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Lightning, rain and heavy winds. Powers out for half the county and I'm sitting here enjoying my solar setup :) Had to share ! For some reason my neighbors are not sharing my enthusiasm :unsure:

This was wild :) This is what happens when the magic smoke gets out of your inverters !

Being able to monitor the solar setups is required of course and one of the things that was ticking me off was not being able to use bluetooth except while standing beside the equipment basically. I needed to monitor it from my computer room which is over 100 feet away easily and also when not...

I finished putting the first of the eco-worthy solar racks together. Ive got to pickup the concrete footers for them tomorrow. Better made than I expected actually and was fun assembling :) I will only be able to put two of the 450 watt renogy's on each rack.

A spammer posted these this morning and got deleted but I snagged the pics before they deleted the thread. Figured I'd put them here... I thought they looked cool.

Well not really news worthy to most but to me it was the final straw to finishing my primary solar setup. I moved the last heat pump (mini split) over to solar. So the entire house except for the stove, hot water heater, dryer and a few kitchen outlets are all on solar now. I will be adding...

I ran into a problem that others on the forum had and I got it fixed so I wanted to share. First a warning. If you own a Sungold TP6048 DO NOT disconnected the removable displays rj45 connector without first disconnecting it from ALL power sources. I mean AC in, DC in aka batteries, AND solar...

I was sooo happy that my solar setup was lowering my power bill on a nice flat curve as in each purchase just moved me that much closer to covering all my needs. I had the power usage per day cut in half and was looking to cut it in half again. The my grand daughter wanted to stay with use...

Wasn't sure where to put this but it was cool to watch someone trying to figure out what to do during the outage and didn't have the system installed when the outage happened :)

Figured I would share. I REALLY hate clouds :(

Hadn't seen this posted and found it interesting so sharing.

I solved a problem I was having that I thought others might benefit from. Well at least those of us that keep fish for pets :) The wife and I had the brilliant idea a few years ago to go in to the fish raising biz. Betta fish, snail, angel fish, etc. Then prices dropped like rocks and we lost...

Working on the sites picture resizing and I needed something big to post so here is the inside of my tp6048 :)

I ordered a 10 panel pallet from santan solar today. Will add another 2900 watts to the system. Should cover all of my needs for now. Next Ive got to get off my butt and order the system for the house beside the one I live in. Luckily on that one I can mount them to the roof so it should be...

I didn't know where to post this one. Funny as all get out ! https://www.foxnews.com/us/unlikely-animal-falls-from-sky-knocks-power-out-thousands-new-jersey-town

I posted this in another thread as a response and it got me to wondering how every one really felt on this issue. Here's what I had posted : --- I have what I'm sure is considered a weird stance on feeding power to the grid to probably 99% of this site and probably the world. I don't think we...

I was looking at my power bill to see if I could really "see" the changes since I started putting the new house over to solar. Can you tell a difference ? :)

The only thing that would make what this guy is doing a non starter for me is the noise level.

Ordered a pair of the 450watt ones from Sungold last friday to try them out. Probably will be what I switch over to since my 255's are aging poorly. Bad news is they haven't shipped yet. I contacted Sungold and they said they were stuck in customs and they should be mailed out before this...

I wouldn't mind buying the chargeverter but I don't want to do business with signature solar (not going on a rant just seriously don't like what I have seen lately so leave it at that). So do they have exclusive rights to all eg4 stuff? If so is there another product that does the same thing...

Its been awhile since the lightning strike messed up my tp6048's display but I wanted to update things. Its fixed as of today and back working fine. Now that said this was just the display. At no time was the unit offline. It powered my home the entire time but the display just showed an error...

Well I pulled the trigger and bought a battery that shipped today. I'm still not sure exactly when it gets here as its showing "label created" so maybe more info on that tomorrow. Here's what I bought. CHINS Bluetooth LiFePO4 Battery Smart 48V 100AH Lithium Battery Peak Current 500A, Mobile...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/tesla-battery-catches-fire-illinois-shutting-down-highway-hours-report I wonder if they ran over something earlier or not.

The factory battery that came in my Exmark zero turn was pathetically undersized. I don't remember the exact rating but I think it was around 275cca. I have always had problems with it kicking back when trying to start it. The hotter the mower got from use the worse the problem got. To the point...

Watched this just now on foxnews. Not going to help the industries image much.... Thoughts? https://www.foxnews.com/media/solar-companies-accused-targeting-elderly-americans-using-troubling-sales-practices

I found this story just now : https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/more-fires-more-smart-meter-recalls-for-sensus Same meter I have I think. Well same brand and within the year range.

After spending some of the day adding a generator plug to my solar load panel I was resting between parts of the job and decided to look around in a few of the various electrical boxes that make up the outside wiring panels on my home (you wouldn't believe how many there are..). While doing this...

My sungold tp6048 gets here tomorrow and Im planning on mounting to a 1/4" steel sheet I have and then mounting that to the wall with spacers between the steel plate and the wall at each bolt going into the wall. I had a house fire 30 years ago (was wiring fault, not my doing :) ) so Im very...

I have digital locks on the doors to my workshop and house so to get into the workshop where the solar equipment is requires entering a code or using the fingerprint scanner on it. This works fine but if you have gloves on not so good. Never fails I get gloves on when working on oily stuff I...

I'm wanting to buy a 20 amp battery charger that will not drain the batteries when the its unplugged from ac aka the wall. This is proving to be a bit hard to find so far. I want to connect the chargers ac plug to a smart switch and leave the battery charger connected to the battery bank. This...