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The thermal pressure relief valve should be cpvc? Anyways, I installed the aosmith vortex hpts-50 and it’s great. I like the water connections on top more but the control app is a joke. I thought rheem was a joke and this is worse.

I am running open-loop with my skybox right now since I have 3 different types of BMSes but the drawback I can see if and when I switch to a more advanced inverter is the ability for the inverter to get an accurate SOC unless the inverter has a great coulomb counter or shunt. It seems like a lot...

When I say some pros build a parallel main panel and do a cut a swing on the same day, they literally put up a new panel in a nearby location, make a new roof penetrations anyways because you are usually stepping up the imc mast/conduit to 1.5” or 2” for 200A anyways so they complete all the...

If you have the space to do this, I would absolutely do this as well because if you need to put CTs for metering or cap your sell back, it’s easier to do it on wires than some of these bus bars in meter plus cabinet combos.

If you are installing in the same location, you need to plan things out and have the crew come out and disconnect, pull your meter. If you cut the tags and pull yourself, the power company will see your meter go offline and send someone out soon to check and they can be extremely mad for meter...

The one issue with the wagos is the tendency to have one of the levers catch onto another wire and lift it up half way but I always take electrical tape and wrap the levers so they don’t have a chance flip up. I feel completely safe using them, especially when stranded thhn is involved.

You are probably right. The only reason why I'm thinking about this is because this year, I'm using the heat pump mini splits so much more (all these cold nights) and in Feb, my net usage is probably ~400KwH vs 13KwH surplus compared to last year. I also got a new HPWH which is drawing on...

The main question is since I am on NEM2 and EV2A home charging rate plan, should I use my inverter and 30KhW of battery storage to load shave, self supply during PEAK times and use PV + Grid to charge battery back. This is essentially what I did during the summer months and it seems like I have...

Oh yeah, you have to dig through a lot of documentation so see what specific meter socket is approved for which power company. Did you buy the ringless one at the local home depot?

Would you just sell the BOS portion where the solar input and breakers live?

Here is my dashboard with all the battery data I would ever need to see.

Looks like it can output data to MQTT but it can't take external MQTT data to graph battery statistics.

Does SA use MQTT data? I have 3 different battery BMSes and a smarthsunt and all the data is published to MQTT and ingested into an InfluxDB for Grafana.

If there is no safety built in, I’d be afraid the system will literally kaboom! I trust esp32s and alike for automation, monitoring but not enough to try to prevent excess solar from raising the ac voltage.

I mentioned about the skybox and AC coupling on the backed up load output. I’ve watched the frequency go up and down according to the solar + load and my old sunyboy inverter worked wonderfully. I have enphase iq7+ inverters now and originally, I’m thinking to try to keep the solar connected to...