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I am looking to build a 48 volt solar and battery system to power our refrigerators and freezers with grid backup. I would be putting the circuits for these in a sub panel for the solar only, I need 12 KWH a day for this panel. I figure I need; Approximately 15 - 20 kwh of batteries 3 kW...

Maybe ask @Zapper77. I think hes been experimenting with one

LOL thanks eggo. I guess I didn't realize EG4 was not tier 1. Guess they're out I will dive deeper into Victron and some of the others you all have suggested. Would it be best to stick with all the same brand of components or is it easy enough to mix and match?

Thanks for the vendor prospects I will check them out. DougfromdaUP has got the idea, panels and batteries as much as possible I don't need inspected but I need to know what it needs to be done right I would rather not involve the power company yet, at this point I would rather draw some power...

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I felt the powerpro would be the best choice, feelin good about that. The panels....I have no idea. Why do some that seem so much better, cost so much less than others? Either the adage " you get what you pay for" does not apply to solar panels or I'm missing something. The thing is I don't know...

No offense, but to be totally honest, I would be scared to death to purchase from Sig Solar at this point in time. These systems are expensive and pretty complicated on the inside. If everything worked as should I dont think I would have any problems with assembly/installation, but if something...

Building a system based on a EG46000xp. Which would you choose? Any others you would recommend? Have 4 battery choices... 1- EG4 powerpro 14.3 kwh $3799 ==$266/kwh 2-EG4 lifepower4 10.2 kwh $2518==$246/kwh 2-EG4 LL-S 10.2 kwh $2990==$293/kwh 1-Mammoth 9.6 kwh...

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Could you explain what you mean here, I'm just not seeing what your saying. Guess it's pretty obvious that the powerpro is the way to go for battery. When I got estimates from companys to install solar on our roof, they seemed to all spec sil fab panels. Ive decided to go DIY with a ground mount...

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This is what I intend, the solar system ONLY powers the freezers which includes charging the batteries which only power the freezers. I would need the grid to make up for any shortfalls, but anything generated more than needed for that would just be wasted....nothing going to grid. This will be...

Ok I see what you mean now. Pretty simple when you put it that way. At .17 / kwh those panels have to give me 590 kwh to make them pay for themselves...I think. That being said, I have not put alot of emphasis on the pay back. Our electric goes out so often, I would need to figure the cost of...

I'm beginning to see a whole new set of terminology I'm gonna have to get comfortable with, but then I didnt hardly know any of these solar specific terms 2 years ago when we started looking into this. We started out looking for ...I guess a "conventional" system with roof panels that gives you...

Can you power loads AND charge batteries at the same time from the grid with the 6000xp?

Could you briefly explain 3 and 4?

You still workin on it?

Right heres my biggest problem, I just learned what a shunt is a few months ago along with SCC which I still sometimes forget stands for solar charge controller. DC couple and datacom are new ones to lookup. Guessing I'll have trouble with datacom it sounds like some kind of computer hard or...

Ive been looking at those canadian solar panels as well