Recent content by ebertoli

Thanks for your reply. Good to know about the wire gauge. And yes, that's the unit.

I included stats for the solar panels and power station below. I also put the label of the solar panels in case I supplied the wrong info. I took a risk on this questionable power station because it's a big battery for a low price. I already have these solar panels on hand that I'd like to use...

jehugarcia on youtube. He does a lot of battery stuff and EV type things.

Ours was about $39000 in Oct of 19 before federal tax credit, local city rebate of about $3500 and a cash rebate thing from the company of about $1200. This says, for about the same size, $36000. I'd say it's a pretty accurate estimate. For last year, we generated more than 16.28 MWh based on...

Jehu looked at it a day or two ago.

Based on some of what I've read there are some panels out there that have poorly performing backsheets on them because the manufacturers were trying to save pennies on the dollar and used some less than optimal material for the backsheets. These were probably some situation like this. I've also...

Go check out the listing - there are images. Not all of them have the whole backsheet removed. Some have only cracking/localized peeling. The one I've looked at out of the 20 I have seems to have the entire backsheet removed. I haven't examined them well yet. I think they were poor backsheets...

I wouldn't paint them with just anything. I've seen different suggestions on this forum and others out there. They're usually talking about some kind of silicon that doesn't have chemicals in it that would harm the ability of the panels to function. ghostwriter66 - the panels have the...

ghostwriter66 - the panels have the manufacturer's label removed.

I ordered some of these. Santan solar has a good reputation and they said on the listing that the power output of them is good that the EVA moisture barrier is still intact. I also ordered a Boviet 370W for $145 because I want to try strapping that to the roof of my Honda Element for camping...

Will recently reviewed it and seemed to think it's good. He plans on doing some long term testing on it.

Eek! Looks like they've messed the bed with a demand for extra payment within 2 days for shipping/VAT to some backers for specific countries when they originally indicated they would NOT charge extra during the campaign.

No tax through 10/31 and free shipping, so $1099 to your door. I know nothing about this company - just came up in a search. https://shopsolarkits.com/products/poweroak-bluetti-1500wh-portable-power-station-free-shipping

I think Will stated a concern regarding that issue too in another thread about this item. I don't think anyone out there who has tested it so far has addressed it and Will didn't get a unit to test though he is getting one... too late for all of us who bought them though - also maybe not enough...

I'm planning on trying to do that, but I need to learn a lot even to get to that point.