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I have a pair of 100W renogy that I slap together with some clamps, and do the dance to stay in the sun. 120' trees.

It depends on where you usually camp. The site I go to every July, roof mounts are worthless. The RV is parked firmly in the shade of the trees. I have loose panels that I can get about 6 hours of good sun on if I move them frequently.

how do you make the neutral connection in the trough? It's making sense now, but I won't backfeed a breaker in the main panel. I'll make sure I get what I want in the critical loads subpanel and be happy with that. Power is quite stable where I am building, better than what I have now. I have...

^the above discussion is exactly what I want to avoid with an L&I inspector. ^

@mciholas thank you. That is how I pictured what you described. I'll take a sharper pencil at my critical loads, @BentleyJ , thank you. That will determine the hardware requirements.

Thanks Tim. These are the things I want to avoid. It seems like a seperate unit like the Schnieder has merit in that situation.

Thanks that is a fairly elegant solution. Yes I know the critical loads gets a breaker out, and in your example the inverter into the main panel gets a separate breaker going in. In the pass through scenario the same breaker in the main panel serves both purposes. That was the configuration I...

Fortunately this is new construction, so It will be wired from the start for that subpanel. One thing about the All In Ones that bothered me was taking that critical loads grid power through the AIO in the EG4. I have read some about using a relay so if the AIO needs service, it is not sitting...

Thanks. I do think the loads can go down on the critical loads panel. I need to get the minimal hydronic pumps sized and go forward from there.

I have been reading other threads with a 'critical loads" search. My initial deployment is 5~8Kw of roof mounted panels, depending on the roof real estate I have. My goals are to have a minimal critical loads subpanel that can be backed up with an inverter and batteries. I can keep that load...

LOL that's nothing. My neighbor went out, he saw something but I said hey my phone made some great pictures. After we look at them a while he reveals he's really colorblind. It was all one tone to him, like wildfire smoke :ROFLMAO:

Hey don't short sell Reba!!

I agree in the sense that the system gets more robust rather than less. I disagree when I consider how dependent people seem to be on every last little bit of tech, and you practically have to beg somebody to put the !#%^^% smart phone down and have a nice social family dinner. It just fries my...

@AlaskanNoob The sun has been doing this since forever. We figured out how to detect and measure it when Carrington happened. Since the grid has existed the operators have been finding out the hard way what makes it vulnerable and they have been actively patching it up as they bring the grid...

My last pic straight up before I gave up. We are in 120' firs.

This nexus straight up was pretty neat.

I got a little hue difference maybe. It just got dark here.

not my plane, my pic. I fly an old 310.

That is a Thunder Mustang, my pic at a fly-in. They are a 3/4 scale replica of the P-51, complete with a custom 640 HP V12 engine. They outperform a mustang at a fraction of the price. They even make the righteous sound. Gives me goosebumps every time.

that's a nice sky, I have a nifty night pic in the Yakima River canyon with a good dark sky with the Pixel 6 night mode.

you and me both^ I have not seen them yet, but we are about retired and that is a bucket list trip for us.

@AlaskanNoob , Approach the problem from another direction. How much of a hassle is it to Shut down and later restart your equipment? Now, how much of a hassle is it to replace a significant amount of hardware? Those are the questions. If I were as concerned as you seem to be, then I would have...

thanks! I am in the city lights of the Puget Sound area, but I am hopeful. I'll not sleep much tonight :)

The civil engineer emailed the final stamped stormwater plan yesterday. I have to do a few edits of elevations on the print and draw in the new side sewer. Just a quick sketch and I will shoot that off to a Dropbox file I share with the lady in the city office. Send her an email and then the...

While the ideal condition is no shadow ever, if you are net metering those deep winter days have little relative value.

The panels are about 21% efficient, and the rest is heat.

If the roof has slope and you have a few inches of space under the panels, it will start a convective current through there and siphon the heat out the top. A breeze can also act on that setup. Down tight to the surface is bad for the panels, they groove on cooler temperatures.

cool,er,hot! I would use a temperature system rather than voltage of the solar panel output to control things. You want a certain minimum temperature of water. Imagine a clear cold morning, the panels start making good juice and you give your water tank a dose of that cold water because that is...

do you understand how to wire it up?

new install with all new equipment. It is not a good thing, but you can get bad gear out of the box. Do not obsess about it. Gather data for a while and then inform the installer of the discrepancies.

It's just off topic.

a simple thermostatic control will get you the water you want. Put a mercury thermostat in the upper manifold housing of the solar tube collectors. Set it so it makes the circuit when the that housing is greater than 40C Turn this unit up to the upper limit, or simply modify the spring inside...

If interesting includes pain in the lower back, that's me crouched down and head out the window so I can almost see what I am doing. They stripped the forms off that pool wall and we got a couple of pieces of 8" sch 40 PVC in. The long factory bell joints do not push together by hand, so in...

you attempted to employ the weight reduction program. Sometimes it works!