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As a recently retired appliance repair man I wouldn't trust any brand.

I can't tell what size wire they are but going a little larger wouldn't hurt anything. As far as how I would repair them. I would remove each damaged wire and connector from the inverter and solder them back together on a bench with some shrink tubing slipped on each wire before soldering...

Hopefully they're the inhumane type.

I believe the market ultimately sets the price. If Sol ark was over priced then they wouldn't sell enough and would have to lower the price. If EG4 can be a real competitor then that may bring down the price. The economy is changing and not for the better so prices might come down across the...

I believe your trolling for a fight......If it's a fight you want, then go shadow box. : )

I could make a great cardboard fort out of those.

I recently have been watching a u tube channel and one of the issues this person has is with the town water system that has many issues. One of them is the town water system often shuts down and the water in his pipes drains back into the municipal water system. It may do that several times a...

Not going to go down the credit road again. I'm debt free and want to stay that way.

Not so long ago food, water and electricity could be counted on. Now not so much.

Tell your wife to stop tap dancing on them. Problem solved.

I went to current connected and here's what they sell that look to be close to what I bought through Michael. The big difference though is these cells would have cost almost exactly $1000 dollars more. CATL 271AH | 3.2v LiFePO4 Cells | Grade A- Cells show slight swelling QR Codes are...

I live in rural South Carolina and don't know anybody who has a solar system and can't even remember seeing any houses with panels around here. I do know where there's a wind generator but it's almost never spinning. Shortly after I put up my panels the mail carrier knocked on my door to ask me...

If I could afford victron I would buy victron. For the last 2 years I made less than $12000 a year, and this year I might make $8000. It's a good thing I'm thrifty. Lets go Brandon!

My house was built with 2 x 200 amp panels and has worked very well for me when I decided to add solar. I shifted everything I needed that my modest solar system could handle to one panel and the other panel remains connected to the grid. The cost of installing enough solar to cover my whole...

When I was in the planning stages for a small back up solar system. I considered many schemes to heat water and all were to complicated & cumbersome. But I was limiting my options because the back up systems I was considering were small. So when I found out about diversion water heating I made...

I can see some balance issues but not sure if that's the whole problem. I also use overkill BMSs and they are terrible at balancing batteries so twice a year I manually re-balance my packs. My packs tend to go out of balance sooner the harder I am on them especially when charging. The higher...

I built a solar water heater for my swimming pool like that with irrigation pipes and it failed the first time water wasn't flowing through it when the sun was on it. The water boiled out and the pipe slightly melted. I didn't watch the video so I'm not sure if he used different pipe. I also...

I would certainly be looking at your connectors and getting the polarity right. The males & females can easily get messed up during assembly. Did your used panels have the mc4 connectors cut off when you got them?

Selling more inverters means more across the board employees, more warehouse space, more capitol to purchase inverters, more insurance and whole lot more. Look at sig solar. They sell cheaper products and have been growing to fast to soon and have a lot of unhappy customers to show for it.

Forget the pallet. I always have more fun with just the cardboard box.

You should be getting voltage at the PV input terminal screws on the inverter. If not then there's a problem somewhere between the panels and the inverter.

There is one other option that I don't believe that has been mentioned. If you buy lifepo4 batteries you could keep them in the heated space with you. Just find a suitable place like under a dinette bench or something like that and as long as you are at a comfortable temperature they will be...

Yea no your pipes would never fill up, BUT your neighbors at the bottom of the mountain will have their houses filled up with excrement from everybody living above them. That shit rolling down hill will find the path of least resistance and that will usually be someone else's toilets and drains.

All students should be required to take the class called Will Power!

I don't get out much so I kinda look forward to buying groceries.

That means as long as you correctly identify your + and - cables coming from the panels you should be able to keep the correct polarity as long as you pay careful attention how the mc4 connectors are on the panels and then keeping the male and female mc4 connections correct after that. It...

I will admit I haven't searched for any complaints about watts247, but I also haven't searched for any complaints about sigsolar but whenever I visit this site I always look at the the new post and it's extremely hard to miss all the post about sigsolar. I also believe it is fair to compare...

Another method would be adding another water heater and putting up more panels and feeding the water heater directly from the panels. You would need to come up with a way to disconnect the solar when the water is hot enough as the a/c thermostat will eventually fail when fed dc current and would...

Moved to San Diego in 84 and met my wife there and stayed married for 28 years until she didn't think I was good enough for her anymore and divorced me in 2013. Left her messed up attitude and the retarded state of California in 2015 and haven't looked back since. Where I live now I can prepare...

That's the plan.