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No actually I was gonna just kinda lay the nuts on top of the lugs gently without actually tightening them, and put a tortilla between...

Don't read too much into this. It can be increasing resistance, but it may not be significant assuming you're doing it right. For...

I stacked 2 bars to get enough mass for 300 amps. edit to add, Blue Sea and BEP make link bars and joiner bars that are a little more...

I'm curious about this as well. I just wired up my system and I'm not using fine stranded wire like they recommend. This sounds a bit...

My point is that everything has resistance. The reason you want to minimize the number of connections in your system is because every...

I’m at the hooking up panels phase and I’ve managed to confuse myself. The 10 gauge wire I’m seeing for use with panels doesn’t appear...

It's not exactly like thicker wire though. The two bus bars are not one solid conductor, there will be some small resistance between...

I didn't notice that you are stacking two bus bars. I don't think that's necessary and may actually add more resistance. I would just...

I think this should be fine. The resistance of one of the bus bars that came with my LF304 cells is about 0.06 mohm measuring from hole...

I believe that calendar aging and technological advancement will render any possible increase in cell life insignificant. My cells...

I’m thinking you’re in the ballpark. Considering the smaller cable, longer length and different meter, it’s well within reasonable...

Thanks for the reply Skypower! This is exactly it! I haven’t put my system into service yet, but as I measure all of these individual...

When you use that meter as such, the levels are so low that you have to use the data for your own purposes and can’t be compared...

Those were both resistance and voltage readings. I was looking for correlation or verification of each other, which I found. The...

I'm in the process of crimping cables to set up my system and this picture is very helpful as a basis of comparison (assuming those...

I used a wire nut in my combiner box for one of my arrays to splice 10 (from panels), 8 (to inside) and 14 (SPD) gauge wires together...

Things are progressing nicely. My battery box design has been completed and is now being manufactured: I made it up to the cottage...

99.2% totality at my house. Production went down to 15w, and recovered shortly after. Battery lost 1%, during the eclipse. I was a two...

My wife's first husband, big into computer overclocking. Ended up drilling into freezer section of their fridge to eek out more...

My BMS IR reading has so far reliably indicated when a bus bar was not tightened enough, which seems kind of like a confirmation of your...