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Been working on this for a while, and finally got it up and running in November. This has been pretty much to prove if you have an EV(Truck, or a little less so, car) and have as little as $5-6k available that you are ok with waiting on a 4-5 year return on, this is stupid easy. Here is a link...

Not for everyone, as we have low wind levels here, and this build is all about cutting corners and getting to payoff quicker. 3.6kw ground and fence mount. This was two of the Eco-worthy ground mount kits with some unistrut added. Single axis auto-tracking should be implemented by the weekend...

Been working through some issues, but I now seem to have a working, albeit too expensive, single-axis,linear actuator, Arduino controlled, panel lift. Once I have some materials sorted it’ll be likely, around $100/panel, and then around $70-100 for the tracker electronics, which will, for me...

Have begun our Frankenstein semi-ground mount tracking 3.6kw offgrid array to charge our Ford Lightning, and a 10kw battery bank, and power a Garage Mini-split to be named later... It will all be providing shade to a 3-4 bed, raised bed salad garden with rain-barrel fed, and arduino controlled...

Well, no experience with Sol-Ark, but for SS, I think I’ve had my first and last interaction just trying to buy a product. Poor system management, and it appears that there is very little consideration for the customer’s time. They apparently have enough business to be able to do so.

This all looks fun, integration with HA, but I was super happy when I booted up SA and it had everything I really needed. I do data monitoring like this all day, every day at work, and I just don't want to get too far into the weeds on my own time. I've already spent significant time previously...

our 10 x 360w longi's from santan are producing over 3.1kW peak times now 100 feet on 8awg to an EG4 6000ex. Wasn't expecting only 15% loss from used panels. Our new panasonics on the roof with enphase micros at best produce 4.6ish on the 5.4kw system. Just had a one day production record of...

six total, two in the shed that have been going for close to two years, running a 9k btu mini-split, and now these 4 for the truck charger project. We'll likely add another 4 here by March. I don't have to tell you all, how much time it saves. Just checked prices, and it looks like they are up...

I'm using a cheap, 8" lenovo android tablet through the VRM portal. It's not ideal(a bit slow), but obviously, can also be used for other things.

One thing. I bet the guys that designed the Pontiac Aztek get together every now and again and probably have a few and mention, “Yeah, we could have done better…” I wonder if they guys that designed the VeDirect cable connector conclude they could have made that assembly more robust, as it’s...

Pioneer 21 SEER, 9k btu, from home depot for $750, for an 8x14 art studio shed, mainly for the sub 1100 watt max power usage. It has worked well for us, in a shed that only has one layer of R9 fiber board insulation. It's not perfect, but can keep it around 25 degrees below ambiant. It struggles...

Jehu Garcia has recent videos on a mobile system. I'm going to do a standalone, off-grid, split phase, 48v dual system like what Will has here to power a mini-split for my garage, and charge our Ford Lightning.

Hope it's not windynation, as I have about $180 of their 8awg for a 60-100 foot run.

Today will be the first full sun day with the increase range of travel, but from a half day of sun, yesterday, the evening production increase would seem to be significant. We had some strange numbers yesterday, like the first time over 3kwh production, all the way up to 3.5kwh for a short...

I'm using some of the Arduino IOT stuff for a solar powered smart garden and monitoring the 18650 battery that powers it. It's pretty DIY and requires some simple C++ but it can be monitored from the cloud, and you can control relays from the cloud as well. The youtube link is my channel. Not...

I'm guessing if I go in, they probably aren't there, which makes this one of the later versions, I assume, and the relay isn't functioning? I added a bond in the panel, and everything seems golden now. Ground fault on the Ford Charge Station Pro went away, and we got our first day of sun in...

Now sent an e-mail as suggested to the sales e-mail, (and just now, the support e-mail just found) because, in the tech support section they suggest sending an e-mail, but don't appear to actually supply the e-mail to send it to... Unfortunately, working with SS has put this youtube channel...

It’s 9:50 am, and I was at 2250w and I moved the panels to about horizontal, and it dropped to 1750w, so it’s obviously effective. I’ll overlay data over the last full sun day when the panels were at only 14 degrees, Not perfect, as we’re getting better sun as it’s two more weeks into better...

Once I got to 1.5 years of no issues with powerqueen 12v 200ah batts, I stopped DIY on batts. Takes too much time from the rest of projects. Now that they are down to $475, (or like $450 for lightly used returns) I don't see myself going back unless I get into EV mobility packs at some point. We...

Will do, thanks for the heads up.

Anyone post this yet. This guy is using this for commercial lawn care: I built my own 24v shed system for my Ryobi stuff.

Ballast mounts ? We're doing a project that might benefit from that, if it's what I think it is.

Well... I'm two Victron's in, and although there are some obvious monitoring benefits, I'm not seeing a performance reason to choose them over Epever. If you are relatively tech savvy, you can get whatever monitoring you want out of the Epever(they have an available API.) It's too bad the US and...

Have a 9k btu pioneer in an offgrid outdoor 8x14 shed, in Texas. It takes 1200 watts of used panels to run the pioneer, with an 80amp charge controller, 4000watt inverter, and we scrape by with 24v/200ah of Iifepo4 batteries. The Pioneer runs at around 720 watts in the summer, and the panels...

That same unistrut is what we supplemented to two ecoworthy ground mount systems to semi-ground mount 10 x 360 watt panels along a fence with a single axis tracking system. Are you getting any bowing of the unistrut ? Wondering if it's 12 or 14 gauge ?

We’ll also be moving the connections of the top of the actuators closer to the fence along the grid, and then move the cinder footings another inch closer and see what increase we get. I think it will affect the overall stability of the ground mount, so I don’t want to move it too close, unless...

It's always strange to hear about these issues with the Epever. I've never had any of these with my AN 80amp and 30amp. That said, their monitoring functions via wifi and cloud have gone downhill, and it's forced me to give up on them and move to Victron, probably not for a solid reason other...

As coded, the system seems to be working well. I get a wierd panel lift at night occasionally. My code is not commented yet, so forgive me, and remember this is with the arduino cloud code, so you'd also have a thingProperties.h file and a secrets file... this is not the final. I'll likely...

I did a swap to Victron Controller, Cerbo GX, and added a smartshunt. We're testing all of this for a future move to a central america, off-grid location in the near future. There have been some people that have reported a significant difference in the Victron's output vs. the Epever. This...

Connected the refurb 6000ex AIO I got from Signature Solar, and output L1 to ground is 109v, and L2 to ground is 131v. What would cause that? I’m assuming it needs to go back. Wonder if that was the original problem as the system looks like it was dropped or something.