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  • Electrical Inspection - Circuit Breakers / Busbars in Jbox? Exterior Disconnect?

    I’m currently on a temporary Certificate of Occupany. In an off-grid home. Things in question that the electrical inspector didn’t know the answer to: 1. Busbars outside of the battery rack that split and go to each inverter - Do they need to be in junction boxes? They have covers over the...
  • Off-Grid Farm

    Just upgraded the no-till off-grid farm a bit (well more of a market garden than a farm haha). So far it consists of a solar well pump powered by 2x 12v 100w panels in series, that pumps the well water from the well, up to the farm and fills 2x ~300gal cube tanks. Then to pump the water out...
  • Do circuit breakers allow for surge wattage?

    Hello! I have a system very similar to Wills EG4 240v system. https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/48v-complete-system-blueprint.html I am only now getting it installed. I’m a little confused about the circuit breakers installed after the inverter output. Wouldn’t a 60amp circuit breaker limit...
  • EG4 6500 - stuck low PV voltage

    Hello! I have 2x inverters, (running split phase). 3 strings of 340W panels, 2x strings of 7 panels and one of 6 panels. Inverter 1 is receiving a 7 panel input and 6 panel input. Inverter 2 just receives a 7 panel input. Inverter 1 will almost always have panel voltage above 90v. Inverter 2...
  • Help me move into my new home

    Hello! (Mods feel free to move this to a different thread category if it seems like it belongs somewhere else). I am moving into a new home on my property finally after living off-grid on the property in a camper for 8 years. I’m keeping my new home off-grid. I had a solar engineer help me...
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