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Test bench ready to go for when my box of air or bricks get here. From - Sync Time: 2022-06-10 21:51:21 (GMT-05:00) 2022-06-10 10:43 The local customs office allowed him to leave 2022-06-07 12:37 The package arrived at the customs of the destination country 2022-06-04 08:49 The package has...

I have two PV setups. A 6.2 kWp grid-tied and a 3.4 kWp off-grid. I have a Chevy Bolt EV. 1000.0 just clicked over on the trip odometer. 100% off-grid PV-Solar provided

Step one, be a good neighbor, contact the seller. Step two, try step one 3 more times. Step three, chargeback through your payment. What was sold was not what was delivered. This protection right here is already in place and by far the easiest least headache way to go. Step four, small claims...

I know college is something a few of us here attended and it appears chemistry is one of the subjects even fewer had. It's basic chemistry, as the temperature falls. Electrons move slower. The basic premise of challenging a CEO of a company that literally spent his entire life on the subject...

He has the LV6048, not the LVX6048. Very different machines.

DC We all know the cat deserves it every time it walked on the keyboard.

I have 58 full days of use, 47 on a balancing BMS. I have been using these batteries and cycling them every day twice a day. Charge and discharge - 5 days a week. I bought a bunch of "4.0 - 4.5 kWh batteries", yes eight of them. I would have never known I had less than what I was sold, had...

The setting is 10A - per inverter, so it's actually 20A total going to the batteries for the lowest settings. I have the dedicated circuit also, I use it as both supply and to receive energy. I back feed the circuit to supply my house. 1st I turn the main to the house off, then flip the circuit...

I'm putting a net meter on my on/off-grid setup. The players: This looks pretty straight forward. :) Some 6/3 service line (lowes or home depot) A service meter thing. (Missouri Wind and Solar) A real live net meter. (Ebay) Connects.

Next time you need a copper bus bar, go to Lowes/Home Depot/Menards and get 5 FEET for about $7. Type L is thicker than N or M. Cut+Smush+Drill = Bussbar. Add some heatshrink in the middle to get fancy, or use a garden hose to hide the copper. No, it's not tinned, but it's still copper! Don't...

Yesterday I found my Round2It, and rewired my PV strings. Now I have them in 6S and going to input 1 on each inverter. At 1:30 on a 576 w/m² day, each input is showing ~222V ~5 amps which is 1050 watts Earlier this morning the string had 258.4V VOC. The panels are 5° incline (essentially...

It's funny how the Chinese New Year completely disrupts the entire supply chain. :) I have my harnesses all made, my BMS's ready to go, and 8 cent connectors somewhere in the universe are holding me up connecting the two BMS'es. I am using AnyDesk to remote into the tablets. The tablets are...

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320 miles of driving on solar PV energy. I passed the zero on the net meter and now know for sure. I fully charge the batteries only from the sun. I turn off the grid about noon M-F. Spring and long sunny days are awesome. I have already had two or three days where the car was full, the house...

For now, just forget about Micro Inverters for off-grid use. They are not yet available for the public. They will be, and unfortunately are kind of a rip-off. Enphase IQ8 EQ8 is the only micro inverters there are that can do an AC directly from the panel, but not released to the world for some...

Arrived.

Look inside your LV2424 at the battery connection. See the buss bar, now trace it to where the inverter side wires are, look at the size of the wire, probably in the 4 AWG or 6 AWG size. The bigger the wire you use outside the inverter only helps to keep the resistance low. The higher the...

It's a lot of hoops, but what if... Windmill --(dirty AC)--> Rectified to DC --(dirty DC) --> DC/DC regulator --(clean steady DC) --> Charge controller. From what I understand about Morningstar, that is exactly what Morningstar does. Take dirty AC and outputs steady DC to charge a battery...

Take look at this: (Go down about half the page to "Charging an LFP Battery" https://www.solacity.com/how-to-keep-lifepo4-lithium-ion-batteries-happy/

Yesterday I had a day where I fully charged the battery and saw the LV6548s "turn off" the panels. It happened again today. This time at 1:15 in the afternoon. Now I know the feeling of wasted energy. I could have had my car plugged in at that time, but it was charged enough also! I would...

I just got the email from Peggy Hung from mppsolar.com, deliveries "will be ready in 10 working days". I don't know if the actually means they will start delivering them on November 27th, or it takes them 10 days from when you order them. (I think it means the new inverter will start shipping on...

That is a significant weight compared to the LV6548. My guess is that the LVX has a real transformer.

I am charging with grid-tied solar, so basically grid power. I have off-grid about ready to get installed in the next few weeks. I plan to set up the MPP Solar LV5048 to charge only from solar. I expect it is more than enough to charge the batteries, my end game is to go entirely off-grid with...

Inspired by Danny, I am going to copy this: I already have the ladder and even a 12v winch.

A no cut, no splice, plug-n-play. It has a screen, Bluetooth, and more settings in the app than we know what to do with. Will already reviewed this BMS. The Inside wires: The Outside Wires: Conclusion: Molex Micro-Fit 3.0 430251000 10POS 3mm Molex Micro-Fit 3.0 or 1729521001...

All tables are for reference. The forest we are in is battery charging. The tree we are looking at is a used Lifepo4 tree. In the forest of battery charging all batteries charge to match the voltage they are presented with, at the amperage they can absorb. The voltage potential (difference...