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Well it went north and south of me and I got lucky. Feel sorry for the ones down south of here. They are getting fried.

Yep its not pretty.

Well the storm split and it looks like I may get lucky and the gap pass over here.

I switched the pv breaker off. That's about all I can do about.

Each flashing lightning bolt is real time lightning strikes.....

OMG. Check this out !!! https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,33.090,-85.638,9 On the right side of the screen click the radar icon. Then click the play icon at the bottom. That is whats coming my way right now :(

It was out about 5 or 6 hours total. Was a little cloudy earlier today and then bam sttttrong winds and rain. A tree fell across the drive and server others are leaning now from it. Hoping I can get the power company to cut them down for free since they are going to take out the main power lines...

Powers back ! Also people keep pulling into my yard asking about my solar setup :)

Power company is estimating power back in 3 hours.

Lightning, rain and heavy winds. Powers out for half the county and I'm sitting here enjoying my solar setup :) Had to share ! For some reason my neighbors are not sharing my enthusiasm :unsure:

Yep and that's what happened to me not long ago. I'll have a midnight solar MNSPD-600 installed on the lines from my panels this Saturday to help with indirect lightning surges. One showing the small 12v inverter kicking off when it hits and you can see and hear the surging arcing. Then an...

Maybe Jess will get you fixed up.

Yep. I'm reading up on it more and more to decide what to use.

Heltec LoRa32 V3

Not yet but I'm looking at it.

I have no clue how their prices compare with anyone else on whatever product. That said I do host a BUNCH or online stores for companies. Shipping is, to put it simply, a pain in the arse for any online store. They have no control over what it presented half the time by a shipper. Be it fedex...

The way I'm changing stuff on my setup the all in one sungold tp6048 will continue powering the house and most of my panels will go thru its charge controller. I will be ordering an eg4 100 amp charge controller to charge the batteries using the remaining panels. This way the extra panels can...

That makes sense until you factor in being able to buy 2 or 3 all in ones for the price of one setup via components. Plus the all in ones are repairable if you buy the right one. You just replace the bad board if something happens and those boards at least with my tp6048 are WAY cheaper than...

The problem is going to be the 5 ton heat pump that is on the other house. I will measure its startup surge before deciding. I'm more interested in reliability than efficiency at this point. My mother lives in that house and I don't want her to even know I converted it to solar so she won't...

I got lucky on the mounting part since it didn't use a bracket to mount the original battery just a rubber tie down strap. I just went further out from where they had the strap attached on each end so that made it just right to hold the smaller battery in place.

Oh and it didn't cost but $99 off amazon vs $75 for a mower battery from the napa store in town. Win win !

The factory battery that came in my Exmark zero turn was pathetically undersized. I don't remember the exact rating but I think it was around 275cca. I have always had problems with it kicking back when trying to start it. The hotter the mower got from use the worse the problem got. To the point...

The other house has a nice low roof and a mild angle so it will be a breeze to put the panels up there. The main house is 2 stories with a scary pitch to it. All my roofs are shingled so that part helps too.

I ordered a 10 panel pallet from santan solar today. Will add another 2900 watts to the system. Should cover all of my needs for now. Next Ive got to get off my butt and order the system for the house beside the one I live in. Luckily on that one I can mount them to the roof so it should be...

What did you pick for the inverter in the configuration screen?

Its the amazon sungold team. Anytime I email the normal sungold they forward it to the amazon sungold bunch. Very pleased with their support.

Its been awhile since the lightning strike messed up my tp6048's display but I wanted to update things. Its fixed as of today and back working fine. Now that said this was just the display. At no time was the unit offline. It powered my home the entire time but the display just showed an error...

Oh and before anyone says it wasn't the aluminum wiring I had to replace the aforementioned wiring from corroding and losing connection in places at times. I am not going to argue its pros and cons since I'm not an expert in the field. I'm just stating why I feel the way I do and why I won't use...

The first home my wife and I owned was a mobile home. It had aluminum wiring feeding the thing and in the home too from what I can remember. It burned to the ground taking all of our belongs with it. I am not a fan of aluminum wiring :( All of my homes since then have had copper and if...

I would highly recommend getting solar assistant since it shows you exactly how much power the grid is providing and how much the solar is handling. Also you can cycle thru the readout on the display to show how much is being used by the grid side and how much is going out of the inverter. If...

Did you set it to solar/util/bat? aka sub? If not it won't use the solar panels to make power.

Wasn't me it was from someone else arguing with the victron cult members :)

Yep. Runs my entire house solar wise. Still haven't expanded the battery part yet past the one battery.

Mine is a bit over 400v max and the advantages is the wire size. The higher the voltage the less amps are involved moving the same amount of power so smaller wires can be used. BIG advantage when it comes to cabling cost. Normally it means two wires can replace 4, 6, 8 or more needed for...

If you did get away with supplying those businesses and something goes wrong and you damage their equipment or they just decide that they think you damaged their equipment or they decide suing you makes taking your land so they can expand their business size by claiming you damaged their...