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I always liked Kansas. You have to boot out that guy from Weswhatever (Jeff Martin, VP of blood sucking) because I couldn't move there knowing they were taxing solar people. Did that only apply to grid tie? In an article I read, he seemed to attack off-grid as not being off grid just because...

I've made some progress in collecting info on mounting and have been collecting it here: https://sites.google.com/view/power-diy/solar/mounting Basically, I've found some useful videos, and hunted down and linked to Home Depot parts. I'll continue to add more to this page as I go. There...

That's exactly my goal with PV automation. Those of us with grid are balancing two competing goals. Maximizing PV utilization and having UPS for when grid is down. When grid is down, we than want to go into critical load conservation. And that may be in multiple stages. For instance, since...

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True... however, many people will die with a whole lot of false assumptions. A fool is the one who quits asking questions.

Clearly, the purple wire just isn't very color coordinated, clashing with the other colors. And the white wire should be melted to match the fuse it is connected to.

DO NOT POST PICTS OR DISCUSS p0rn IN THIS THREAD... DO... come here when Away From Keyboard (AFK) so people can see your productivity:

I implemented this and am very happy with it. This is a starter. I can scale. But, no matter what, I start with 10 circuits to choose from at any given time for "critical load". If power goes out, whatever is on critical load will keep running. Note that I ran this for awhile without PV...

Obvious and Presumptuous walked into a thread. Obvious said, "you are Presumptuous." Presumptuous replied, "it's that obvious?"

I'm putting little solar panels on the back of my cat since he already tracks the sun and can charge my phone.

The important thing is Will's shed can put an end to global cooling and, if we're lucky, end this historically long season of solar minimum.

@JeepHammer @MisterSandals This helped tremendously. Thank you very much. Very good ideas and helped me have a lot of clarity. I measured pitch when I built my patio with stakes and string and string levelers on ground that had more pitch than I wanted the patio to be. It came out perfect...

@Dieselstein according to your photo, your inverter input is 24V:

Sounds like we need a wiki to complement the forum. We can have more contributors to a wiki than FAQ/sticky, which is limited to admins. It would be a nice destination of clearly organized information while still being dynamic and evolving. And, we can cross-link between the forum and the wiki.

I'd say that is the only good explanation on why they are the only eCommerce site I know of that requires you to give them a credit card before they will estimate shipping. I just tried to retest this to verify it hasn't changed in an incognito window (so I was "anonymous"). It would not even...

If you look carefully at the background in Will's photo you'll see it's a dual purpose tool used to also create artistic charring in wood. You just need the right kind of gloves.

Fortunately, our anti-trust laws are not based on that definition. It is based on them being able to do things others can't do because of their pricing power -- such as making it very painful and privacy invading to compare the true cost with shipping on thousands of products. You can trigger...

and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that ...

Will, in this video, can you provide a link to the meter you are using? Jehu seems to use same one, but he said he is using the shunt, and all I could find on Drok was the kind with the hall sensor. I wish they had a faceted search on their site. Do you prefer hall or shunt, and why? 300A...

He can't receive your transmission inside his Faraday cage.

You haven't lived until you tried driving with the windshield visor in place: FUN FACT: We had a heat wave in Phoenix (125F daily), and on the news was a guy cooking eggs by just putting a cast iron under the back window.

I'm a full-time trader in US equities markets. There is no popular financial source I know of that is more biased than Bloomberg. However, they are really insanely biased on certain select topics. Michael Bloomberg owns over 80%, and he loathes Trump. Just for kicks and jiggles, I like to...

Yeah, thanks again @Bob142 ! I grabbed 4 and would never of known if not for your post.

@upnorthandpersonal You'll need to address SSL for MediaWiki. Fortunately, that's free today. I wish MediaWiki used Markdown. That has become a very re-usable skill transcending many sites. Of course, WYSIWYG is even better, if available.

Dunno your age, but that was really mocking the era I grew up in. "Revenge of the Nerds" was the beginning of their ascent in society from social rejects to totalitarian dictators. I was a "chameleon" -- the word one person used to describe me in my high school year book. I fit in all the...

Just ask Google... I need an onion charge controller. Looking into it further... https://www.fastcompany.com/1311755/how-make-electricity-waste-onion-juice

Are these all 12V DC or do you need an inverter to run any of them? The core question is what voltage range can they handle and how do you stay in that range. Also, regarding these cells vs LFPs, you really need a balancer for protection for non LFP. I mean, you want it for all chemistries...

Thank you, @Will Prowse , for the valence teardown. I acquired a red light one in a collection I grabbed on craigslist. More than got my $40 worth w/o the Valence, but I was considering tearing it apart. You made my day today doing it! I cannot wait to see the videos of you re-using the...

@JeepHammer Would love to see picts of your panel mounts. Pictures from anyone would be very much appreciated. I collected some from here. Just not enough, yet. You can't post too many, so go nuts! Short-term solutions are valued as much as long-term because I plan to do short-term ground...

We have a lot of rules like that in trading. One rule I learned from a teacher was never begin a sentence with "I think"... the context is predicting. The problem with that is you form a bias about the future making it harder to keep your options open. Obviously, if you don't have money on...