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I havent seen a single manufacturer recomend screws through the ribs like on your roof. Either way the S5 brackets that dont go through the ribs is what I'm going to be useing. There cheap and I can connect unistrut to them easily.

How deep is the pump set to? A 2hp pump is freaking huge.

Never saw a CC that regulates the input. If they did there wouldnt be a spec for voltage input. They regulate output only.

I owned a GE hpwh for 10yrs until the tank got a leak, my and my water fault. The tank got a leak. Then I got a rheem about 2yrs ago. This new one has all the wifi stuff and can track useage. We have 3 people in the house and it set to only heat pump (just like the last one) and dont go...

What ever diesel you get make sure it's a 1800rpm unit. Theyblast longer and are more quiet. $4k should get you a decent non chinese brand diesel generator. If you dont need it as portable you can trailer mount a Mep802a. Liquid cooled, 1800rpm military diesel that's designed to run on red...

Strand of wire makes nearly no difference in a DC circuit. Amazon does have good US made wire. Look up national wire. They sell PV wire made in NY and a very good price even when you compare it to chinese stuff. Also its solid copper not CCA.

National wire on Amazon sells PV wire made in NYS for just about as cheap as the chinese junk. https://www.national-wire.com/product-page/awg10-250-ft-pv-wire-solar-professional

I have family that has a prety expensive and new RV and we also found that the gas/ac fridge draws more power than my normal sized double door fridge with ice maker. I run a standard 4.3cuft fridge with separate top freezer on my solar. The most it draws is 120w or so. It's also a cheap $200...

Yes a #1 is what I'm going to use and the smallest they sell.

I'm in the process of wireing a cabin in 12v and 120v. I was originally going to run 12v lighting until I did a test install of them and found there not very bright and not very reliable. I was useing 4in recessed lights. Trying to use 12v lighting wasted quite a bit of time, money and...

Trying to figure out the odds and ends needed for my offgrid cabin. Looking around I havent really seen a good roof penetration method for exposed fastener metal roofs. Seams like the best method is a roof boot and 180* bend of conduit? This is going to look kind of ugly and not very low...

I believe they make filter socks made to be in the top of a IBC tote. Would that work? Something more basic could be a simple 5gal bucket full of different sized gravel with a hole in the bottom sitting over your tank. I use this for my only filtering of my garden water tank.

I would try a factory reset to default settings along with unplugging the Mt50 and checking the actual outputs before condemning the unit. I have the same BN series controller and it's been running nonstop for 2.5yrs. Granted it's only got 700w of shaded pannels on it. but if I was to buy...

Buy a premade setup. The cheapest other option would be to buy a $80 marine battery and charge it off your vehicle. I have a friend who durring a storm ran his oil fired boiler off a inverter hooked to his toyota Corolla battery. He just let it idle all night. Used next to no gas he said.

I would just direct burry wire and avoid conduit if you can. With no junctions underground and short of the wire not going under a driveway you shouldnt have a problem. If you do have a problem then the conduit could also be compromised rendering your "future proofing" useless. I have MHF...

I have cheap ass Sam's club GC2 batteries going on 3yrs in a weekend cabin. They see temps 0*f many times each winter. They still work great. I have 2S3P for a total of 6 batteries, they generaly take about 1gal of water a year total. I have never ran a desulphate charge on them. they are...

I dont really want to do that due to my pannels being almost directly over my utility room in the middle of the house. It would add alot of conduit, wire and wouldnt look as nice. I did think of a LB but not a LB with roof p Boot. Thanks.

I had something similar to the OP happen on a 150a cheap O breaker but it would trip at almost half capacity. I put a $33 bussman breaker in and its been fine for months.

I have 2 QO main and sub pannels in my house and there 14yrs old. I dont recall them being a copper buss bar. Recently I got a homeline from HD for a cabin. I dont see it as inferior of a product. At my local HD they have HL and QO pannels and breakers of all sizes. The cost for A QO setup...

A gfci shouldnt pop due to pure sinewave vs mod sine wave. The pop due to differential in the 120v leg vs the neutral or ground.

Its ran nearly flawlessly in it's current setup for 2yrs. It's in a cabinet about 100ft away. The fans do run when I reset the unit.

I have had a xantrax x1200 (1200w) running a appartment sized fridge for a few years. It also runs lights, small power tools and charges milwaukee M18 batteries just fine. I even run a 700w microwave on it and dont even think about what the fridge is doing at the time.

I also dont believe theres a metal roof manufacturer of these pannels that list screws in the ribs is a way to attach the panel. I put 32' of metal roof on last summer and you can really distort these pannels bad by even just sliding your foot over against one rib. I would follow what the...

You could say that but I have seen conduit fail making the "future proofing" a total failure.

The GPM you see listed with most of these pumps is the 0' rise/head pressure. That means it will pump XX gpm with no rise. A typical shower head is about 2gpm and 6-7' high. I have a 3.5gpm 12v pump and find that it's hardly adequate for a shower. Il be looking for a 5.5-7gpm 120v pump...

Has anyone just ran a gas dryer? We plan on getting a over/under washer/dryer for our cabin. We dont live there but would be nice not to have to pack bedding back and forth. And honestly the all in one units your guys are talking about cost way more than I would even spend on a laundry for my...

I plan on useing the S5 brackets to attach unistrut to then the pannels to the strut is prety easy with amazon brackets. Your rails would then cost about $300. I plan on setting my s5 brackets in a pattern that each is as close to the edge of a pannel as possible. Solar pannels dont transfer...

Why are they failing? I'm looking at this one to pump water from a spring box to a underground cistern for a cabin with 40' of head pressure. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09SHKWDDD/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=A2XHM4QW1KJCY0&psc=1 Currently I'm useing a 1/2hp 120v jet pump. I can pump...

You should be useing the breaker pannel bonding screw because your useing it on the main pannel. On a sub pannel the ground would be carried back in the ground wire to the main pannel. The ground on the inverter outlet should be grounded all the way to the ground rod..which is what I...

Pictures of what you currently have now may help. Is it one of those cheap pressure switches with the screw on the pump? Yes those suck even new. I'm sure someone sells a DC pressure switch. If not an AC normal house one is prety cheap and prob built for way higher amps than a DC pump if...