Recent content by aragonx

Victron Quattro 10000VA. Right now my panels can fully charge my batteries by 11AM on a sunny day. My issue mainly is I only have a Victron 48/1200VA. Which I have seen it go up to 1000 watts. So I need more inverting power I guess. Which will lead me to get more batteries. I only have...

Thank you! That is great news. Now, time to get me some cells. :)

Hi, So, I have 2 strings of 12 volt LiFePO4 batteries x 4 to make 48 volts, 100 AH each. This is working well but I now realize, again, I went in the wrong direction. So I want to pivot to cells. The cells I'm thinking about getting are 314 AH. If I understand correctly, I can't just add...

I love your 2nd point. What price can you put on having some peace of mind? Your third point is also a very strong one. Most server admins I know have backups and redundancy. It never occurred to me until just now that there is a single power option without some sort of self generation...

I have two responses to this: 1) My 401k has not done so well since Covid. So compared to that, this investment is much more reliable and has a higher return. The key here is reliability. People speculate on what their return would be if they invested. My energy bill is my energy bill. If...

Very nice test results! Well above stated AH.

That makes me cry. The cheapest I've seen in the USA is $1700 for that model. If I could find it for around $900 like that one, I would be all over it!

Battery Hookup is very close. About a 3 hour drive. And they have some interesting auctions. Time to try and snipe a deal. gobelpower not only charges shipping, they have a 4.4% payment charge. I finally bit the bullet and signed up. But the payment charge stopped me. :(

Awesome. Thank you for replying! Now I just need to figure out how to hide the bill from my wife. :)

Has anyone ordered from gobelpower.com before? Good or bad experience? I have to create an account to get shipping info, which I am holding off doing. Is $59 a good deal for grade B 280 Ah cells? This will be my first time buying cells and my first time ordering from outside the USA. So I'm...

I would not suggest you sell your inverter just yet. If you really want to try the 12 volt thing, you can get a cheap 300 watt 12 volt inverter from Amazon for about $25. That would let you test your bug zapper at least. Then when you are ready to go back to 24 volts, you would still have the...

Good suggestions. Thanks!

I should probably not talk being a noob myself, so take everything I say with a grain or so of salt. Victron has an AIO in the EasySolar-II right? So you kinda get the best of both worlds. Be very careful where you buy your Victron stuff from though. I got mine off of Amazon and the retailer...

Okay. So, is there a good battery balancer anyone would recommend for 12v batteries?

Right now, I wouldn't buy anything. First I would look on the back (front, top and bottom) of your charge controller. Get the make and model. See if you can google some info about it in English. Then you can see how much you can panel it with and how much you can charge. After that, make...