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Weird. Travis was chatting with you last night and yet nothing really happened today? Are the other batteries in stock? Perhaps not.

The rackmounts just don't make any sense to me. I think the manufacturers need to come up with a more easily handled design. Assembling cells and adding a BMS makes more sense than the rack mount package. An assembled battery is repairable. If a Redodo dies, I take it out and ship it back...

Impressive! Ive seen commercial and industrial equipment that didnt look this good. That cabinet is upside down, right?

I talked to the Panel builder this last week when they visited the site Im working at with some of their panels. They are interested in quoting the assembly and wiring. They have no interest in prepping the containers, as I suspected. If you need ground mounts constructed for the panels, the...

Im not saying 12 v batteries are the best or cheapest solution, other things should be much cheaper, but they are very easy to use. Tied together with cables and a balancer. If one goes bad you remove it and replace with a new battery. From what I see everything else is more difficult to...

OK, I missed that somehow. Thanks for the correction.

That is some serious power. You and Timselectric seem to be Growatt hardcores. The 10 year warranty is impressive. Are you using auto transformers to derive 120 VAC from your inverters? As much as some people bash Growatt's I don't hear many complaints from Growatt users. There seems...

I was watching one of many Youtube videos regarding solar power. There is a lot to learn about all of the equipment and I am trying to pick out a decent Hybrid Inverter. The guy in the video mentioned that he believed that the SunGoldPower and EG4 units were made by the same company and...

A lot of people were not thrilled about the server farm. But Indiana greased the skids and moved the city boundries, in order to get server farm. They even hid the project from the public, for months. So much for representative government. They disregarded any local objections. Server...

We were discussing Zero Export and how that might trigger issues with the utility. I was surfing and found this; https://forums.mikeholt.com/threads/zero-export-system-without-interconnection-agreement.2565790/ This is a lengthy discussion that took place in 2022. This is worth the read...

Impressive!

The way it works in Indiana and I believe most of the midwest, is that the power company owns the meter and all of the wire from the meter to the grid. We own the meter box and everything from the meter to the loads. So following our rules, you can do whatever you want from the meter, if...

Any chance the Emerson and Eltek share a common protocol?

Sounds like it shut itself down due to an internal fault. Power cycling to get rid of things like this might work...for a while. But something likely failed. On the otherhand, It has built in internal fault diagnostics obviously which is good. Better now than when out of warranty...

Do a search on "18KPV" on this forum. For a device that lives in a fairly small market space, that inverter has a lot of issues. Features that it has? Balance it with what? It seems to have a lot of firmware issues. I wouldn't buy one from what I have read. Maybe in a year after they...

The few I looked at said they would be at my door in 7 days or so and the one says its returnable until the end of January. I've bought Redodo batteries off Ebay with zero issues. I just saw this: $168 with free shipping, not prime. There may be others out there today. This won't do it...

How do you get started understanding the Sunny Island units? There doesnt seem to be a lot of info floating around about them. Whats too old, etc. They have been around for a long time.

The few I looked at said they would be at my door in 7 days or so and the one says its returnable until the end of January. I've bought Redodo batteries off Ebay with zero issues. I just saw this: $168 with free shipping, not prime. There may be others out there today. This won't do it...

Yes, and "THHN" much easier to say as well !!! No one says grab a roll of THWN-2 !!! :)

How do YOU measure "beefy"?? I'm very skeptical of ratings.

I have Moseworth that ive been using daily running a Bougerv refrigerator in my car for 5 months. It works fine. I bought 3 more. It has a 5 year warranty. Chins has a good reputation. The other two are new brands to me.

Still, they are pretty common. Not all equipment will automatically adapt.

Ha ha... I'm not looking for other inverters that might be worse! I think Quattrohead should tell us why the 18kpv is decent. I see a device that was released too soon with features that "require" that SS/EG4 intervene for some setups. This device has been released for a relatively short...

OK, so how does the "slow boat" work? I'm guessing they go into a container that heads to the lower 48, maybe Long Beach. The container is broken down and then shipped to their final destination be Fedex or UPS? I think it takes about 14 days for a freighter to cross the Pacific.

One more thing. Some battery brands are starting to sell in lots of 8 now with a discount. I think thats new.

I was just chatting with two guys who did an electric conversion to a conventional 33 ft and 36ft sloop. One has 13 KWHR of batteries and the other about 15 KWHR. The one boat can do 19 miles and the other 25 miles on electric motor alone. This is not against or running with the wind. This...

This battery was also 167.99, the exact same price as the one above. This one says it has low temp protection! Of course I forgot to order it before the price jumped back up. Oh well. So now we know they can sell a battery with low temp protection for $167.99 as well. If you read the...

Seriously? Yeah, I think it is. Liability sucks, but thats the way it works.

Yes, for its purpose it might be fine. But its not obvious thats its not a smart charger.

If a heater puts out 28,000 btu of heat and there is 140,000 btu of energy in a gallon of diesel, or about that and you run the heater at max heat constantly, you can only get 140,000/28,000 hours of heat out of the heater, max. The fact that the heater is not 100% efficient means it will...