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Good evening a suggested low cost balcony railing mount for Solar panels. : ) There will be two of these ladder sections to each panel, one either end. The panels will be mounted horizontally. We have not sorted the configuration for the bottom of the cut off ladder section, to give the...

Yes they advertise at 3000 or more watts on the eBay listing, then after reading all the gumph below you end up with an inverter that is rated for continues use at 400 watts : ) I have given up messaging them, deception is part of their mind set, it is a pity as it makes you suspect them all...

The railings were well made locally in Mullion Village and galvanised. I installed them, the mounts are thick metal with heavy raw bots into a block wall. The winds we get are South West so side on to the panels, the Cove has high cliffs to the South and North, the building is to the north...

Thank you for your reply, I had to look up Turnbuckle, even though it turns out I use them as guy wire tensioners : ) I have a couple of spare jacks, the type used to motor dive satellite dishes, but that would be over the top. Besides at least one would be required for each of the four new...

Thank you I will take a look. I have four charge converters that are 12 or 24, so rather than replacing those as well will stay with 24 for now. : ) Added : - Not what I was looking for as only 3500.

All done : ) Thank you to all for assistance. We have had some high winds and nothing moved. Four 340w panels facing South and one 190w facing West, which picks up the evening sun very well. Four 130 amp leisure batterys which so far are fine. The red charger with timer is to take...

Thank you kindly, I had a look at your other images on Photo Bucket, it looks to be a nice tidy install : ) Beer on tap as well. I have added some links below to show what I am up to, I hope that is within the forum rules ? The batteries showed 12.8 last night after a day of no discharge. If...

We live by the sea in Cornwall UK and it is a beautiful day today. : ) We have six 340 panels, four are Luxer and two JA, all facing due south on a balcony. Also one 190 used panel that facing west, that catches the evening sun over the sea very well. The six panels are connected in pairs to...

Lower current does sound good I have eight battery's so series parallel would be simple to switch to.

Thank you kindly for the link, I shall order two 40 amp chargers and get the wiring ready : ) God Bless Chadd

That sound about right, the jacks used to move larger satellite dishes often fail due to water ingress, I have put plastic bags over mine. I suppose if you had an array of ground mounted panels, an arrangement could be made to move them all together. We have no ground level space to speak of...

Thank you, lots of reading at that URL, I had searched on Google and the forum on 6000 watt 24 volts with little results. Missed the model number for some reason : ) It does look as if its surge capabilities are not as good as some. Looking at all that my Renogy 3000W 12 Volt is not doing too...

I have read about balancing, but that was after I had connected the battery's all up : ) At sometime I shall rewire with new cable and terminals. I used heavy cable I had over from feeding 12 volts to rotary converters on WW2 transmitters. The battery terminals I purchased work OK, but are...

Yes that sounds fine, with the fingers holding the cable, I shall go for that : ) As to crimping, pliers will have to do then solder, Some crimping tools linked to You Tube videos were listed at £40, I find that ridicules. I am sure there are cheaper ones, but unless you are an installer no...

Making multiple connections to storage batteries. I have two batteries at present in parallel, there is one charge converter connected to them and an invertor. I have two more charge converters to connect and more batteries to parallel up. The batteries have the car battery type terminals...

Thank you for your reply. What ever is generating the RF inside the inverter, is then passing it down the output mains cable. Not from the metal case or the battery input leads. If no lead is plugged into the inverter socket, no interference is heard. So filtering the mains out of the...

I feel I understand it better now, I tended to think as I have read others do, that the panels pushed out power. Rather it is power on demand is that correct ? It certainly is a very interesting subject, there being far more to it all than I thought. I have been in the repair side of radio...

Yes of course that is the answer thank you : )

Good evening octal_ip thank you for your reply, it answered my question perfectly. Before I purchased the correct RS485 to USB converter, I tries one half of a cat5 Ethernet to USB extension device, that I use with the USB cameras on my satellite dishes. It locked the computer up and damaged...

The size of the panels is the distance from the roof peak to the flat roof. When mounted on the rails the addition to the angle to the flat roof will or should give a bit more space. I have read all over the net, installers have said as well as pictures showing spacing at the sides and the eves...

Has anyone purchased 100 or 200 ah batteries wet or AGM and found they performed at least over the shot term, as expected ? There are so many out there with all sorts of claims, a lot look like the same battery with a different label : ) Some deep cycle batteries even claim they can be used...

Alanna and I have spent a couple of days so far online looking at batteries. This is the best result we have come up with so far at £160 : ) 100Ah 12V Deep Cycle AGM Battery for Leisure, Solar, Wind and Off-grid 12 volt Lithium I know is better, but is very high cost and is daunting in the...

Thank you for your reply, the seller is advertising this battery as 130AH, is it in fact 100 AH in old spec ? LISTED AS 130AH Regarding the life of the battery, it will be charged with three MPPT controllers from four 340w and one 290 w solar panels. The inverter just cut out at 11.5v, at the...

Thank you for the link, I only found standard connectors because I used the wrong search terms. : ) I can see from the link that there are a lot more types available. Also just watched a couple of videos on bus bars so both suggestions will help sort my problem : )

The panels are south facing, we do get a lot of bright days, in fact the Cornish song goes "It Never Rains in Cornwall we have a constant bright blue sky" : )

Good evening which will produce the most Solar Panel output. Mounted vertically on balcony railings facing south in Cornwall UK, or flat on a flat roof ? While we wait for some new panels to arrive, we have a single panel laying flat horizontal on the south facing balcony. It produces some...

Good evening I am about to fit some connecters to the feed cables. None of the connecters were supplied assembled. The cable seal / clamp will fit in either way. I have messaged the seller, but even when they do / if reply I small not be sur,e as often these sort of sellers do not have a clue...

The way the UK pound is thanks to our most unfortunate choice in leaders, it will be expensive over here : )

Good morning on this sunny day. : ) I had other cabling and sorting of webcams over USB Cat6 converters, for my saterlite dishes to get up and running. I shall get round to it soon. Watch this space but do not hold your breath : ) God Bless Chadd

Good afternoon from a warm and sunny Mullion Cove Cornwall where it never rains : ) Thank you to all for your advice, the point that some invertors are stackable was not known to me. At the moment I am just finding out. Later a decision if to go off grid, or just have a back up for my radio...