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Beginners Corner and Safety Check
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Magic Smoke Released... Learn From My Mistake!
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Solar Systems
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Marine
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Permit Free Plug-in
Dead simple! Plug solar panels directly into an outlet.
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Solar Water Pumping & Heating
Need to move water with some sunshine? Talk about it here!
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Trucking APU
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Energy Storage
General Battery Discussion
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DIY LiFePO4 Battery Banks
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Second Life Lithium Batteries
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Uncommon Batteries: LTO/ NCA/ NMC/ Li-Poly
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Solar Panel Mounting
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Solar Charge Controllers
MPPT/PWM/Converters without batteries and anything else you find! Discuss it here :)
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Solar Generator and Micro Systems
A battery/inverter/charge controller setup for mobile or stationary application. They are usually ready built or "plug-n-play".
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Fuel Back-up Generators
Backup petroleum energy storage for off-grid solar systems
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Heat Pumps
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Wiring, Protection & Tools
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Photons to Tokens: Off-Grid AI
Running local AI (LLMs, image generation, GPU rigs, homelab servers) on solar and batteries. Power budgets, inverter and battery sizing, efficiency tuning, idle-load tricks and build threads.
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Electric Vehicles
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