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Thought about putting this in Beginner's Corner, but I suppose it's more appropriate here. After years, we're finally putting things up on walls. Got our solar shed built this summer, put the 160 pound Quattro 15K on the wall along with one of our MPPTs. Since we could only afford the metal...

Didn't think we would get this done before winter, but we did. Cabin and solar shed wired with breaker boxes and supplying AC power, and we got the panels mounted on our two solar arrays. Next summer, five more... It's super cool to see the ground mount design we made in CAD become a reality...

Victron fixed the issue. They said they'd ensure the issue was resolved at no cost to us, and the Regional Manager actually offered to provide us a new Quattro 48/15000 230V and pay for shipping it to us, if we'd pay for shipping one of the 48/8000s back to the dealer. We decided to keep one...

It has been years of posting on this forum, realizing I'm an idiot, learning something, then doing something else for a bit and forgetting everything I thought I previously learned, only to be an idiot again and have to re-learn what I thought I knew. Years, and all before we had actually built...

Happy to report that Victron reached out to resolve the issue without cost to us. Will update after all that coordination is done.

I went to my condo in Florida, or at least tried to, turned out it had moved to a new location so I couldn't find it.

I have my first batch of pressure canned meat whittled down to only 547 pounds/pints of meat after eating on it for several years. Had over a thousand jars initially, turns out we don't eat as much meat as we thought we would. We use an All American pressure canner. Fits 16 pint jars in it...

Concur. Thankfully Will has a strong character, very obviously sees the value in opposing viewpoints and differing perspectives, and has seen how human nature combined with Internet forums work and has decided to make one of the rare harbors to be found for expression online with his forum...

Lots of discussion online about vertical mounted bifacials (at least mounted facing east and west). Got a good day to test their ability to produce power on overcast days. March 16th was overcast all day, couldn't even see the mountains. But the 14 panels still produced just over 6 KWh. And...

This recent video supports my point. When they come for your chickens and your gardens, you can be sure they'll be coming for your solar. The carbon tax seems to be the big vehicle for that. They've already got satellite and drone imagery and if you don't comply with their tax or whatever...

It takes the generator running the 5KW chargeverter about an hour of running to charge that ten percent. Our loads are currently pretty light, so that ten percent buys us about 12 hours of time roughly. I disabled the auto start for the time being though, until I get my batteries in a warmer...

Another thought if you have a heavily forested challenging terrain area like we do and you're looking for a good way to figure out the best place for solar... What we did was we flew a drone to map our property and made a point cloud. Then we put that point cloud into ArcGIS and used the solar...

Just tilted one of the arrays for the first time. Just cool to see it work. It's pretty much academic at this point, they do so well vertical and in the summer we don't need any more power until we figure out how to manage a dump load. But just to see what it does. It will be really...

Agreed, the market place is likely the best place to solve this issue. But unfortunately liberty-mindedness is in low supply and there's even lower demand.

Any forum that doesn't have a real commitment to free speech will decline over time. We're adults. We can ignore those whose content we don't want to see. Nothing else need be or should be done in my opinion.

Concur. I'll go with the cooler weather. Our location has never seen 80F, hottest we get is in the 70s. Coldest is maybe -10F. I'll take it. And digging a root cellar or going underground is a great way to equalize. 55F or so year round is God's climate control.

I couldn't agree more about the CBDC and what that represents. When it gets adopted, and given that I don't think Americans actually have any real voice I believe it will, then it's game, set, match on our grand experiment that started during the Enlightenment. But some will be able to live...

No idea on the first two questions. As to the third, I'm planning on starting an OnlyFans to fund the ATV. People will give cash hand over fist to watch a middle aged guy groom real Alaskan squirrels.

This is exactly my thought process. Because I only have 3 hours or so to charge in the winter, I want a lot of panels producing a lot of energy, and I want all my equipment to be able to charge the batteries with every single ounce of it. During the planning process we encountered a lot of...

We have three Harvest Right medium units. Thought being they'll be easier to sell if we need to. They have larger units as well that can do more at one time, but their really big one has trays that are likely too big for a normal dishwasher. Agreed on using them in the summer when the solar...

I would still be burning wood year round, even in July, except that we super insulated our cabin and so the passive solar on sunny days is enough to keep the cabin at 70F and now that we, just yesterday, finally got our heat pump installed....no more wood burning until deep winter if ever again...

Great idea to prepare and my wife and I have been doing it for the last five years. Unfortunately, at the end of the day, I'm not sure if our efforts will really do much. I think the situation may well be far worse than I was imagining when we started. Some of my assumptions were likely too...

Good point. No power on the bus bar, no components turned on, but now is probably a good time to break the habit of just letting things lay around...

Ha! I don't have the bandwidth to name all these moose. This one chose to sleep there by the cabin and there was another one on the other side of the cabin bedded down. We're a minority in these parts so they might name us. I was gonna get to work, but she's still there and looks comfortable...

Back side of one of our two arrays on this nice Alaska morning. We still have them in the vertical position since we're still getting snow. For those considering bifacial panels, they really do give more power than they're rated for. These two arrays consist of 14 x 440W bifacial panels and...

So we contacted the dealer here in North America about getting this MPPT RS fixed after we busted one of the trackers during torquing the PV connection. Dealer sent us the latest manual which was revised in October and it now specifies a torque of 1.2NM. So the older number we used was...

I wouldn't be surprised if Finland or Sweden had a solution to the transformer issue. Not at all. I would, however, be shocked if we had implemented a solution in the United States.

Saw a big shadow of a bird fly right by us a few minutes ago and looked out a side window and saw him in a deadwood tree next to our cabin. I made a call and to my utter surprise he flew over and down from the side of the cabin and landed on our deck right in front of us. Maybe ten feet away...

Got er done. Used a 100W 120V light bulb on the negative. It turned on for a half second and went right out. Hooked it up, no sparks, everything worked fine. Thanks for the advice!

Yeah, that's not good. Starlink is great, but it's very dangerous. And it tracks the exact location of your dish. Persistent eye in the sky at relatively low altitude and the satellites do have cameras (they say to monitor space). Elon's ties to the military industrial complex, China, and...