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I have installed transfer switches which allow for a circuit by circuit disconnection from street power over to generator power. Instead of having a generator as the input to your transfer switch, you can feed it with your 110 VAC or 220 VAC solar inverter, thusly, impressing the wife even more!

Yeaily, but wouldn't it have been easier just to screw the shed light bulb back into the socket? ?

It's both snowing and raining at the moment so at least some progress is being made towards that glorious week of summer. The solar panels are registering a lazy 14.3 volts at the input to the SCC which made me wonder: *ACCORDING to my Epever manual, when the green charge light is steady, that...

Anyways, back to the original MT-50 thread before we get scolded for veering off course into the land of speak easy, we are awaiting our coforum member's troubleshooting results, as you were! ...

Last summer I purchased a hybrid, MPPT, solar wind controller.

I produce nearly all of the power that I use via solar. I do use my gasoline/propane powered generator to operate my 220vac deep well water pump, power tools and shore power charger fill in during low solar gain periods. As time goes by I will continue to grow my solar power system and rely less...

Hello BThames, as a fellow postee, I do not mind your contributions one bit, in fact I find the contributions of others invaluable in developing my own understanding of the concepts discussed in this forum. I'm having a hard time using the DC model in understanding phase relationship, as DC does...

I wish full up lifepo's was a problem for my SCC to contend with!

Egads ... Gasping ... Clutching Chest ... As an electrician type I'm losing it here. Please do something like this instead and seek professional help when doing so. Stay safe and live long and prosper...

Hmmm, I've never really looked into headsets, (or electric blankets and heating pads for that matter), going line voltage hot, egads that is not a pleasant thought! And seven hundred and sixty five thousand volt transmission lines, the thought of even getting within 100 meters of that on a dry...

Wow, on the original inks, that's a dream? My Epson is such an inkaholic that it turns itself on and begs for a fix every time I walk by, even when it's unplugged.

I have resistance and continuity tested the "Y" cables that connect three, new, Rich Solar, 160 watt panels in parallel and they are fine. YET, when the three panels are each producing 110 watts, the aggregate wattage is a measly 185 watts instead of 330 watts? Why oh why Will, (dropping to...

LMAO, I said loosely quoted gimme a break. And speaking of loosely, don't forget, let us not make another person pay the price with their physical self because we were too stubborn to properly secure accessories to moving vehicles. Amen

I DO NOT BEGRUDGE those who are bright, gifted and talented who as a result of their remarkable abilities can afford things like zillion dollar PV systems, Tesla's and state of the art solar sheds, in fact I respect, admire and even love such individuals. With the aforementioned in mind, the...

Now see had you joined the Air Force, after every 4 hour shift you would have chosen from a wide selection of imported and domestic ice cold beerZ that were on tap, served to you in a heavy, frosted glass mug while relaxing in the barracks lounge and munching on complimentary peanuts, pretzels...

I was just sitting there in an eerily abandoned city, (see body snatchers 1978), having lunch and enjoying the lack of exhaust fumes whilst thinking about asking people in the solar forum their thoughts on my purchasing of a couple of 50 amp, 12 volt, series capable batteries with built in...

I drew too much current from my lifepo's and the BMS shut them down. It was night so I had nothing coming from the SCC, so I applied the 12vdc output of a portable battery bank to the battery terminals and reset the BMS.

So far so good my lifepo's have survived below freezing temps, (not only Fahrenheit but Celsius as well), in a TOTALLY UNHEATED space and with no electric or any other type of heating assist. The batteries are in a styrofoam insulated box a couple of feet off the ground in a five to six foot...

Where do squirrels go in a hurricane? All over the place!

Great question, the same one I have grappled with for my entire life. A search on the Internet brings up endless charts, graphs, theory, fact and discussion, agreement and disagreement on the subject! A couple rules of thumb hold true, the higher the voltage the smaller the wire is required to...

~ A 100 watt solar panel is going to generate about six amps of charging current in full sun, minus the minor losses in the short cables running from your solar panel and MPPT controller, then minus whatever losses are associated delivering the current to your mystery battery, I would count on...

My gender in inconsequential, wot matters is that the former consistently recieves a most rousing response from the collective major, (it's a birds and bees sorta thing).

Orangeeeeee your cables can be the diameter of a coffee can, as soon as you apply an external charging current, you will read what the charger is putting out for voltage, not just the battery voltage alone.

Yep, a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupt senses an imbalance between the current entering on the feed, (supply), terminal and the current leaving on the return, (neutral), terminal. If a 4 or 5 miliamp imbalance is sensed then bata bing, the circuit interrupts. I think this happens in about 1/30th...

oops, I cut off part of the link addy, sorry! https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/why-no-standard-voltage/

I went out on a mid winters day and faced and angled mine for the noontime sun and that's where I leave them year round. ?

Two 110 vac waveform's have to be precisely 90 degrees out of phase with each other in order to produce a full 220 VAC. Unless your two invertors are capable of communicating with one another to generate the correct AC phase relationship, you won't be making 220.