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Got my last electric bill.....it was $35. $23 was for having the meter......$13 of actual use. This is from when I can't make it overnight on battery and grid kicks in for a boost. At $13 per month, it would take a long, long time to justify an additional battery. I believe I will let Mr...

I just wanted to thank every one who helped me figure this thing out. I ran the whole house yesterday on two EG4 6000's and only 18 of my 24 panels connected. Only two 5k Lifepower batteries for now. Did not know if it would make it through the night but it did. Can't wait to get the other 8...

Found the catalog where I purchased my Y2K system. Unisolar 12 volt panels....$369 for 64 watts (equal to $10.78 per watt in todays money) Trace DR 12 volt inverter $1283 then ( $2400 todays dollar) All is still working, it is the back up to my back up. Thank God what you get for your...

If anyone else is having firmware update problems...Ryan at SS had me go to the settings menu on my PC....did this with the serial port cable plugged into the computer...It immediately recognized that I needed the Silicone labs cable driver update....it installed instantly and my update could...

Put the second mini split up today and it seemed harder than the first. But one thing I wish I would have done is mount the plate to a piece of plywood and then mount the plywood to the wall. It seems like none of these plates are drilled for 16" OC stud spacing. There is plenty of room...

Got the third EG4 6000 inverter and two more lifepower batteries hooked up last night....first day of sunshine, cloudy morning, all 24 panels going...... 36.6 KW .....maybe all the effort is going to be worthwhile.....Maybe.....

Thank God China bought off the blithering old fool......I may need some more panels soon. https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/business/2023/05/17/bill-to-protect-u-s-solar-panel-makers-from-chinese-competition-vetoed-by-biden/

Now that my firmware is updated....apparently I produced the highest Kw for my system to date. With 16 of my 24 panels, I made 24 KW today.....can't wait to get the other inverter and batteries here to get me to my design goal of around 35 KW per day. Independence is a nice feeling....

I am hoping that the pre order of the 24K mini splits is going to ship soon so that I can try the two I bought in my barn before I run out of hot weather. 14 panels completed on barn roof today.....hurry little mini split, hurry up!

Had problems updating the EG4 6000's......Ryan with SS has always been a great help and hooked me up with Ty who was able to remotely do the update on inverter number one. I kindly thanked him and told him I would do the other two. He was leaving in about an hour so let him know how it went on...

Got my EG4 24K mini split up and running this morning. So far I only have it running of grid AC. In the next couple of days I will wire the other side of the transfer switch to tie in to my inverters. When I find a good deal on some extra panels to run straight to it, I will have the perfect...

EG4 6000 running three inverters, have always had horrible flicker with incandescent lights. Did up date last Monday and again Friday. Host inverter is still different from slave inverters and flicker did not go away. Today, I am making 3KW per inverter and at 60% use on each leg. Stove...

How many DIY solar members are women. I mean the real kind, not the new fake ones. From the technical and logical aspect of this endeavor I see post that are 99.9% from men. The other .1%, when I see it, I thank God I am able to scroll down......

Just a heads up....where I live dirt daubers are a horrible problem. They will crawl into anything possible to build their dirt nest. This can play havoc with electronics. So today I plugged up the holes where my PV input and battery input go into the bottom of my EG4 6000's. There are air...

Finally got my barn minisplit....one more on the way.....can't wait to see how workable it keeps the barn this winter....Thank you Signature Solar for bringing products to the market at a reasonable price....otherwise I could not afford to do these kinds of things.....(anybody know of a way to...

Well it happened again. My three EG4 6000's reset themselves and changed all the setting....went from appl to Ups Volts went from 120 to 110 and most concerning, HZ went from 60 to 50 and battery changed from user to FLooded....this happened while I was away today. THis is the second...

I recently had a post deleted because it "was not helpful"....Oh contraire.....I said you can either be a victim or an overcomer. This is the first step in solving any problem in life. On my path to solar, I watched every single video Will Prowse had up. What impressed me most about Will was...

I am going into withdrawal......got to have my fix.....where are the EG4 mini splits? Still on the boat?

Before I fry something, what voltage do I run the charge verter at? 48 volt system.

I have struggled with getting this right so as not to fry my equipment.....but today I threw the back feed lock out and fed my two EG4 6000's into my main house panel. I have separated out my heavier 240 volt loads, water heaters, dryer, stove, into their own sub panel. With the T.V. and...

Has anyone used the cd rom Solar Power monitoring software that comes with the EG4 6000 inverters? I don't know what it does and can't get it to unzip on my windows 10 desktop. Is it worth the trouble to get it working? I usually just check my inverters display daily to see what is going on...

Can't get my EG4 6000's to work together in parallel. Only slave inverter is allowing PV input and AC output. Disconnected the linking power and com cables. Set them both back to single. Out put breaker for #2 slave AC out is off. AC out put breaker for No1 host is on. AC in breakers to both...

Worth it to add a small electric tankless water heater in line after my electric tank type? This way I can use timers to only run the tank heaters during the day when solar is strong and have them set to be off at night and early morning. They (two) come on at least once or twice during the...

I am clueless on how to mount these sharp panels to my garage roof. I want to use the 6" mini rail from SS and some end clamps and mid clamps, but which ones? My panels have about a 3/8" thickness, then an indentation with a 5/8 width and then a 1" thick part, for a total thickness of 2" on...

Pardon my ignorance and my lack of cold, hard facts, but a friend of mine apparently purchased some panels and a growattt grid tie inverter last year and has been having problems with it since day one. No batteries, his electric coop offsets his usage one for one with what he produces. He has...

After reading all the SOK battery debacle thread....I have a question. If I depend on my EG4 600's inverter to charge my Lifepower batteries, currently set to 56.2 and 54 float.....do I ever need to do a balancing charge on each battery seperately? Disconnect them from the bank and balance? My...

I rcvd a 20 ' length of PV wire that I ordered as 10awg and got 12 awg instead.....this is to connect from the end of eight panels to my IMO disconnect switch. The other side which is closer to the switch already has 10 awg ready to go.....does anybody see this as a problem? Go ahead and hook...

So, trying to get all my batteries balanced today. Inverters only running the aircondtioner in the battery room. When I turned on the chargerverter that is plugged into my harbour freight generator, generator not running mind you, I just turned on the chargeverter to see if the voltage it...

So...Under USE setting on EG4 6000 setting #14, I set bulk at 56.2, float at 54. As Tim explained setting float at 54 was the most voltage I was ever going to see. Today I changed setting #14 back to EG4 and Use on the slave inverters. Same 56.2 and 54. Others have said that the EG4 values...

Can anyone confirm what the latest firmware is for the EG4 6000? I am running U1 63 11 and U2 61 08 having random shutdowns and now SS is saying I may need to do another update. Don't want to go to the time and trouble if I am really up to date.