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  • The Minion

    Inspired by Will’s statement that you could put your system in a box, I built a box:) It’s a small portable (I attached wheels and a handle!) set up, 50ah lifepo4 drop in battery with built in bms, 1000w pure sine wave inverter, 20amp mppt charge controller, Aili coulomb meter (thanks for the...
  • Exide battery!

    Found this glass battery being used as a flower vase... none of your plastic batteries, recycled glass too!?
  • What are our reasons for going over to solar power?

    Taking control of your energy usage by installing solar means you have the opportunity to answer the question... How much is enough? ...we all calculate usage to enable us to design our systems but where do you start, do you look at how much grid tied energy you consumed over the previous 12...
  • Pwm v’s Mppt

    My real world experiment, goal zero yeti lithium v’s (in the yellow corner) the minion! GZ pwm charge controller, 100w solar suitcase produces 68w Minion with mppt charge controller, using the same 100w solar suitcase panel in the same position produces 98w In my ever so scientific test the...
  • Inverter life times

    My house solar is 20 years old, the first inverter psw was a non branded red steel box from Germany, it had one green light, no switch, so it was permanently connected, it lasted 14.5 years then went bang! Cost about 500€ The next one was physically much bigger, has three lights, an on off...
  • You have to admire...

    ...the output of a single *Renogy 100w panel this morning (Other panels are probably just as efficient, POIDH) ?
  • Hi from Portugal

    I live in Portugal, my house is off grid and my solar set up is now 20 years old! I also have a separate set up in my workshop based on a yeti 1400 lithium and I have just built a portable system thanks to Will’s great YouTube vids
  • Kill switch on portable solar generator

    Bit of a newbie dumb question here...but...if you disconnect (kill switch) the battery so that the charge controller is switched off do I loose the user defined parameters set up through the Bluetooth dongle. Renogy CC with Bluetooth dongle to set parameters for lifepo4 battery. I don’t want to...
  • Connecting goal zero panels to anything not goal zero!

    I have a goal zero panel and a yeti 1400 and I have an mc4 to goal zero 8mm adapter so I can connect my Renogy panel to the yeti. What if I want to connect my goal zero panel to anything other than the yeti? The panel has a male 8mm plug the only adapters available have male 8mm plugs too as...
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