Recent content by DrZ123

Yes this will be through a flexi conduit

Haha true! This picture was taken right when I purchased the house so we had a lot of crap in there. It's pretty cleaned out now but will definitely be a lot safer and neater once in the shed

I don't think that was mine. This was put in by the previous owner of my house and I have worked on it and then now moving it over to the shed. I have 16 battleborn 100 amp hour batteries, wired in 4s4p to make a 48 volt system. The previous owner did it that way because the house is pretty...

Hah, that was done by the previous owner who initially set up the system. I think it's just a connection point there and he did a sloppy job covering it up.

I feel like between having the complication of another battery and having to buy another battery, the cost savings over just buying thicker wire would be negligible. If I run the 48 volt to the house and just use 12 AWG wire I should be able to do the system for only the cost of the wire which...

Yes I have this already in my system

I was looking at just using an ac/DC charger but it seems like kind of a clumsy solution. And if the AC inverter goes down, both systems go down. Since I'm off grid it's nice to have redundancy. I could put a separate battery in the house and have it charge off of AC? This gives the redundancy...

I'm moving all of my solar setup to a shed about 30-50ft from my off-grid home. I am going to run 4awg cable from the shed to the breaker I'm the house for 120v AC from my Victron inverter. I'm trying to figure out how to power the 12v system in the house. I use max 150w of 12v for some lights...

What do you guys recommend for the DC? Already spending a ton on this shed and cable so cost isn't really an issue.

I just got 4 lengths of 4awg for the AC, another run of 8awg isnt that bad!

Its about 10-15 3-5w DC light bulbs and then a few DC phone/tablet chargers. Pretty minimal. Was trying to get all of the main components in the shed...

It's direct from the batteries to a Victron 48/12 DC/DC converter. See attached image. There's not much load on it, maybe 100-200w max ever. Not sure how I would keep the converter in the main house but the batteries in the shed? The run may not be 50ft, I just got 50ft to be safe. It's...

I know you did warn me, wish me luck. I think solid conduit is going to be too hard to properly get under the buildings it needs to go under. I'm going to pull the cable first and then run the conduit, hopefully that makes it easier since no turns? It's an off-grid cabin so there is 12v DC...

So I ordered 2x 50ft 1.25" flexi conduit, one for the AC and the other for DC. For the DC, can I run the solar panel wire through as well as the output to my 12v DC system in the house through the same conduit? For AC I ordered red, black, white, and yellow 4awg THWN cable, 50ft each. Is that...

I was thinking to run a thin rope through the flexi tube using a small rock on the end. Then tie the rope to all 4 wires really well and pull them through? It's a 1.25" tubing so there should be space...