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Wow, that is an incredibly detailed response and honestly I think you spent more time understanding my system than anyone I have ever talked to. Thank you. So now on to the questions, the manual for this controller is not on their website anywhere, and the link they sent to me is dead. So I’m...

I did order them, ended up just getting them shipped as much as I hated to pay the shipping. I will be completely disassembling the shipment before that truck leaves or I sign anything. Learned my lesson on freight shipments. Pretty sure they don’t use forklifts anymore only angry gorillas ?

You’re building the exact battery setup I have. Except I have the welded studs not threaded holes. And FilterGuy helped me through the bms mess, and so much more (thank you FilterGuy!!) we ended up doing 4 overkill bms’s. I love it. Having the 4 bms’s ensures I’m never pushing them hard at all...

Yeah lol. That’s kinda what I’m thinking. That or going full on Amish paradise and converting it to gasoline powered. We have some Amish communities around here and if you have never seen a gasoline powered well pump they have them 😂. No electricity involved, just a gas motor and and air compressor.

Your credit card company should have no problem dealing with this. I ordered a chainsaw “parts kit” that includes everything to assemble the saw of course it’s a knockoff from China but I needed a very large saw and couldn’t stomach the $2000 price tag for the real deal (powerhead only). Long...

Here’s what the interface looks like on the charge controller I have. I believe it has a shunt or two in it to measure amps coming in with solar and wind. I think…

Ahahahaha oh I’m sure the wife would be thrilled with half the house filled with solar equipment 🙃 not to mention the million plus I’d have to spend lol. Geez that’s a sweet setup though!

Good evening everyone! I’m back with a new project lol. So in my never ending quest to be as self sufficient as possible I am working towards building a wood shop to process wood from my little sawmill. Here’s where my problem lies. This shop isn’t going to be an everyday use shop, at least not...

Haha it’s a bit convoluted. It has 5 plugs lol. Here are the name plates and I believe the plugs on the two 5hp motors are nema 6-30 I believe. 3 prongs 2- flat and a ground. The first nameplate on the large farm duty motor is faded but i believe it says FLA 23 if the picture isn’t clear enough.

Dang! That works out to almost exactly what I made per panel yesterday too! I had 6.9kwh with 6 panels on a south facing roof but it’s a 34 degree roof and I get partial shading till about noon. I’m in Missouri. So the snail trails must not be affecting the output too much!

Yeah… I’m thinking it’s past the realm of what I want to build in a solar system. Our system is currently great for what we need 95% of the time and I’m just not sure it’s a smart move to oversize so massively for such an infrequent load…

Do you have any advice on those? I’m reading a bit online and it looks like I need a little over 100 amps to start each 5hp motor. But reading I’m even pushing my tractor to get to a 25kw pto powered generator. Is it even going to be possible to start one motor, then once it’s online bring the...

Hello everyone, been lurking here awhile after seeing Will’s diy lifepo4 battery videos on YouTube while researching battleborn batteries. Thank you for the wealth of knowledge, I’d never consider buying from alibaba and especially not batteries but here I am, patiently waiting for 8 EVE 280ah...

I have been trying to figure out a way to go from 120v single phase inverter output to 240v (split?) phase output. My idea was to use a small 2000 watt inverter to keep my idle loads to a minimum. Currently using an aimes 6000 watt inverter but at 79 watts idle consumption it’s not an...

Well Bob, guess what! With the help of this forum I found pretty much exactly what I was asking for! Even more annoying is it looks like it’s made by the same people that make aimes inverters!! What in the world! I seriously wonder if the entire solar industry is just a bunch of scammers...

Thanks Bob, I have dug and dug and not made a lot of headway. To be honest it is disappointing but either not a single solar supplier knows their products well enough or what I’m after simply doesn’t exist. Nobody makes a sub 3000watt split output inverter. Nobody. And as for buying another...

I have never gotten to deal with any electric motors in this size and in the past looking at the name plate got me good enough to not have any issues. But even my gas generator that’s 8kw 13.5kw starting watts just made the magnetic starter go crazy on the main motor and even with the belts off...

Whew, yeah. $3800 is a lot for an inverter. I’m sure they’re great, but yeah in my application when the idle draw is my main concern I just don’t know if I could justify that kinda $$$. That’s half of what I have in my system to date ?

I sent them an email. Stupid me I should’ve bought an extra panel just to be safe. Now getting a replacement shipped will probably cost what 3 panels would ??‍♂️

I would think so haha. I was surprised one 5hp motor can draw over 100amps on startup 😳.

From what I can see on your diagram that looks pretty much exactly correct for everything I have currently. If you don’t mind I might save that just to have a breakdown if I ever need it? I do not have any fuses on my series strings of panels, other than the 63A breaker that I have when they...

Good afternoon everyone! Hope everyone is staying cool out there! It’s a hot one here. I’m trying to track down some more panels to add to the 6 I have now. Anybody got any used 225-300 watt 24v panels for sale? I’m going to eventually upgrade to the higher output panels but just can’t quite...

I had considered doing that Bob. And if I couldn’t find any other solution that was my plan. My biggest issue with that would be I would still keep my 6000 watt inverter hooked up. Just with a battery buss bar for both inverters to be hooked up to the batteries, and on the ac side some sort of...

Back to the drawing board lol. So my main reason I would like to have 240v output is just for simplicity. My well pump is 240v, so I’m always going to have to have 240v in one form or another with enough juice to push a 1/2 hp pump. So trying to move all circuits to one leg of my breaker box...

Also, I do like the idea of two inverters for backup reasons. Two is one one is none kinda thing lol

Good evening everyone! Just thought I’d post an interesting thing I ran across today. We were dropping off some leftover metal roof scraps at a local scrapper and he mentioned some batteries he had tried to scrap but nobody would take them. I was curious as I had researched nickel iorn (iorn...

In my digging I even thought maybe to use a euro spec 230v single phase inverter with an autotransformer and found victron could swap from 50hz to 60hz so that was covered. But i had one heck of a time figuring out what kind of models victron even has. Ended up talking to a dealer and he had a...

Oh I remember those old ni-cad batteries very well lol. We had a shop guy that loved to leave our drill batteries on the charger overnight. They wouldn’t hold a charge for anything! I’ll have to read through that paper, thank you! I guess that’s what threw me off about these batteries, I...

Hmm, 350’ of 2/0 x 6 ugh. That’s a real bummer. https://www.amazon.com/Voltage-Converter-DROK-Regulator-Transformer/dp/B076TTBKFG here’s a link to the boost module. And the way he explained it to me I would put it in directly after my rectifiers. As for the fuses that’s definitely something I...

Good to hear about the snail trails! I ended up going that route instead of the cracked vinyl backs. As realistically I can only fit 10 more panels on my roof in the best sun areas anyway so the 20 panel deal wasn’t optimal. My two wood stove chimneys are both on the south side of the roof too...