[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":119},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page-\u002Fcontact":3,"author-mike":83},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"bare":7,"body":8,"dateModified":71,"datePublished":71,"description":72,"extension":73,"howToSteps":74,"kits":74,"layout":75,"meta":76,"navigation":7,"path":77,"schemaType":78,"seo":79,"sources":74,"stem":80,"targetKeywords":74,"titleTag":81,"translationOf":74,"__hash__":82},"content\u002Fcontact.md","Contact","mike",true,{"type":9,"value":10},"minimark",[11,24,31,42,48,59,65],[12,13,14],"answer-box",{},[15,16,17,18,23],"p",{},"Email ",[19,20,22],"a",{"href":21},"mailto:hello@smallsolarco.com","hello@smallsolarco.com",". It goes to one person and gets answered, usually within a day or two.",[15,25,26,30],{},[27,28,29],"strong",{},"Corrections."," If something here is wrong, tell us. We'll fix it and note what changed. This is the most useful email you can send us.",[15,32,33,36,37,41],{},[27,34,35],{},"Questions about your own place."," Happy to look at them, though ",[19,38,40],{"href":39},"\u002Fwizard","the calculator"," will usually get there faster and we'll mostly be repeating it back to you.",[15,43,44,47],{},[27,45,46],{},"If you have a system running."," Send us your kit, orientation, tilt, and monthly kilowatt-hours. We're building a picture of real California installations, and a dozen of them would be worth more than our one test balcony.",[15,49,50,53,54,58],{},[27,51,52],{},"If you're a landlord, board member or property manager."," We'd like to know what you're planning to do about these requests, and we'll keep it anonymous if you'd rather. ",[19,55,57],{"href":56},"\u002Fguides\u002Fcan-your-landlord-or-hoa-say-no","We're tracking this",".",[15,60,61,64],{},[27,62,63],{},"Manufacturers."," We don't accept review units on terms that involve anyone approving the review first, and we say so on any review of hardware we've been sent. If that's acceptable, get in touch.",[15,66,67,70],{},[27,68,69],{},"What we can't do."," Tell you whether your specific circuit is safe — that's an electrician. Tell you whether your HOA will win an argument — that's an attorney. We're a website.","2026-09-01","Corrections, questions, and data from your own plug-in system. One person reads all of it.","md",null,"article",{},"\u002Fcontact","WebPage",{"title":5,"description":72},"contact","Contact SmallSolarCo","BYBy580I_rux8TkqV5LWTYw2SgajzjKGVKLK-BLKRus",{"id":84,"title":85,"body":86,"description":110,"email":22,"extension":73,"location":111,"meta":112,"name":92,"navigation":7,"path":113,"photo":114,"role":115,"sameAs":74,"seo":116,"stem":117,"__hash__":118},"authors\u002Fauthors\u002Fmike.md","Mike",{"type":9,"value":87},[88,94,97,102,105],[15,89,90,93],{},[27,91,92],{},"Mike Yu"," started SmallSolarCo after working out that a plug-in panel was the only kind of solar available to him — he rents in Irvine with a west-facing balcony and no roof of his own. He is not an electrician, a solar installer, or a lawyer, and the site says so wherever it matters. He has a background building web products, and built the savings model here himself, using NREL irradiance data and Southern California Edison's published rates.",[15,95,96],{},"Since September 2026 he has been running a plug-in kit on that balcony and logging what it actually produces. Every measured figure on this site comes from that kit. Everything else is labelled as an estimate.",[98,99,101],"h2",{"id":100},"editorial-independence","Editorial independence",[15,103,104],{},"We don't accept review units on terms that involve anyone approving the review first. If a manufacturer sends us a kit, we say so on the review, and we keep the right to publish a bad one.",[15,106,107,108,58],{},"Reach him at ",[19,109,22],{"href":21},"Mike Yu started SmallSolarCo after working out that a plug-in panel was the only kind of solar available to him — he rents in Irvine with a west-facing balcony and no roof of his own. He is not an electrician, a solar installer, or a lawyer, and the site says so wherever it matters. He has a background building web products, and built the savings model here himself, using NREL irradiance data and Southern California Edison's published rates.","Irvine, California",{},"\u002Fauthors\u002Fmike","\u002Fimages\u002Fauthors\u002Fmike.jpg","Founder",{"description":110},"authors\u002Fmike","kb0uodhMlGk_YV3nMOIXdr6bpZgtB5zNoRxdGxsXMQ8",1788387857864]