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Any recommendation on an attentive sales person? The guy I have been talking to seems to be gone a lot. Not responded to an email or phone call in a couple of days.

Thanks all!

Hey all, Real quick and easy question.. Do Santan Solar typically charge a credit card fee and if so how much? Thanks much!

What was your result? Did you every get it working?

I have attached a specifications sheet in the PDF... they can operate up to 600VDC with UL compliance, but in reality can go up to 1000VDC. Each panel produces up to 29VDC at 1000W/m2 irradiance. So it looks like the panels can have 20 panels in series to make a 600VDC output which should...

By the way the model number of the panels is TSM PA05

Hey all, I have an bunch of Santan SSG 240W used panels that I want to use for roofing on an outbuilding. I don't currently have any other power needs in that building so not ready for a full system out there. I also have an unused Senville 240VAC 24000 BTU inverter minisplit heatpump that...

I don't think anyone would do that, would they? As I said, I am glad that having no control or insight to monitor for issues or failures works for you in your very specific instance. If they ever fix this stuff, feel free to ignore it. :cool: I am looking for low cost systems I can package...

Well I am glad you have such simple needs. However the ability to monitor and configure everything remotely is very desirable to a lot of other people. I can buy a wifi connected light bulb for 20 bucks that I can make sing and dance from anywhere in the world. I can remotely monitor...

What is really annoying is that the EG4 hardware is seemingly capable, but the software is so flaky and hard to configure. If they could just invest in some decent code and get these things genuinely plug and play with reliable MODERN (no serial cables!!) RJ45 style connections into a laptop or...

mmm.. interesting. Like ice I guess.. one of the few things that expand on freezing. How much does it expand percentage wise? I am guessing you are saying it destroys the container it is in?

ah.. gotcha. So it cannot be remelted to bring it back to life?

By everything you mean the charge or you mean the battery destroys itself?

Interesting background! So is a $5/MWh a typical cost for most utilities for generation of power? I suppose the parasitic losses of the Na/S batteries would be pretty high and it would basically degrade to zero charge fairly quickly. Did he give you any insight on whether the losses were...

do you have a link to that app please so we can check it out?

Granted I was posting amounts for name brand pre built packs with support and shipping. It wasn't exactly my point... the point was asking if anyone has seen anyone playing with the thermal batteries.

Interesting.. Obviously I know some of the supplied power will be needed to keep the battery at temperature. However fast loading and unloading will often help with that. For safety and thermal stability, I was envisioning a pit dug into the ground, lined with syrofoam, then concrete, then...

I know right? It seems very promising for people that need 100kWh storage without it costing 40 grand plus

I have the same issue.. the best place for photons is basically the northside (east-west) boundary of our property. I plan to mount some of the panels on frames on some extra lumber mounted to the top of a 8 foot tall cedar fence. It will need some extra bracing too due to more wind load and...

How's it coming along? Any resolution? You are not alone! We are rooting for you! ;-)

I just bought a similar one that also indicates which lines have data flow on them. If I know there is traffic, it takes one more variable out of the troubleshooting

This is what is frustrating. SS know there are issues, but instead of giving workarounds to the issues up front, they just let everyone waste their time and bash their head against the wall trying to get this shit working. There should be a "STOP - READ THIS FIRST!" notice with everything they...

Oh right... interesting! Well let us all hope we never have to worry about that at sea level. :cool:

I am getting the drivers I have to connect to the USB device and see it as a serial port. There is data /traffic / garbage coming out of the green pair and brown pair of wires to a terminal viewer app (called coolterm). However Watchpower sees nothing at all. Sooooo ... soo annoying and...

Right? It is so annoying that SS knows this shit doesn't work out of the box and let us all spend 1000s of collective manhours fighting with it instead of just making a definitive solution (even if that is just saying "Our shit doesn't work. Buy this and this and this and do this and it will be...

I was messing around with my signature solar 6500 setup yesterday. Got nothing out of the RJ45 to USB cable they provide with. This is the driver SS are given out to work with their com port. I just added it to mine and still nothing.. no difference in communications. Is this the driver they...

I don't mind buying replacement cables. Just give us something that works easily and QUICKLY out of the box. That is supposed to be the point of buying vendor matched all in one batteries and inverters ... so that it is easy and just works. Please and thank you

Could you share those on the forum or via DM please? I have mine recognizing the USB dongle that comes with it. I removed the two wire cable that Sig Solar provided and wired in a Cat 5 cable with 4 pairs of wires. To see if there was anything coming out of the EG4 LCD control module on the...

Hey @SunFarmer did you get this resolved? Still having trouble getting my hardware to talk *at all* to any of Sig Solars software. No via wifi or RJ45toUSB . What did you end up doing? I am sick of messing with it trying to get something to work.

Still under NDAs 40 to 50 years later? Gotta love this country, eh? ;-) I suppose when you pay 50 bux a watt for a mountain top installation, you know it has to be well made. Probably the same spec they used for satellite/orbital installs.. with dramatic temperature swings from 100 to 500...

Good point on this! I bought a bunch shelving and got throw in a big box of industrial power surplus supplies and have been using the 3 phase throw switches as some of my cutoffs. Very beefy and well made. I didn't think about them making an arc similar to high DC volts, but I suppose they would...

I grew up in the UK, where we had to wire our own plugs onto appliances (actually something taught at school when you are about 11). Yep.. not just "batteries not included"... also "plugs not included". Cheap b'stards. I have zapped myself on poorly wired UK plugs more than I care to say...

Gotcha. Thanks.

So I have four EG4 (no LED batteries) set to DDDU DDUD DDUU DUDD The instructions I saw was the first battery needs to be set to binary DDDU to talk to the inverters, then the others just have to be unique DIP setting. Is that not the case? I am just trying to get the inverter to talk to my...

copy that. I will give it a go. I am not specifically looking at solar assistant yet; just trying to get the inverter to give me anything at all to the laptop.