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I gave up on your solar venture at the 50 gallon hot water heater. Realized you are expecting way too much from a solar array. After reading more of the follow up, I think most of your problem is the wiring in the house. The power company may not be causing those failures so much as you might...

How about starting at the beginning. What exactly are you trying to power? Check for the approximate amount of sunlight for your area and then figure out how much battery you need to sustain your needs for rest of the day. If you can manage 4 to six hours of sunlight, then your battery bank has...

And I will add one more day still not knowing what the heck bitcoin is or about... If someone said it was a future take over of American currency or attempt at world domination pushing a digital currency I will be more likely to believe it.

Consumption is something else I was not sure about with a larger inverter. My budget is embarrassingly minimal. If it uses a lot of power just to have available, then may be a nail in the coffin. My current charge controller is a 30amp Makeskyblue V118. Since I first bought it, the price has...

And still to this day I have no clue to what bitcoin mining is or had anyone that could really explain it. I know a guy who invested early on in bitcoin and made a good chunk of profit. But he cant even tell me what it is he owns.

When you said continuous, did you mean like all the time? You know like those wind generators? They produce all of the time. Well when the wind is blowing enough... What you are asking would be impossible for me to procure. I would be very content to having 1000 watts continuous, like all the...

I am in need of one to power up a 5 hp motor on the lathe. If the off brand VFD units are good, then I can do that. Otherwise I already have all of the necessary junk to build a rotary converter. Spending over $1000 for a better VFD does not sound cheap. I have read these are mostly hp specific...

My small humble cabin in the woods is just about ready to be tied to the grid. Arrangements have been made with local co-op. Just waiting in line to get connected. My new service will be completely buried underground and out of the way. No trees requiring to be cut down or any land cleared out...

So do your batteries work like you were hoping? You have 4) 12 volt in series. Are they staying charged equally? I have been wanting to convert over from lead acid, but there seems to be a lot more to deal with initially. I can leave my cabin for weeks and not have any problems unless one of the...

I have noticed more recently that PowMr has really increased its line of products. Early on it seemed like they were selling poor copies of someone elses controllers. Now they have a fairly decent inventory. Are these proving to be reliable for the price? What do you think of the hybrid inverters?

At my humble cabin in the woods, I am increasing inverter size after doubling the panels. 48 volt battery bank and something around 2500/3000 watts continuous output. There are a ton of chinese inverters available. If you are using or had good luck with any of these... For the last several...

Why would there be any voltage on neutral to ground?

There is a live chat on that link you posted. Maybe ask the company if neutral is already bonded.

Just picked up 12) 315 watt panels and increasing size of existing solar array. Currently working with a 180 ah 48 volt battery bank with 30 amp charge controller. Using 6) 280 watt panels connecting 3 strings series then parallel. About 80+ voc and 740 watts. If I can configure the 12) 315...

Going grid to power 3 phase machinery and welding equipment. A Miller Syncrowave 500 takes a lot of amps. Of course out in the sticks on a co-op, I dont expect to get much.

At my cabin I currently have a four battery 48 volt bank using data storage AGM rated at 123ah. They are fed by 1800 watts of panels. 4 panels facing south and two others catching some late afternoon sun on the west roof. I also have a backup set of telecom suitcase batteries for just in case...

Red Bull should give you wings, not chinese wire crimps I had exact problem happen with the cheap crimps. Wrong size wire or die. I ended up using the larger die and it did seem tight enough. But next time I plan to shave a hair off the larger die so it will crimp farther down and resolve any...

I just joined up and this is my second post I found of interest tonight. Last year starting in March I was running the A/C almost non-stop. This year the heater has been very useful even in the last few days. I live where is is warm most of the time and humidity get way on up there. Right now it...

I just joined to ask more about your rain water collection. All of the details you are willing to discuss. My cabin is almost finished and rain water is last on list to get plumbing taken care of. Something I think would be perfect for your filtering issue would be a tee fitted with a ball...