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Hi - I'm interested in hearing other's opinions on the best way to mount flexible solar panels (MiaSole CIGS panels) to an RV TPO Roof? - My panels don't have adhesive, what do you recommend? Eternabond around the edges? Roll-on adhesive or peel-and-stick to the bottom? I'd prefer to not drill...

Hi - My work is pretty close to their office, been several times. My Victron supplier sent me to them for some 2/0 cable I needed, I also got my CIGS panels from them as well. They are a brick and morter store that have been around for several years, and while I haven't made the kind of...

Looks like OP has a Cerbo, visible in the first pic.

Looks like an interesting design - instead of the water flowing over the top of the water wheel utilizing gravity, the water builds up pressure and flows under the wheel. Clever!

No not really, I kind of gave up out of frustration. If I open the CSV files on another laptop running the EB Software the graph looks ok but the footer with the summary is still not correct, it likely pulls that info from the header of the CSV file. At some point I'll re-run the tests on a...

Hi @INCATFAN - since first posting this question I went ahead and got a LiFePO4 battery (200ah) - decided to keep the WFCO as stock and forego the DC-DC charger. It did fine - with the distance between the truck battery and the 7-pin there was enough voltage drop to not be an issue with high...

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OP here, nice to see this thread is still going. I stepped away from the discussion because to reevaluate our solar needs, but always remained curious of the CIGS performance vs the mono's - so in the end I got a couple 110w panels made by MiaSolé a couple months ago, the FLEX-02 110N model. I...

Will recently did a couple videos on this topic, showing the thermal runaway effect of lithium-ion based cells (similar to what's used in EVs): He repeated the test with a LiFePO4 pouch, much safer: These videos hopefully can put your wife at ease!

Do you have a link to a recommended one? I've only ever seen the blue plastic ones, which I have, and either I'm using it wrong or it's junk

Nice install! Could you share more about the IronRidge configuration? Are they mounted to the RV roof with adhesive or bolted down?

That looks really good! I love the symmetry and how clean it looks. Clever idea using the compression rods as posts, but doesn't that mean they are 'live'? Does the positive rod have any protection?

Hi, I picked up a ZKETECH EBD-M05 Mini Load Capacity tester to test the capacity of my 202ah and 85ah cells. I wanted an inexpensive solution since I only have the 8 cells and was only planning on running the tests only a couple times, and I liked the EB Tester software since seeing it demoed by...

Up here in Canada we don't have quite the same BLM land as the states - we have Crown land, some of which is available for camping. However, it seems like it's more set up for backpackers and portagers rather than boondockers. We do have plenty of amazing provincial parks but they have become...

Sounds like a good plan. I liked the idea of the sign board but always thought some kind of metal would be wise to act like a heatsink. Didn't know there was aluminum sign board. I was also thinking along the same lines as you with point A - especially if I got a flexible panel with an adhesive...