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Just ticks me off when its cloudy all day and then clears up right around 5 pm........grrr

I appreciate you helping him, but a whole lot of us have these batteries, does your assistance need to be private ?

I just got today my lowest electric bill since my off grid system was installed last May. $18.51 for a 32 day month, and that includes a $5 fixed fee. so we used $13.51 of juice. previous best was last October $22.61 I already had a grid tie 11kw system, and added a 12kw off grid with 30kwh...

I use Solar Assistant for my off grid LV6548 with eg4 batteries, works great I also use Home Assistant as my main monitor because I have 2 other grid tie systems to monitor so with home assistant I can see all 3 systems on 1 screen, a 32" tv in my living rm the HA screen uses data from SA...

with you being in oil/gas country you could maybe do what I did in Texas I used the 3 inch pipe with ironridge system got my pipe as used oil pipe, very thick wall used Ospho rust treatment, then rustoleum rusty metal primer then rustoleum gray paint its been a year and its still perfect paid $5...

so I guess they will need special department to do investigations. room mates put the bill in the lowest paids name, even though both pay family has a 22 year old at home who flips burgers, put the bill in their name grandma on SS croaks and family never changes elec bill what a opening for...

I used a step drill bit on the smaller holes and a regular hole saw bit for the larger ones, worked ok still need to protect my battery cables ordered the gutter/raceway from elliot electric. combined a 6ft and a 2 ft

Im sorry, but you are making too much sense. This will NOT be tolerated

I am in NE Texas with 6 eg4 batteries and can not get thru the night with all this heat. also with 12kw panels I can not go below 35 percent SOC or I will not get back to 100 percent by evening, due to running the A/C causing a high load all day with your low usage 12kw panels and maybe 6...

Permit ?? whats a permit ?? Hunt county in NE TX. no permits, no inspections as long as you are not in the city limits built our own house from scratch. no paperwork needed including all electrical & plumbing the septic did require an inspection in addition to the off grid system I have 2 grid...

force you to buy it, then they tell you what they will pay you for the power you send them sounds a lot like obama care if you like your current solar plan, you can keep your solar plan yea OK sign us up

Retired Senior. sorry if many of us freaked out a bit after seeing your panels. this is a great forum and you can get real advise and help free here. when we look at the whole thing it is a bit hard to know where to start helping lets start with a few questions what type inverter do you have ...

The only T- Fuses I could get hands on are the go-power 300 amp., and that took 4 vendors to get also got the smart shunt batteries EG4 x 6 should I be using 4/0 battery cables for the entire system ? or is smaller size OK from inverters to buss, fuses are 300 amps also I did reverse the...

im putting up 2 arrays 6kw each using irinridge and 3 inch pipe I found a guy near Ennis TX about 80 miles from me , he sells used oil pipe mainly 2 3/8 and 2 7/8 but he has some 3 inch ( 3 1/2 OD) I got about 220 ft all cut to me specs and loaded on my trailer for $1000 total the steel yard...

I got the order confirmation switching to the 395w panels thanks to you and thanks to James for the upgrade and help look forward to picking them up

I have not received the usual notice to conserve, but I see on ercots web site that they look closer to edge than I have ever seen them. They like to have 6000 MW extra. tonight after sunset they are no where close glad my batteries are full and my backup gen has propane currently 105 F with...

I think your best tech support will be right here. seems to be a lot of posts about issues with those inverters, but I think many have seemed to be solved ? anyway, glad I went with the lv6548 mpp units. 9 months so far, zero issues...knock on wood I do wish mine could take over 250v though...

I agree Seems like many of these people want more and more stuff Parks, store, amenities We have bond election coming for a 65 million dollar rec center, and more school bonds too I am a he'll no for any and all of it They move to a smaller town then complain its small Good grief, go away

well I finally took a minute to look at chatgpt and try to see if it pertained at all to solar systems, asked a few basic questions and got the following answers anyone know of any add on type apps that could do electrical diagrams ? something like that could put some of the companies selling...

Well if you want freedom, Texas is still mostly free My wife and I build our own house with our 4 hands. No permits or inspections required, except for septic we have 2 grid tie systems, again no inspections and a off grid system as well, no inspections I did all electrical in the house and...

here is a copy of a post I made recently to someone asking similar question.. here is a pic of my system this is all in my workshop 100 ft from house the AC in comes thru the left most conduit up from the floor. In the small junction box below the gutter and transfer switch I used morris split...

I live in Texas and lost power during that storm. got about 30 minutes of juice every 12 hours for a couple days. so we added a 12kw off grid system on top of the existing 11kw grid tie I would vote for low rates vs winterizing for a 100 year storm anytime. sick of the government trying to...

Im using the dual setup with older model MPP LV6548 with the 250w pv input. and 6 batteries eg4 just past 1 year running the house. so far, never had to turn off system for any reason during last year hope it continues

Packscrapper, I guess I dont understand the problem I have 2 gridtied systems but also have an off grid "grid assist" system if the off grid system can not supply the loads then it uses the grid to help it. no interconnect agreement required, no transfer switch needed, all automatic with LV6548...

No no no, only if you Identify as unemployed, reality is not relevent

Ive been using them for a couple years and this is the first long outage I have noticed

I used the midnite solar baby box with 2 breakers/strings in each box, placed next to each inverter

ok I will stop complaining/ a white christmas would be nice, but you can keep the rest

OK. interesting post. maybe presented in a slightly know it all manner.... I agree that trying to get a fully automatic/smart load shedding/complete backup/while away from home/never fails system may require a crack pipe and/or a millionaires budget to get maybe 90-95% is easily doable, and...