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Excellent, thanks for that! These are sealed lead acid batteries, zero maintenance type, I am sure they are lead acid?? That still work?

I have realized that my system does not function well during a week of low pressure clouds and rain. I have acquired a 3000W generator to run the house during the day, leaving the solar to recover the batteries using what little light there is, around 200w if I'm lucky. Can I plug a regular...

El Pinche will hopefully be zapped before I am... Thank you all for your advice, comments and time. I will do what I can and hope for continued sunshine! Saludos!

From the controller 28.1 To the inverter 27.8

I also thought it was a bit high, however the pool pump had just switched on as I took that reading, maybe a spike? The reading is now 27.8, which sounds a bit more reasonable. Our controller display never reads more than 28.3v on charge.

- Currently 30v - I seemed to have confused the terminology between series and parallel - my apologies

@Bob142 Great, so I have it to the point of the first diagram. I would have to add the bus bars to get to the second diagram and then finally link one set of batteries to make a midpoint. I shall try and source bus bars, seems simple enough.

@smoothJoey - Yes, you are quite right, the individual batteries are 12v 100ah batteries - I was instructed to wire 4 batteries in series to maintain the 12v and add the amp hours to 400 - these two are then connected in parallel to create a 400 amp hour 24v system, which is required to feed my...

Thank you @Bob142 and @smoothJoey I shall do that as soon as the sun goes down this evening. Easy fix that one! @Craig Thanks for the update - If I do that then 1 - 4 and 5 - 8 batteries will have all their positives connected to positives and negatives connected to negatives as well as the top...

Thank you for the responses thus far. I would like to point out that we live in the extreme southern part of Mexico, where availability of all these gadgets is strictly by import - which is hellish expensive. If I was to import all the additional goodies mentioned, I could just as well have...

Hi All, Brand new to this forum and would appreciate a little input. We installed a rudimentary solar system on the south east coast of Mexico (where sunlight is abundant 340 days a year) about 14 months ago and have noticed that our discharge rate seems coincidentally weird. I am including a...