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I'm leaving the solar off for tonight, with 12.8 on the battery at sundown. The inverter is off. We'll see what happens. I'm just glad as heck the solar control has that jump start feature. But, I have othe newb questions to ask! So on to that.

Arizona and Texas are two places we're planning on avoiding after decades in SoCal. That would be going from the frying pan into the fire. I'm a born Upstate New Yorker, and would prefer to travel the forest, mountain, stream territories. Hubby has a steel plate in his leg, though, so not in snow.

Definitely going for the "moar power!" solution, then. We got out latest fridge at the tail of the last wave of hell here in SoCal. It's got a metal lining and gaskets in the lid and did so much better on the 105° days. I bought a small 1.50$ bag of ice, left it in the reusable grocery bag, and...

Good to know, when we outgrow the Renogy 30, to move to Victron. When we get more panels on the roof, this one will be too weak. We follow TechnoBarbarian on YouTube, and he's put something like 1600 watts on a similar U-Haul conversion roof. My husband thinks we should stop at 400. I may have...

THIS! ??? He could easily recoup that money.

What a sad waste. However it could have been worse, with the fire factor. They rush into things too fast. Good ideas get wrecked.

So it looks like we have to just be patient and wait for the extra batteries and panels to fit into the budget. I'm just so glad the Renogy controller has that built in jump start set up, after reading about all the trouble people have to get drained LifePo4 batteries going again.

Awe, it's nothing. Just get the cows out of the trees and a little sweeping up. (To quote my grandmother.)

I thought I'd pass this along because it seems like a great idea, it's DIY, and saves a bundle. ?.

Now I'm looking at my Renogy Rover w suspicion. However, it's doing fine for our as yet small system. Bluetti on the other hand, I'm so glad I did the research. I was ready for all their nonsense. Photos photos photos. I did not sign up for their warantee 'before they could help me', I...

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Are those flexible! They have to be on that curved area. I've just been put off flexible by the high incidence of broken wire fires.?

This was predictable suck, because joy boy also mandated all new housing in Cali must have solar! And there's a side order to that that new home buyers have to solar up in the offing. Along with the by-the-mile tax for cars because of EVs.

Thank you so much! I'm sure we'll take your offer up as things progress. We're really quite impressed with this cheap set up for now. (The Eco Worthy kit with a Renogy mppt) It's a cloudy rainy day and the system performed just as good if not better than the past three sunny days. I did notice...

We're adding the battery first. Since it comes in kits of 200 to one 50 ah, 400 to 2 x 50 ah should work? Then later, we switch up to more ah, more panels, more controller amp as we go? Thank you for settling that in my mind! ?

So the next question is: Edit: LifePo4 batteries. Does the battery have to be the same 12.8v 50 ah from the same company? They are selling it bundled with an AC plug in charger, which I think is a good emergency tool to have, but there are other less pricy 12.8v 50ahs out there. However some...

I was wondering why they don't plaster cars in them, and thinking of paving our van with them, but the thin breakable wire thing horrified me (I'm a DNA female) and I won't even have propane in the van conversion because of the boom factor. My husband showed me photos from on the job of a...

Is that the name to search for one under? Solar panel gauge? The mechanic used a multi-meter, but I killed ours a year ago. (It was an accident, I swear.)

PWM bleh! Throw it away! MPPT = sanity. More data, more control settings to fine tune to your system, more safeguards, and ours (Renogy Rover) came with a jump start inside for completely drained batteries. ? No scrambling to find a place to put 14v charger on. (Just need to find out Why the...

So, IF I go cheaper, or have a emergency purchase, watch for SOC creep. Got it. We only lost 0.1 volt last night w nothing but the rover to pull power. Thank you!

Have you seen these solar mast things that track the sun? Think old school roof top TV antenna, crossed with a sail boat. You could pop one into your array, and it would hold up to eight panels.

Eco-worthy that came w the kit. Nothing on the DC. Just the inverter. The thing is, the inverter turns off at 11.7. So we switch to a portable power box at night. There was Nothing on the battery but the lights on the controller after it hit 11.7. the DC is turned off, we don't have a fuse box...

We use a 660 watt portable power box at night and for months, it's been fine, usually with 20 to 40% left over in the morning. Some cooler nights we have 60% in the morning. What should I set the battery control for for the day time load until we get sorted? And would it be best to get the...

From the Renogy rover booklet, a most unhelpful instructions booklet. Can someone explain accumulated ah and discharged ah on this booger, because we've got zero for those after three days. Also why does the charging current often say 0.00, when it's in the sun and getting panel voltage? The...

Northern New Mexico is gorgeous. It's on our hit list. ?

Thank you!

Sounds like the same b.s. happening with Bluetti. I learned a lesson there.

We're retired and on a tight budget, so this month and next, we get two more 100 watt panels, or another itty bitty 50 ah battery (as much as I'd like to get a 100 ah, no mix and match). Where we're at, we're getting about 4 amps steadily between 10 am and 2 pm over the day, enough to charge up...

I'll have to go through it again and get back to you later. Thank you!

Not sure about the Ah but thing is 660 watts. That's what I was thinking last night, It was the only thing draining power. Will give it a try, because Tuesday it ran fine, Wednesday night was the sudden OMG drain. Two more weeks and we'll get the extra 12.8v 50ah to make 100 ah, but the 50ah...