A Lyndhurst roof does not always have room for a big array. Our local case study shows the other way to do it: 6.65kW of Jinko panels feeding 40.3kWh of Sigenergy storage, placed exactly where the owner asked. Designed and installed by our own A-Grade electricians.
Lyndhurst filled in between about 2005 and 2015, in estates such as Marriott Waters. The homes are family-sized, single and double storey, on blocks that leave little spare roof once the hips, valleys and a second storey are accounted for. Evaporative coolers sit on a good number of those roofs too, taking up space that panels would otherwise use. So the common question here is not how many panels fit. It is how to get the most from the ones that do.
The job we wrote up in Lyndhurst answers it. The array is 6.65kW, small by current standards. Behind it sits 40.3kWh of Sigenergy storage, so very little of what the roof makes is exported for a few cents. The owner reports the house running 91 percent on its own power. He came to us after a poor experience with a large solar company and brought a written specification: no conduit visible inside or out, the battery 40 metres from the switchboard, and a wired data connection to the gateway.
Not every Lyndhurst household needs that much storage, but the principle holds for most. These homes still heat and cook on gas, and as those appliances go electric the evening load grows while the roof stays the same size. A battery is how a fixed roof keeps up. We work through that sizing at the site visit, along with the rest of what we do in Lyndhurst.
We choose the storage and its position first, then fit the array and cabling around it.
Sigenergy SigenStor is modular, so capacity can be matched to the household and added to later. GoodWe, Tesla Powerwall and Sungrow are the alternatives. We size from your interval data where the retailer can supply it.
The switchboard is often at the front of the house and the best battery wall at the back of the garage or down the side. A long run is fine when the cable is sized for it. In Lyndhurst we ran 40 metres with nothing showing.
Jinko and Aiko panels on the clear north, east and west faces. We work around evaporative units, flues and antennas, and tell you plainly if a face is not worth covering.
Every system comes with app monitoring. For owners who run their own home automation, we can cable the gateway by ethernet and leave the system open to tools such as Home Assistant, as we did for the Lyndhurst owner.
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.
The Lyndhurst system is the unusual one. The Cranbourne North pair show the more typical balance of panels and storage.
Jinko Tiger Neo panels, a Sigenergy SigenStor hybrid inverter and 40.3kWh of storage, built to the owner's own specification with no conduit on show. Quote to commissioning took under a month.
20 Jinko Tiger Neo panels over two roof planes, with a single-phase Sigenergy inverter and three battery modules in the garage.
The same 20-panel array on a tile roof, this time with two SigenStor modules on an exterior wall for a household with a lighter evening load.
The Lyndhurst job went from quote to commissioning in under a month. This is the sequence.
Battery position, cable routes, what you want backed up, what you want to monitor. If you have a specification, we work from it.
We measure the usable roof faces and look at when the house uses power, then balance panels against storage.
Through the roof space, under the eaves or in the ground. You know where every run goes before you sign.
The network application and the federal and Solar Victoria paperwork are submitted by us.
Backup tested, the app or your own monitoring connected, and the Certificate of Electrical Safety issued.
When storage is the larger share of the price, the order of importance changes.
Cheaper Home Batteries reduces the price of an approved battery by around 30 percent, with no income test. On a system like the Lyndhurst one it outweighs every other incentive.
Small-scale technology certificates are deducted from the panel price at the point of sale. A smaller array earns fewer of them, which is another reason the battery discount leads here.
Panels and inverters only, for eligible owner-occupiers. Solar Victoria does not fund batteries: its battery rebate and battery loan both closed in 2025. Planning to replace the gas heater later? See heating and cooling in Lyndhurst.
Our Lyndhurst customer arrived wary. The way to earn that back was to do what the quote said.
If you want no visible conduit, a particular wall or a wired gateway, it is written into the quote and checked off at handover.
Powerband's own A-Grade electricians do the work. There is no handover to a contractor who has not read the brief.
Solar Accreditation Australia accredited and a New Energy Tech Approved Seller, with a depot you can visit at U44/10 Speedwell St, Somerville.
Engineers, programmers and tinkerers are some of our best customers. Ask the hard questions. You will be answered by someone who knows the equipment.
Live Google reviews. Look for the Sigenergy, GoodWe and Powerwall jobs.
More questions? Phone 0466 355 441. An electrician answers.
It can be. A large battery captures nearly all of a modest array's output and can also charge from the grid at off-peak rates when the weather is poor. The Lyndhurst system on this page has 6.65kW of solar and 40.3kWh of storage, and the owner reports 91 percent self-supply.
Yes. Our Lyndhurst job has it 40 metres away. The cable is sized for the distance and the route is planned so that it stays out of sight.
In most Lyndhurst homes, yes, by using the roof space, wall cavities and the garage. Where a short exposed section is unavoidable we show you where it will be before work starts.
Sigenergy systems can be set up for local access over ModBus, and we can run ethernet to the gateway. We did both for the Lyndhurst owner.
It takes some space and casts a little shade. We design around it and count only the faces and positions that will produce well.
We can assess what has been proposed or installed and quote to complete it properly. We will tell you what can be kept and what should not be.
Tell us what you want and where you want it. After a site visit you receive a fixed written quote with the panel layout, battery capacity, cable route and after-discount price. No obligation.
