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  1. 303Refugee

    My cabin aspirations

    Finally our system is installed and running. We havent given it a full 24hr test. But we ran a 5k A/C, lights and fans for over 3 hours never pulling from the batteries. Next we need to see if the battery bank can run stuff all night without hitting low voltage cutoff. But so far so good! We...
  2. 303Refugee

    My cabin aspirations

    I'm still accumulating all the parts and wires. I have everything now. Or so I thought. Now im shopping fuses too. There's so much to consider! So I should have it all installed in a week or 2. Because were only going out to the property 1 day a week. It's hard to get much done, As its been so...
  3. 303Refugee

    My cabin aspirations

    Dude! Thank you for all the great info. I'm much more confident now!?? Another question if you don't mind. Let me preface. I called Battleborn awhile back to ask some questions cuz they spout about having The best customer service and free consultation blah blah blah. When I spoke to the "tech"...
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    My cabin aspirations

    Ahhh I see I understand. what is the real benefit of running them in parallel like that as opposed to just running my 6 in series? I'm super scared of burning up my grow Watt or something I just don't know enough about this solar at electrical. I want this system as idiot proof as possible...
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    My cabin aspirations

    Pardon my ignorance but please explain what 3s2p is
  6. 303Refugee

    My cabin aspirations

    I have 6- 100w panels placed approx 50' of PV cable away. I believe 10gage PV extension cables are appropriate. And 6gage for battery cables
  7. 303Refugee

    My cabin aspirations

    So I purchased a 10x20 cabin and I want to outfit it with solar power I purchased a Growwatt all in one 3000 watt 24v unit. two Battle Born batteries and 600 watts of solar panels. Can I really hook it up like the picture? Is the set up different if I'm running 2 batteries?
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