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When my now grown daughter was 4 or 5 years old I was in the habit of taking a couple mile walk every day. She couldn't keep up so I built her a solar powered tricycle out of junk in my garage. It has a 12v RV battery powering an old trolling motor driving a lawn tractor transaxle with 5 forward...

Sunny day greetings to all. Just discovered this forum when researching charge controllers but have been off grid PV since 1987 in the sunny part of Oregon. There was a magazine called Home Power that got started around that time, owned by Richard and Karen Perez. Things have really progressed...

Would there be any problem connecting the load terminals of the controller to a lead acid RV battery in order to keep it charged when the main LiFePo4 battery reaches full charge? Alternatively could a small inverter be attached to the load output, a battery charger plugged into the inverter to...

Seems like a good deal over the Victron unit. I have one on order.

I shut off this breaker to do some work to the system and it wouldn't complete the circuit when turned back on. The breaker was on the positive cable for a 1000 Watt inverter. No smoke or heat detected and the breaker has never clicked off on its own. I put a fuse in its place for the time being.

Changing over to lifepo4 from 30+ years of living with lead acid and would appreciate some feedback on which settings are best or if it matters. System is about 50 amps of 12v panels in parallel, 300 AH Weize lifepo4 battery, Tracer 4215BN charge controller, MT50 screen. Battery manual on left...