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"I live back in the woods you see My woman and the kids and the dogs and me I got a shotgun a rifle and a four-wheel drive And a country boy can survive ..." Nobody better tell me I can't collect rainwater, there are serious consequences!

Yeah, but a tax for grid maintenance, or whatever, has to be adjusted by how much you put back into the system to make things fair. Some folks will add more than others and many will just draw current.

Well, darn, I guess I didn't generate enough interest. If I go with the Giandel, what quirks can I expect? Does anyone have a better solution in the poor man's budget in the $500 to $600 range? What would be a good 120-volt A/C to 24-volt DC charger that would play well with the Giandel if I go...

I went with the 24-volt 4000-watt Giandel inverter. The new Dometic A\Cs have a soft start built-in.

So, I need two balancers in my setup, one at the mid voltage point of each set of series batteries, right? This will keep each set of series 12 to 24-volt batteries in balance with each other.

I had looked at AIO setups before, and they're okay, but in my case, I like the separate components for various reasons. One is space. It all has to fit under the driver's side rear twin bunk. Look at the image above. I'll have just enough room for the four batteries, inverter, charger, and...

Can you adjust for wind speed direction and pavement type?

I'm going with multiple SCCs to avoid maxing out anything, and that's also my reasoning on the voltage. Watts are watts, but the amperage/current halves from 12 to 24-volts and halves again going to 48-volts. If it weren't for the AC and occasional air compressor and my high-end computer...

What's the best resistor for pre-charging my inverter when connecting it to the battery bank; 400ah at 24VDC, 100ohms, or bigger?

I love the schematic, nicely laid out, well-labeled, and easy to follow. At a glance, it looks good to me. The AIMS 12/24-volt, that's for charging via alternator while driving? (1) Yeah, I would too. (2) I can't see a reason why you can't, but someone else might. That's really similar to the...

I like Ramen too, and yeah, one can dress them up for all kinds of dinner occasions. In the oilfields, it was ramen, Vienna sausages on Ritz crackers, or PB&J sandwiches for a quick lunch on the go.

Yep, I'm looking at MPPT SCCs and solar panels myself. I'm on a budget, retired old fart is my profession, so I avoid all of the bells and whistles.

Well, dude, you don't want to go and buy the most expensive battery for your testbed, get you a cheap Universal 12v 100ah battery from Amazon for less than$200 and see if how that works out. From that experiment, you have some baseline knowledge with which to make better decisions on your actual...

Remember, every fuse adds resistance and therefore restricts current flow, just like undersized cables and poor connections. Fuse properly, but don't over fuse.

I just bought four Chins, and they're solid batteries for the price.

Now that's an interesting question, and could even be its own thread. What we did on John's boat, we're still getting ready for mine, was have 12 LiFePO4 100ah batteries wired in a 4s3p series and parallel configuration to produce 48VDC at 300ah. That is 3 banks of 4 batteries each bank (pack)...

Here you go, for the price, these are tough batteries, and I have a friend, mentioned above, who has used two of these for three or four years now at his camp, and on his boat. He'll use them three or better days at the camp and charge when he gets home. Not much access to sun and wind out in...

As for the choice of equipment, what's your budget, tier 1 or working-class?

Yep, 4s2p Two sets of 4 in series and parallel the resulting two batteries.

Why?

How did Solar City work? They provided the hardware and grid, and customers paid a flat rate or something like that? It looked kind of interesting and unique best I remember. Interesting idea and we need to do something.

Well, if one wanted to test both lead-acid and lithium side by side, yeah, and if one wanted to play with lithium sure, but if you're trying to learn how it all works first to see if it's the solution for your application, well then get a less expensive battery to play with. You don't have to...

LoL, I love the emoticon! It fits.

Yeah, I see; just connect the two midpoints to the balancer.

Yeah, I'm going to have some small 12-volt fans on a thermostat.

Well, I'm glad that question is somewhat answered, and I think many of us assumed all along that by not taking our batteries down the manufacturers DOD specifications that we're, for lack of a better way to put it at the moment, saving on charge cycles, but are looking for someone we think an...

By that, you mean how your N-G bond differs from model to model? I'm still getting my head around this bonding thing.

This is the inverter I'm looking at. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D1LRKY5/?coliid=I1NJ385C9B959W&colid=2B56G7HPZITC2&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

And four of these batteries...