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To update on this... So this order never arrived. It was supposed to be delivered in 3 weeks from Italy. The tracking number provided was clearly a Polish tracking number and the Polish tracking number always said: "waiting for parcel from seller" or words to that effect. 3 weeks came and...

In London. I took the plunge in July and bought 4 x 105ah cells for £150 including VAT and delivery. They took 3 months to arrive from China and there were no additional fees. They tested at 88ah so not a great first experience of buying from China direct, but I've enjoyed seeing what I can do...

Short answer: if you are happy to use the propane generator quite a bit then no you don't NEED solar. But...for my money, it would be a whole lot less faff when you're out on your fishing trips to wire in a separate 12v or 24v solar system into the van to power your lights, fridge and CPAP and...

I'm in the UK so we have quite different regulations but I seriously doubt you could legally/compliantly use the actual wires in your electrical outlet socket to get your power from your solar panels on your deck into a battery inside your condo, even if you totally disconnect that socket from...

Ah...so in the UK a GFCI is an RCD. So plugging an RCD plug into my inverter and then plugging my metal bodied toaster into that RCD plug would be the general advice if no ground rod were available. Makes sense. One of these: Masterplug ARCDKG-MP Single Socket RCD Safety Adaptor,

Hello. I live in London, UK. I've dabbled and played with solar for about 12 years. To get started and find out what it was all about I originally bought a 60w thin-film solar panel kit from Maplin, which I put on the roof of my south facing car port, and attached it via its charge controller to...

Sorry to hijack but this thread is as close as I've found to my own confusion and anxiety with grounding a small off-grid portable system. If I could take the thought experiment one step further...so I have my plastic milk crate, with the inverter's chassis ground connected to the negative bus...