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Best part is... We're building the house cash money... It's a slow process... And right now I'm doing a lot of the work so my wife's business is taking the brunt of the work while my business is kind of on the side When we are done we won't owe anybody a dime... And that's pretty exciting

I'm building a house... It is 24x 36 with a 2/3 second story... My wife and I designed it and we did everything with help from friends and family... The last couple weeks I've been changing out the size of windows as I got a really good deal on the windows for the top story... Enough for it was...

Architect? What the hell is an architect? We just did a quick sketch on a sheet of paper and then on some graph paper explained where the house would sit on our property When it asked about power we said solar When it asked about construction we wrote stick When it asked about foundation we...

Ultimately what your question is is can you have two packs that are different capacities in parallel I think right? If I'm understanding the question correctly then yes you absolutely can I have one pack that is 1,300 amp hours and another that is 460 amp hours... They're in parallel and they...

Got a heck of a deal on four MPP solar LV 6548s They were pulled from the guy's system to upgrade to an 18,000 W EG4 I got them for a pretty good price... Came with all the parallel cables and such I didn't actually get around to hooking them up... Though he was willing to hook them up for...

Looks like you're right... It's the 18KPV which is 12,000 W on the inverter and 18,000 Watts input on the PV Kind of a weird name for the inverter really

Oh that was determined a long time ago no permits are required for this The house is permitted... And the city is aware that I'm building a completely off-grid house in fact they approved it But my friend the mayor said nobody would be able to inspect it because they don't know anything about...

I'm not sure what I was intending to type there... I literally rolled out of bed and answered this question But the rest of it... That makes sense

Oh heat... I meant to put heat

That's so romantic

And sometimes fires

Well we made some progress... We're doing our capacity test as we speak After reassembling the battery in a 4p4s configuration and attaching a 200 amp BMS, I proceeded to attach a fuse, a 3000 watt inverter, and a 1500 w heat gun... That works out to almost 1600 50 Watts on the battery or...

Sometimes I do.. But then I don't get an electric bill... And then people in my little late community post things on Facebook about how their power is out... And I just laugh and say something about how mine is working just fine

So I've been living on a 12 volt system in an RV for the last 2 years Knowing what I know now, struggling to and succeeding at keeping things running and making it all work together, you could not pay me to do a 12 volt system again... I do have a mini split air conditioner and a 5,000 BTU...

Where I live... Not being connected to the grade is actually surprisingly common... It's an old lake community that started in the '80s in Kansas Of course maybe 15 years ago they incorporated as a city There's maybe four or 500 residents year-round and it balloons to 1200 in the summer I'm...

No electric bill... No electric pole... No electric...

I run a 12,000 BTU mini split in my 34 ft RV... Tell you what I thought was enough almost does the trick but it's not enough

Yeah I'm only going to buy two of them if I do... 6K would have almost ran the house... 12k would run the house just fine Lights, refrigerator (inverter based) television and a 45 watt per channel stereo, microwave... The motor in the washing machine... A few mini splits... Probably four or...

Actually most of the product stock photos do not show them with connections already made... This causes me to think that they are smaller... Your picture on the other hand really helps me to better understand the physical size of the busbar and the hole spacing Based on your pictures I think...

I have a lot of people that think I can do it for them for next to nothing... I had one local that lives in an RV... A 50 amp RV with two rooftop air conditioners ask if I could get him up and running... I ran some numbers for him and he was surprised He figured that I could set him up for less...

Honestly... Because the more parts that there are, the more I am going to have to provide support to him... Lol 🤣

QZRELB. I keep one of their 3000 watt inverters around... They're dirt cheap and they work really well... It's actually pretty impressive how low the idle consumption was I can't remember exactly what it was but it was just over 10 watts if I remember correctly?

See that seems realistic... Like that actually makes sense. In fact I would argue that with that much 4/0 wire That system is better wired than most people's off-grid solar setups

Lifepo4 has been a game changer for me But, lead acid does tolerate cold temperatures much better than lifepo4 Edit... You can heat your battery and none of this matters ...edit Lifepo4 take up less space and weighs less Lead acid really needs to be fully charged a d charge hard... Lifepo4...

I recently installed solar panels on my shed the shed is really small about 5 ftw by 7 ft I also built action effectively double d available space for solar panels The plan is to have, 3 rows of 3, for a total of 2250 watts

Any idea how they confirm when the system is in service? I mean I imagine they would send somebody to your house... But then again it is the federal government

So on a group I'm in somebody posted what they claimed was an 80000 watt car subwoofer system... Naturally I pointed out the absurdity of this First I started by taking 80,000 watts and dividing that by 13.8 volts which works out to nearly 5,800 amps Then I explained that a single 4/0 gauge...

No I'm not planning to do anything I'm not supposed to... What I am trying to do is Make sure that if I am ever audited I have my butt covered

Well the test finally finished ... And it looks like I ended up at 1,332 amp hours? time for bed