Recent content by hankinohio

Could you briefly explain 3 and 4?

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...

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...

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...

Ive been looking at those canadian solar panels as well

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...

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

You still workin on it?

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

waaa haaapened?

here here !!!!(y)?

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...

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...

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?

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...