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Do they mars ground their systems with marsing rods?

I get that the load is resistive, but the sound from the xw is quite pronounced, and I'm worried that it's causing excessive wear to the inverter. Should I not worry? It's an 1800W unit, and even pulses on heat-up, which I think is silly. It's stated it's for more even heat, which could have...

So, I heat my stock tank with two parallel thermal panels. Manually plug in an ac pump to an extension cord each day. I bought a kit to control it automatically with a few T probes. It has a horrible manual, but should have the ability to heat an aux tank, so I can overheat it and then heat...

Off grid and thinking of the proper way to swap out some new batteries. Can you remove batteries while the xw is in standby, or should the xw be "off?" Thinking of this order of operations: Turn off loads breaker Disconnect pv from sccs Put sccs in standby (or can I do this with pv still...

I have an XW+ that I've been using off-grid for four years. Nothing wrong with it. I'm about to power the system down to swap to different batteries, and was perusing the operators' manual for refreshing my mind, and I saw this: AC_Coupling AC Coupling function is enabled by default (Advanced...

So, I've been running 4x phi 3.5s for almost four years. Never thought I had any issues until recently. My generator almost never kicks on, and in fact my first two or three winters saw no generator activity other than exercise. 14kw Kohler would run for an hour and a half or a bit more...

Built some fuse holders to go inside some Sunpower batteries I am rebuilding. The straight tab on the left and the s tab on the right have female threads built in - the nuts on the bottom just hold the insulator and hence the fuse is supported. So, creep of the fiber insulator will not cause...

I had a previous and uneventful thread about trying to get some Sunpower 6.5 batteries working. I'm starting a new thread because I gave up on making them work, and am now in the process of stripping the existing bms and making the newer jk inverter bms work in these boxes. I have already done...

I'm not quite sure how I managed this, but my insight facility will not allow me to change and settings on one of my xwpros. I had managed to update the firmware, and had been messing around trying to get a bms recognized. I can power on the unit in standby, but the fan kicks on every minute...

My current system has been working more or less flawlessly for four years. One Schneider xw+, 2x mppt 60150, 5.7kw panels, 14kw kohler genny that almost never is needed, scp, gateway, and 4x simpliphi 3.5s, voltage controlled for 56V bulk/absorb for 6min and 54V float. Also ags for the kohler...

I inherited some surplus Carling DC 125A breakers that I'd like to use between my bms and inverter/charger. Some of the breakers came with some scrap/cut wire with lugs attached, which were attached to the breaker studs. The studs have two nuts and two washers each (plus one star washer...

Hi all, A friend had some sunpower battery systems that he modified to basically keep the xwpros that are in there, and asked if I wanted to try to use the batteries. They are mostly in the 52V range sitting there. They have some sort of internal relay that activates when you push the power...