the south is the ground. The streets rise and fall, so houses step down the slope and face whichever way the road happens to run. Two homes of the same design a few doors apart can have their best roof face pointing in different directions, and a house on the low side can lose late sun to the one above it. We model the shading for your address before we place a panel.
Nearly every one of these homes was built with ducted gas heating and gas hot water, on a switchboard that was never meant for more than lights, power points and a stove. Solar here should be sized for the electric house it is going to become, and the board brought up to date as part of the job. Both are covered in one quote, with our other services in Dandenong North.
The hardware is the same from house to house. The layout never is.
Jinko Tiger Neo and Aiko panels across the north, east and west hips, with each face checked for shade from neighbours, trees and the fall of the land. West-facing panels are worth having here because they carry the house into the evening.
Sigenergy SigenStor, GoodWe, Tesla Powerwall or Sungrow. Homes of this age often have a carport or a detached garage down the back, so the battery usually goes on a side wall near the meter box, out of afternoon sun, or in the garage if the cable run is sensible.
We confirm whether the house has single-phase or three-phase power at the visit, choose a hybrid inverter to suit, and lodge the export application with the network. Sloping blocks sometimes mean a longer run from roof to board, which we allow for in the design.
Original boards in Dandenong North are fifty or sixty years old. Where one has to go, the replacement is sized for ducted reverse cycle, heat pump hot water, an induction cooktop and an EV charger, even if those are years away.
The full range is on our products page.
Tier-one panels with 25-year performance warranties, laid out for the roof faces you have.
Hybrid and string inverters, chosen so a battery can join the system now or later.
Home batteries sized to the evening peak, with backup circuits set up for outages.
Home chargers wired into the same system and set to charge from your solar first.
We have not written up a Dandenong North job yet. These are from Oakleigh South, Ferntree Gully and Berwick, all single-storey homes with tile roofs.
26 Jinko Tiger Neo panels on a tile roof, a Sigenergy SigenStor single-phase inverter and three battery modules against the outside wall. No Solar Victoria rebate applied to this one.
38 Jinko Tiger Neo panels across the tile, a Sigenergy three-phase inverter, four battery modules on the exterior brick wall for 32.24kWh, and a Sigenergy EV charger on the same system.
27 Jinko Tiger Neo III panels on a single-storey tile and tin roof, with one row tilted west for late afternoon. The battery sits on a new concrete pad beside the existing switchboard, which needed no upgrade.
Most of the thinking happens before install day.
We look at each roof face, what stands uphill of it, the condition of the tiles, the switchboard and the walls a battery could go on.
Your daytime and evening use, plus the gas appliances you expect to replace, set the size of the array and the battery.
A drawing of the panels on your roof, the brands, the battery size and one after-rebate figure.
We lodge the network application and the rebate and discount paperwork. The install date follows the network approval.
Panels, inverter, battery and board work by our own crew, then testing, monitoring set up on your phone and the Certificate of Electrical Safety.
Owner-occupied houses, which most of Dandenong North is, are the ones the Victorian scheme is written for.
For eligible owner-occupiers, on the solar panels and inverter only. There are household income and property conditions, and an address that has claimed before may not qualify again. We check and lodge it.
Around 30 percent off an approved battery through the Cheaper Home Batteries program, with no income test. This is the only battery incentive now, since the Solar Victoria battery rebate and loan closed in 2025.
The federal certificates for the panels are deducted at the point of sale, so the price you see already includes them.
A solar quote that ignores the gas heater in the roof is only half a plan.
The same company replaces ducted gas with reverse cycle, so the solar is sized for it from the start. See heating and cooling in Dandenong North.
On sloping streets a satellite photo is not enough. Someone from our team stands on your block before the layout is drawn.
Our own A-Grade electricians, SAA accredited, with Powerband a New Energy Tech Approved Seller. Nothing is subcontracted.
The board upgrade, the longer cable run and the tile brackets are all in the quote. The price does not move on install day.
Live Google reviews. Look for the Sigenergy, GoodWe and Powerwall jobs.
Anything else, call 0466 355 441. You will get an electrician, not a salesperson.
Almost always. A hipped roof has faces in several directions, and east and west panels together produce well across the day. We show the expected output for each face before you decide.
It can, late in the day or in winter when the sun is low. We model it for your address and keep panels off any face that would not pay its way.
A standard block usually takes between 6.6kW and 10kW, and a larger roof takes more. If you plan to replace gas heating and hot water, we size toward the upper end so the system is not short later.
On a shaded outside wall close to the switchboard, on a small pad or wall bracket, with the clearances the rules require. We mark the spot at the site visit.
Our installers lift and refit the tiles around each bracket with care, and brackets made for tile take the load off them. We look at the roof condition first and tell you if we have concerns.
Either order works if the system is designed for both. Tell us your plans at the visit and we size the array, the battery and the switchboard for the electric loads to come.
A site visit to check the roof faces, the shade and the switchboard, then a drawn layout and a written after-rebate price. No obligation.
