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4 x 12 x 1 is 48w x 24hr is 1152wh 1 x 12 x 2 is 24w x 24hr is 576wh So 1728wh needed a day 6hr x 200w is 1200wh if you are lucky in generation. So no the kit is not adequate. Maybe twice the amount of solar panels and 3 days of battery power. Just plug them straight onto the battery. Edited...

Just wanted to give a shout out and thanks to @EG4_Jared, @Markus_EG4 and @SignatureSolarJess for helping out over the last few days. Much appreciated. All too often we, yes me included, complain when things go awry, but we should also give shout outs for great support. So thank you.

Then take the biggest open space you have and place it towards the center east/west side and more to the north side of said space with panels facing southward. Assuming you are in the northern hemisphere….

I hit 15-16k range regularly and then start clipping depending really on the amount of wattage I can send to the battery at that time. That’s from 16.8k panels but they are however bifacial. Sure I could pull more if I had more batteries that needing charging so I wouldn’t clip.

I start clipping at around 11am on a sunny day, so charge last catches that excess power and sends it to charge the battery before pv priority kicks in. If it’s not a sunny day, the pv priority ensures that during the “peak” sunlight hours the battery gets charged, irrespective of the charge...

And yes I use both charge last and pv priority. And my reasons are as follows - I want to have my battery fully charge by nightfall so it can discharge and power the house overnight and I want to use as much pv as possible during the day. These are my settings as they work for me to make my...

I don’t use the app but go via the web interface. I personally don’t use ac charge at all as even on very cloudy days I generate enough pv to fully charge my battery everyday.

Just be cognizant of with only using charge last enabled, it will only charge the battery last after loads and export so would only kick in after 12kw of ac generated. That is on a big sunny day. On a cloudy day it might never charge the batteries. Which is why I also have pv charge priority set...

You can do 12kw ac. So that’s both load to house and selling back to the grid. The rest can be used to charge the battery which is dc. So I have mine setup to charge the battery from 11:30am which is about when I hit the 12kw limit on the pv side so it then uses that excess power to charge the...

Batteries, just batteries and then some more batteries.

I want to say it’s the “power backup” that is enabled on the web interface. If I recall correctly when it was enabled on my system I have had a constant draw on my battery of 0.7 to 0.8 amps since then. I haven’t bothered to test if I disable that setting, but I need to have it enabled to...

It’s like that here in rural TX as well where I am at. Only real outage was the storm of ‘21 and then had no power for 11 days.

Murphy’s law

I just also went back and checked when I had only 1 array with 12 panels up and peaked at just over 5300w pv generated and that was in January. Feb had 2 arrays up and peaked at close to 11kw. So I should be able to get 16kw with 3 arrays, I just clip way before then. Also they are angled for...

I have 42 of these panels. 3 arrays ground mounted. I am happy with them thus far. Cannot tell you exactly if they are performing to spec as I have no way to test them definitively. I am over-paneled so I cannot get to maximum panel pv generation as I cannot use all the pv generated by the...