Ok. I was also thinking that since I have bought the 40a fuses for the individual wires off the main terminal the 100a or 150a is redundant isnt it since it will only be acting as short circuit protection and the lower 40a fuses will act as protection in the other instances discusses? Is that right?
Yes it did seem a young company looking at reviews on trustpilot. I guess it is just a small operation buying stuff from alibaba and reselling with a huge mark up.
I had read that thread doing my research before I bought it. I made sure to buy from a uk seller if any issues arose, which they...
Oh by the way! I think to start I would mostly be dependent on my van's solar and ideally would keep it all on there so I would not have to install any to cover my daily uses. As such would be less flexible with mounting and positioning. I do not fancy moving it around every day either to chase...
She actually. Or maybe 'they' these days :ROFLMAO:.
Well dc charger would be the more logical choice as someone else mentioned and I had considered.
So 7a in exceptional winds. So more likely a 3rd of that day to day? My current solar is only getting about 3-5 watts average and closer to 3 and...
No, I did nothing to alter the battery switch wires when working yesterday. I did not touch that so not about hooking it up to anything. This behaviour happened out of the blue after working with the rockers. I was only connecting the terminal cables to the rocker switches themselves. I wasn't...
Well my attention is on trying to reclaim almost a grand so that is my priority then maybe I can look to spend it on something else.
Do these things have a closed intake/exhaust chamber though like diesel heaters?
Actually my van behind my mum's house where it is currently already has had 0 direct and only just starting to get an hour or so's direct now it is starting to creep higher in the sky and the generation has not been too bad at all. I installed the electric right at the peak/slump of the winter...
Can you guys explain the readouts on the monitor screen. I read the manual all the way through and still am not clear. I know load section can be ignored. For pv and the battery icons what does x.xA pertain to as the bottom figure? I know amps. For the pv I guess it is what amps it is producing...
200 watts for one hour per week? You mean at peak output? The whole issue is I am getting a fraction of stated 200 due to uk winter as mentioned in the number above. Often as low as 3-5w sometimes up to 22w. More if out from behind the house in direct sunlight but all very fluctuating so have to...
I found his videos recently when looking for videos on diesel heaters using biofuel and he had made a video or two about that.
I find something rather eery about that gentleman. I think it is the inappropriate laughing which seems rather forced.
Great videos nonetheless and do like his mission...
Because it happens as soon as the pumps starts moving diesel through the pipe. Also the strongest smell is localized to the appliance and specifically where the fan blows not just generally around the whole van.
Reminds me of when I went on a walk and got lost and got mixed up which direction the sun should be facing to orient myself. After about 4 hours walking and not seeing any of the landmarks I expected to see it then dawned on me I had been walking in the wrong direction and would have to walk...
The usb thing was another matter. Indeed I did muddy the waters mentioning that. Forget about that :).
The charger I pictured earlier is the EXACT charger used to charge the tablet. The tablet charges as expected from the wall plug.
It does not charge using direct connect with same 2.1mm...
Starlink is renting from a company so no different. Just a different technology and company.
What I am getting at is the idea of open source rather than just piggybacking off other peoples stuff. Like how you can self host your own websites by running a server from home rather than renting from...
What do you mean? If you are talking about electrical heating of course. Diesel heaters are so popular because they take so little electricity to work. 14 amps to start for a few minutes then settle to under 1 amp.
A few videos on this but it seems mixed reviews. Some say it works other say it works but will break the parts with continued use.
There are a couple of biofuel dedicated forums but I wasn't able to join. Either reg disabled or unsolvable verification question: "Our favourite runny golden...
Most from what I have read are rated way higher so you end up with that or less if you bought a 500. Look at my recent thread where I write I want to do just the same as you. Maybe we can compare notes. There are many naysayers trying to discourage it but it has been done as you can see on the...
I do not use a smartphone in principle not through lack of money. I will sooner buy a dedicated device than get a free smartphone.
I am seeing there are some reasonably priced battery monitors though. I only want a basic one which would be equivalent in design to like the mt50 solar charge...
You assume I want super fast internet and watch youtube and netflix and the bells and whistles? As I said I would accept a compromised version. Most of that high bandwitch stuff is brain rotting anyway. Did you look at the front page of youtube lately? Also I am using linux right now. 90% of...
I know that the tablet charges via dc but it is with an ac to dc adaptor. How to charge direct from dc source in van?
Can usb be used as I have 2 ports? If so how? I am not sure what connections are needed.
I looked at the ac adaptor last night and it stated, from memory, 1.5a input and 1000ma...
No need to guess here they are. Here is a link to the manual. On page 10 are the panelling details. Can you clarify then with the precise information what the maximum series and parallel I could do with the 100w panels? I am still not confident on the technical stuff.
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Nowhere did I deny that was a good idea. I simply had not tried it yet, except for the existing passive venting, due to focusing on heat - which provided limited benefit at least in short bursts and realizing the length of time needed to heat to remove substantial moisture would cost a fortune...
I saw that lfp04 as well as lfp08, rather than only having user settings to set them, are options and my battery seller said this would be the one I should choose (fogstar drift 105ah).
Every time I switch the power back on though the setting defaults to "sealed" in the options. I set again and...
Could people also comment on discussion based on this thread. user 12voltinstalls is saying that I cannot use the max pv stated in the manual but do not understand why. Please open discussion on my recent question there in that thread. Namely what is the max in series I could go with those...