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The y2k reference was a response to Supervstech's post that is above mine but on the previous page so I guess it looks like I started talking about y2k stuff for no reason.

The code part I'm referring to (which is why I said CHIPS not code) was the morons saying microwave ovens were going to explode and your furnace was going to burn your house down. The solar part that has caught my interest was the maps which seem to indicate only those closest to the poles have...

Nah its easy. You just ship a small pale of dirt from earth for each spot you need an earth ground :)

So far Chins are my favorite 12v and 48v batteries :) Flawless results for my needs.

This ^ is my method.

I spent months trying to convince people the world wasn't going to end with the y2k stuff. Even people I knew in the computer field for years were determined chips would go bonkers every time they were turned on after 2000. I didn't even bother staying up on new years that year. Wife woke me up...

I LIKES!

So tomorrow is the worst of it?

Fairly cloudy in Alabama last night and couldn't see anything different at all. We miss all the cool stuff :( I wonder if that means this area would be immune from really bad flares in the future.....

While the ip6048 seems to have all kinds of problems from what I have read the tp6048 rocks and being low frequency will run well pumps just fine.

Is this one the forum here? Best I can tell its not set to require that here.

Isn't much flaunting when my block is lit up and the rest of the areas are dark :) Plus if 1/2 of the people I talked with do what they claim (which just might happen from the follow up calls I got today) the surrounding blocks should all have solar to some extent.

Well I guess power surged again last night since the small 12v system's inverter was off when I got up this morning. I'm going to sift thru the videos from last night and catch when it cut off to see if there was another strike. The good news though is that the rerouting of wires and turning off...

Well it went north and south of me and I got lucky. Feel sorry for the ones down south of here. They are getting fried.

Yep its not pretty.

Well the storm split and it looks like I may get lucky and the gap pass over here.

I switched the pv breaker off. That's about all I can do about.

Each flashing lightning bolt is real time lightning strikes.....

OMG. Check this out !!! https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,33.090,-85.638,9 On the right side of the screen click the radar icon. Then click the play icon at the bottom. That is whats coming my way right now :(

It was out about 5 or 6 hours total. Was a little cloudy earlier today and then bam sttttrong winds and rain. A tree fell across the drive and server others are leaning now from it. Hoping I can get the power company to cut them down for free since they are going to take out the main power lines...

Powers back ! Also people keep pulling into my yard asking about my solar setup :)

Power company is estimating power back in 3 hours.

Lightning, rain and heavy winds. Powers out for half the county and I'm sitting here enjoying my solar setup :) Had to share ! For some reason my neighbors are not sharing my enthusiasm :unsure:

Yep and that's what happened to me not long ago. I'll have a midnight solar MNSPD-600 installed on the lines from my panels this Saturday to help with indirect lightning surges. One showing the small 12v inverter kicking off when it hits and you can see and hear the surging arcing. Then an...

Maybe Jess will get you fixed up.

Yep. I'm reading up on it more and more to decide what to use.

Heltec LoRa32 V3

Not yet but I'm looking at it.

I have no clue how their prices compare with anyone else on whatever product. That said I do host a BUNCH or online stores for companies. Shipping is, to put it simply, a pain in the arse for any online store. They have no control over what it presented half the time by a shipper. Be it fedex...

The way I'm changing stuff on my setup the all in one sungold tp6048 will continue powering the house and most of my panels will go thru its charge controller. I will be ordering an eg4 100 amp charge controller to charge the batteries using the remaining panels. This way the extra panels can...

That makes sense until you factor in being able to buy 2 or 3 all in ones for the price of one setup via components. Plus the all in ones are repairable if you buy the right one. You just replace the bad board if something happens and those boards at least with my tp6048 are WAY cheaper than...

The problem is going to be the 5 ton heat pump that is on the other house. I will measure its startup surge before deciding. I'm more interested in reliability than efficiency at this point. My mother lives in that house and I don't want her to even know I converted it to solar so she won't...

I got lucky on the mounting part since it didn't use a bracket to mount the original battery just a rubber tie down strap. I just went further out from where they had the strap attached on each end so that made it just right to hold the smaller battery in place.

Oh and it didn't cost but $99 off amazon vs $75 for a mower battery from the napa store in town. Win win !

The factory battery that came in my Exmark zero turn was pathetically undersized. I don't remember the exact rating but I think it was around 275cca. I have always had problems with it kicking back when trying to start it. The hotter the mower got from use the worse the problem got. To the point...