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Looking on Amazon, I don't see much difference in the price of the Cerbo, Color Control, and Venus. Ideally I would just plug my laptop in if I wanted to see these stats. Is an interactive display required (laptop, smartphone, victron display, etc) for the GX unit to do what it needs to do...

I'm going to invest in a drill, wire cutters, wire strippers, wrenches, multi-meter, MC4 crimper, and a couple other small tools, since the tools will cost me less than paying what the installers are asking for here in Rioja, Peru. What I'm curious about is if I should keep investing in my...

The property we found here was absolutely the most beautiful piece of property we could find. It's an undiscovered gem sort of place that's completely underexploited touristically. Even though the house is going to be our personal home, in the future we're considering renting it for a few days...

I want to build a string box to parallel a 4s4p array. Does this look like the right components that I should buy to get the job done? I already have these components: So, I just need another fuse and fuse holder, one more of the gray squares where the negatives connect (I'm not sure what...

Wow, so the "Tesla Power Wall Clone" destroyed your household electrical system!?

Yeah, that's weird. It's almost like it's not meant for DC at all... https://www.etigroup.eu//images/product_db/levels/en-GB/4402_TD.pdf Well, I guess I'm about to find out if that's going to be a problem.

How did you come up with these numbers? 70amps times 48 volts? Would you please explain how the Multiplus produces 70amps output when the input is only limited to about 20amps? As far as I understand it, it has something to do with the fact that the input voltage of 220V is reduced to 48V, so...

Is this photo showing a circuit breaker in the On position or in the Off position?

Tell me again, what's the voltage of the battery bank inside the unit?

I need some tools to go fishing. Assuming I'm only running the cables from the panels 15ft. With the mc4 controller there will be 3 separate cables coming from the roof. With the TR (screw terminal) controller. There will be one cable but it will need to support ~32-33amps vs. The mc4 lines...

Actually, no one has the 410W Jinko Panel either. I did find one vendor with a 410W Amerisolar panel that looks nearly identical to the 400W Jinko as far as I can tell. I think this is probably my best option at this point. I know it's a different brand of panel, but that shouldn't matter...

If you can find Pylontech batteries in Nicaragua go with those instead. They're LiFePo4 batteries (LFP, Lithium Iron Phosphate), which are the best kind of solar battery. They have that brand here in Peru. I live in a similar climate to you, and I'm in a very remote area. I looked at all the...

Wow what a gauntlet. The three remaining batteries managed to reach a SOC of 91% today. They were stuck at 89% for almost the entire day, but managed to jump up to 91% later in the day. I decided to reconnect the fourth battery (the one that has been the most problematic) to the master position...

Given that this box is for the PV panel wiring (Direct Current), that doesn't sound too promising

That makes two of us.

In that case, maybe we can just post that follow up response as a separate, new thread.

Am I missing something here? Was it really necessary to do this?

When you say string what do you mean? How many strings are in an 4s3p array?

Thanks. yeah I saw that, but it still is a bit confusing, because I don't know what the squiggly lines mean, and it depends on your perspective from which side of the unit you're looking at it which is left and which is right. They should engrave a positive and negative symbol on the actual unit.

Let's say I have a LiFePO4 battery bank connected to a charge controller and a solar panel array and an off-grid inverter, and I turn on an electric oven that uses 4000w but my mppt is only outputing 3000w from the solar panel array, resulting in a net draw from the battery bank of 1000w. I...

haha. I like it. low-tech

My batteries were 20-24 Centigrade when that alarm came on.

I just want to double check with you pros here. It looks like the footnotes on my spec sheet basically give me the answer...but I want to be 100% sure: What happens if I connect a 6,400W PV array to this charge controller? Will it destroy my charge controller? I'm considering 4s4p with the...

Here's what I'm talking about when I say "higher end of the range" --- What is the "range" on the following victron unit below? Also, what is the allowed input? Is it the same as your 70A input on your 100A output MPPT??? I'm still a bit confused on this topic. If I use the same panels from...

How do you know those are the width x length dimensions of the LittleFuse in my photo on the other thread? This is the FEEO fuse holder the new distributor is looking to include. It looks like it says 10x38