Thanks for all this info, guys. I so wish I could do this stuff but it's prohibitively expensive, and apparently I live in one of the absolute worst states in the country for any kind of incentives or help from the power company (virginia). I think they were talking about a total of about $34K for my system, with federal tax credits bringing it down to about $24K, and that's definitely not in the family budget right now All I'd be getting on a yearly basis would be $545 in SRECs, since apparently Virginia also has the worst SREC market.

They system they would install seems like the same one you guys were talking about, with a separate inverter for each panel and a dashboard for information about the system.