Just wanted to say thanks to all that helped me through my journey into solar electric freedom. Today my system produced 27,280 watt hours before it filled my 1200ah 48v battery bank. I've been off the electric grid for a week now. I have 6.6kw of solar panels.
Is there a way to build a water turbine to power this battery charger? The AC input is AC90-240V + 20% (see attachment)
What components would I need to get the input voltage within this range?
Would I need a dump load or cutoff switch if I went over or under the voltage?
Any other info is...
Because of my location in the winter, the best location for my panels is approximately 350ft away from my house. I will gain 2 more hours of sunlight per day at this distance. Is this possible, and what wire size would I need to run between my panels and the charge controller?
I have an old 3 phase panel that is not in use anymore. It has some 3 pole breakers, my question is can I use the 3 pole breakers for my input breaker coming from my lvx 6048, but only use 2 poles to power up the panel. This would be my sub panel.
60 amp 3 pole breaker if that matters.
Here is my setup. See pictures.
My main concern is when I put the batteries in parallel at the busbar, is the length of the + cable and - cable. (See pictures, green arrows are areas of concern) my positive cables are much longer than the negative cables. The BMS is my negative cable and goes...
What size capacitor would I need for mitigating power dips and spikes when larger loads start or stop? AC, stove, washing machine, etc....
Also my washing machine does not like the power output from a single LVX 6048, it does better when I run 2 in parallel but it is still not working properly...
12 460watt solar panels
51 voc
11.5 amps
Ran in 6s 2p
I need to stay under 450v for my LVX 6048. I have 2 of these units.
So my question is if I run 6 panels in series and then run 2 sets in parallel, then run 2 10awg wires to my set of LVX 6048's, then split those 2 wires into 4 wires at the...
I'm assuming I have a short somewhere but I'm also a little stumped.
My solar arrays are 400ft from the house. I ran 5 wires through plastic conduit, 2 hot, 2 neutral and 1 ground. I'm getting 120 AC voltage on every wire even though they're not connected to the LVX 6048. I get voltage from L1...
I have 2 different solar arrays, one is 5520 watts, 6s 2p running on 2 wires down to the house to 1 LVX 6048. The other is 1440 watts, 6s running on the other 2 wires to a 2nd LVX 6048. When the sun comes out strong the small array cuts wattage power down to basically nothing, but when it's...