4KW Solar installation

I had a 4 kiloWatt/hr solar system installed. 16 x 250W cells. The front of the house faces NE, so I had the panels split across the NE and NW face to optimise the day's collection. I got as many as I could on the NW face which was 7 cells. The remaining 9 are installed on the larger NE face. The strings are independently isolated, plugged into a 5kW inverter on the SE face of the house (always out of the sun). The inverter accommodates 2 strings. I didn't have the cash for microInverters, or tilt-kits. Given that I'm not facing ENE or WNW, it should be fine anyhow. Our roofs tilt is ~30' which is a nice average between a steep winter angle, and a really shallow summer angle. Here are some shots.

Installer guys...

9 panels on the NE front face of the house. Plenty of room for more.

7 panels on the NW face.

Inverter installed close to the mains power meter box on the SE face of the house.

System has been up for ~2.5hrs since the install was completed. Nice day, lots of patchy clouds, maybe 70% clear sky. Generated 8kW in a couple hours, many daylight hours left. (you can see it's 1pm in the shot). Really nice. Sitting on 4.3kW in full sun with two strings at non-optimal angles. Really pleased.