Recent content by MajicDiver

If a product fits for me, I could careless who else uses it or what anybody thinks of it We’ve been off grid completely for almost a year with large home and no need for a generator (which I have) with two Growatt 11.4 version 2 MIN-US inverters and ARO batteries - lot of people don’t like the...

Curious what inverter model specifically you are referring to by “on grid Growatts”?

Not sure why you are puzzled- the path started by Carter and continued by Reagan, Clinton and 2nd Bush - the path of subsidizing research and development of methods of increasing fossil fuel production - read about “The Nonconventional Fuels (Section 29) Tax Credit went into effect in 1980“ and...

Agreed. The simple fact of the matter is in this country we place a higher value on quality of life than the Chinese and some other societies - most of Russian society being another large example. But, it is my prediction that we in this country are quickly getting to the point where we will...

I fail to see what opportunity was missed? Consider when the first internal combustion engines were conceived and “built” and when automobiles came into widespread use. Centuries. Even in these modern days technology takes much time to develop. The lithium battery chemistry most of us are...

We are loosing the south too………

I’d be calling them, I also found them to be very responsive to emails.

I was not intending to be derogatory towards him, sorry. I totally understand, and solar is expensive unless subsidized in some manner. What the power company does is very expensive also. At $24 per month, expect it to get to 3 to 4 times that or more in some areas eventually as grid tied...

Curious who ordered first? It would be interesting/educational if the difference is due to differences in date of order

Go off grid

My understanding from one of their people who was answering some battery questions I had is that they did not get them into their warehouse until last week and began shipping Friday.

Ok, use it to charge batteries on an ac coupled inverter, what they call in the diagram “grid connected inverter “.

I also do not know what “smart load” actually does, need to read manual and see it it gives many clues. For us, the “dump load” is manually setting the mini splits to 62 when it’s hot and sunny and let the schedule set them back when sun starts setting- we spend most of daytime outside, it’s...

Not if you are off grid. In my personal experience, to be off grid year round and “Never” need to use a generator, you must have significantly more battery and PV than you need >90% of the time. Typically our batteries are at 100% before lunch, in mild weather it’s about an hour. If we were...

When grid goes down, home load side goes down also.