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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:

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...

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...

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...

Last night a storm came through the area here. Lightning struck and things happened. Lets see if someone can figure out what happened.... This first video is the lightning strike itself.

I got a weird email just now from my house insurance company aka State Farm. Ting monitors the electrical network of a home using a smart plug-in sensor to help detect hazards, so they can be fixed before they have a chance to ignite...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/tesla-battery-catches-fire-illinois-shutting-down-highway-hours-report I wonder if they ran over something earlier or not.

I built a setup to replace the battery monitors I have on my cars that reports voltages via wifi to a website since they discontinued the monitors so I needed a replacement. Everything works perfect on 9v batteries aka the kind you put in a voltmeter etc. I need to measure 12v car batteries...

The only thing that would make what this guy is doing a non starter for me is the noise level.

Hadn't seen this posted and found it interesting so sharing.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/large-cluster-sunspots-strong-solar-flares-power-grids-detected-by-nasa Batten down the hatches :)

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/solaredge-solar-inverter-manufacturer-lays-off-16-percent-workforce Roughly 900 people at SolarEdge will lose their jobs Not looking to good. But they seem to be trying to tighten up the bottom line to fix things.

I always make sure I charge my scooter during the day while awake just in case. Since this can happen.... https://www.foxnews.com/us/e-bike-battery-explodes-burns-nyc-store-video

Working on the sites picture resizing and I needed something big to post so here is the inside of my tp6048 :)

Watched this just now on foxnews. Not going to help the industries image much.... Thoughts? https://www.foxnews.com/media/solar-companies-accused-targeting-elderly-americans-using-troubling-sales-practices

Has anyone found specs for the duty cycle for the relay or switch device for sbu to sub and back? I'm wondering how often this can be done before the inverter dies.

I have posted several times in threads about using solar to heat pipes and batteries during the winter so I figured I would post a screenshot of the setup in action so to speak. This was pic was taken this morning at 6:48am with the outside temperature at 35 degrees and the wind blowing about...

Wasn't sure where to put this but it was cool to watch someone trying to figure out what to do during the outage and didn't have the system installed when the outage happened :)

I have my 12v ip22 20 amp charger installed and its working great. I want to program it to full charge the battery bank and then quit charging till the battery bank reaches 13 volts and then charge it back full again and repeat forever :) This way if I have cloudy days it will charge the...

This was wild :) This is what happens when the magic smoke gets out of your inverters !

I'm wanting to buy a 20 amp battery charger that will not drain the batteries when the its unplugged from ac aka the wall. This is proving to be a bit hard to find so far. I want to connect the chargers ac plug to a smart switch and leave the battery charger connected to the battery bank. This...

For those using solar assistant and victron smart shunts is anyone using multiple smart shunts and do they show up like pack #1, pack #2, etc like batteries with bms hookups do?

I have digital locks on the doors to my workshop and house so to get into the workshop where the solar equipment is requires entering a code or using the fingerprint scanner on it. This works fine but if you have gloves on not so good. Never fails I get gloves on when working on oily stuff I...

I about to build something that will be cool or stupid, not sure which yet. I have pine trees that shade my panels at 1pm to 2pm each day. I will get them cut down eventually but the moneys not in the cards this year. Its very expensive to get trees removed around here at $5000 a tree I will be...

This one may be all in my head and just a bunch of coincidences. I'm trying to charge my 12V lifepo4 batteries (weize 12v and chins 12v in parallel) and every battery charger I put on them has issues. Clouds rolled in and I won't have any real sunshine for 2 days so I wanted to use 12v battery...

I solved a problem I was having that I thought others might benefit from. Well at least those of us that keep fish for pets :) The wife and I had the brilliant idea a few years ago to go in to the fish raising biz. Betta fish, snail, angel fish, etc. Then prices dropped like rocks and we lost...

Being able to monitor the solar setups is required of course and one of the things that was ticking me off was not being able to use bluetooth except while standing beside the equipment basically. I needed to monitor it from my computer room which is over 100 feet away easily and also when not...

Well not really news worthy to most but to me it was the final straw to finishing my primary solar setup. I moved the last heat pump (mini split) over to solar. So the entire house except for the stove, hot water heater, dryer and a few kitchen outlets are all on solar now. I will be adding...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/florida-grid-free-community-harnesses-solar-keep-power-on-through-hurricanes Thought this might be interesting to some. Nice to see builders embracing solar for a change.

Well I pulled the trigger and bought a battery that shipped today. I'm still not sure exactly when it gets here as its showing "label created" so maybe more info on that tomorrow. Here's what I bought. CHINS Bluetooth LiFePO4 Battery Smart 48V 100AH Lithium Battery Peak Current 500A, Mobile...

After spending some of the day adding a generator plug to my solar load panel I was resting between parts of the job and decided to look around in a few of the various electrical boxes that make up the outside wiring panels on my home (you wouldn't believe how many there are..). While doing this...

I didn't know where to post this one. Funny as all get out ! https://www.foxnews.com/us/unlikely-animal-falls-from-sky-knocks-power-out-thousands-new-jersey-town

I found this story just now : https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/more-fires-more-smart-meter-recalls-for-sensus Same meter I have I think. Well same brand and within the year range.

A spammer posted these this morning and got deleted but I snagged the pics before they deleted the thread. Figured I'd put them here... I thought they looked cool.

Anyone that has done the 50 amp plugs for their generator hookup, what wire did you go with? I was going to use the solid core ac wiring I had left over from my tp6048 install and I don't like the way it "feels" in the clamps on the plug. All of the pics Ive been able to find show multi strand...