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A 55 amp charger in all reality won't put out 55 amps. Try hooking it up and measure amperage.

I think its just because of unbalanced load on one leg causing the voltage fluctuation. See these 2 graphs here. The constant ~1700 is an electric heater and some other small appliances in the trailer right now, which are all on Leg 1, The spike at 21:00 is the water heater kicking on from a...

How much more do you need? Is it just 10-20kWh more or 100kWh more?

Yup, I agree. Sounds like idle consumption to me. Could be the batteries internal BMS drawing power as well, dependent on the type.

You are my spirit animal. I wish I would just do it myself lol. Thank you for documenting this in detail!

Yeah any UPS that I find that could support that is more expensive than just putting the miner on the grid and paying the electric bill ?

Has anybody installed their Sol-Ark outside? I've done some google searching, but I've only found installs indoors. Mine will have to be outside on a South-West facing wall. So it will be in the sun in the hottest part of the day. I'm thinking of getting a metal locking cabinet, something like...

Lmao, I mean the output of 6500 watts each, 13000 watts total is more than the 50 amp RV breaker (12000 watts) could supply. Lmao, just don't get you a Sister-Cousin and it'll be fine ?

I was actually wondering this. Is yours a 12k or 15k? I'm wanting to use battery communication, but also wanting to use Solar-Assistant. Bummer if there isn't 2 ports for this.

Cool to hear, im sure we buy material that comes from you quite often.

I understand what a WH is, the fridge is rated at 120v/5A which is 600watts. Over a 24 hour period it used 7968watts, or 332 watts per hour on average, Or 332WH. My fridge does not have a kWh per year rating, or atleast nowhere on the fridge, in the manual, or online that I could find. Is how...

Immediately after a top balance is not an hour later. After top balancing i would wait 24hrs. You should have less than 20mv difference after a top balance. If not. I would redo the procedure.

Hey guys, I finally ordered some Ferrules so that the 4ga SO cable going into my inverter would stop getting smashed and messed up, as well as getting ALL of the wire into the terminal. My only question is, how the hell are you supposed to use these? I ordered THESE from Amazon, and they...

Yes 50 amps or so with the slides going out, 35 amps with them coming in. When "bottomed out" or dead head for a long period of time (longer than I would like) it pulled 120 amps or so. Getting the 150amp model was a lot more money, so we'll try out the 100a first. The breaker from the...

Oh don't worry, I'm gonna make lots of happy accidents throughout this build... lol

Surely there are other vendors that sell that same cell. Don't buy from them again.

I would imagine overcharging would do this?

Ok, say I get the 5a model and wire it just for the RZR. Is 13.8v too high to maintain? Shouldn't storage voltage be 13.4v for a FLA?

Sono sion looks like they're utilizing every square inch of the car that they can for PV. You're hoping to put 1 panel on a car and it do the same? They're also only claiming that in certain parts of the world and at certain times of the year, not in Alaska in December

At a higher price, of course

I'm not sure! Last night it was 41, and this was usage from 8pm to 8am: The little bumps are the refrigerator cycling on and off and 1x of the 2x peaks that are close together at around 5:30 is the water heater kicking on to maintain temp. I won't be able to know about the sub 35* temps...

No it just has a minimum to show on the app. Anything under 2 amps it assumes is 0 because of inaccuracies. This is strictly just for your visual, and it will not prevent small amounts of current. As far as victron showing 1.8a going in, im assuming that 1.8a is being used by standby...

Contact the manufacturer (EG4) is your best bet. I've seen FAR too many different sizes/types to be able to find one reliably. If someone has a good way of identifying/sizing them, I'd be very appreciative, but I dont think there is

There is always idle draw, but 500 watts is astronomical. Even 100 watts I would be concerned. How are you measuring this draw?

Thanks for that. I'll have to break out the laptop next weekend and go digging in the software.

Hey guys, i live full time in my RV, and I hooked up my kill-a-watt meter to my fridge (Norcold 2118) with it running on 120v. I ran it for 24 hours and it estimated 332Watts/Hour. This sounds abnormally high to me? Especially when I see some residential fridges are rated at roughly...

That is a good point. Difference in voltage could skew numbers a bit.

I would go lowest cost per watt, regardless of the physical dimension of the panel, as it seems the Cover you are building should be able to be stretched/shrunk a little bit to fit whatever panels you get. Ignore the bi-facials, you'll just pay more for power you arent going to use, since you...

I wonder what differs internally of the 5k and 12k to make the surge capabilities similar, but not the continuous rating?

I have an Onan 4000 in my 2014 Stealth trailer, and the Onan 5500 this trailer was considerably quieter. This Ryobi 2300 is quieter than the 5500, and you can still have a conversation next to it, but i think it's definitely louder than the Honda 2000s. As for the battery size. I would like...