Recent content by scrubjaysnest

The quick and dirty hit 910wH today. Worked on mounting the Midnight Solar mini baby box and 2 Victron 100/20 mppt's. Mounted to a 1/4 inch thick sheet of aluminum. Since I haven't decided whether to mount the plate flush to wall I went ahead and counter sunk flat head screws. The mini baby box...

Stone fire ring, not much control over embers. When I can like sit there with morning coffee and watch the sun rise.

Dug into the existing solar on the new nest. What a mess, 10 awg from cc minus goes to some kind of terminal I never seen before. 2 - 22 awg leave and go somewhere. CC was showing 7 amps to batteries but there was a good 2/10 volt drop. Disconnected panel input, corrected battery wiring and...

Had to put the morning fire on hold, red flag warnings and gusts to 60 mph.

Mine is the PWM, got msview and instructions. At this time we have no plans to change anything on the motorhome. The new nest is a different thing. We have 4 100Ah LiFePO4 and 2 Victron 100/20 mppt cc's to use there. Also a 3000 watt inverter. The new nest came with a 30 amp go power pwm...

Been at the desert nest for almost 3 weeks. AGM house batteries survived the winter just fine. Marginal AGM cranking battery also survived. A few minor fitting leaks to tighten. Must not have gotten every drained. New nest is due in Saturday. It has a few nice things, both refeers are 12...

He had a few nuggets among all the rants

Some wiring diagrams are on the Thor forums. Also I had some emailed to me by tech support.

3 way is how we did it at the power plant I worked at over 20 years ago.

On our 2016 Axis the slide and awning are interlocked with the E450 ignition system. If ignition is on can't open the slide or awning. Relays are located below drivers seat reached through outside storage. The Trombetta is only used when engine is running to charge house batteries. I removed...

Cartridge type fuses are the worst for that type of failure. I use breakers or for fuses MRBF. The MRBF fuse isn't meant for that application.

Its all the batteries will take.

Some of us can no longer pick up 100# batteries or handle 4ft x 4ft 50# panels.

Just saw my first solar scam. The ad shows to watt hour meters, one on left shows $250 per month without solar and the one on the right showed $15 per month with solar grid tie. Not here in FL. I should have kept the web address to post here. Edit, here is link to suspect scam...

Your local codes, NEC, and NFPA rule residential.