Recent content by Aspen Eng

I’ve got Starlink at our off-grid place and it works great. It costs $110 a month (just went up from $99) and the dish was $500. It’s a small rectangular dish - maybe 12 in by 20 in. You can do basically anything and it’s never down. We don’t have cell service and DSL was $90/mo. With DSL if you...

I used to work in hydro for the electric utility and you definitely have to have some way to divert the water when the unit trips off-line from the grid. The grid keeps the unit at it's synchronous speed (60 hz) no matter the load but once it's off-line the speed increases almost...

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We built a small off-grid place with a garage and all the utilities and then built a larger home. The original house has a Schneider SW4848 with nine 300 watt panels and lead-acid batteries so the most it will ever produce is 2800 watts or so. We also have a propane generator that we thought...

I have a Midnite Solar Combiner Box (MNPV6) that I'm not able to use. Free to a good home if you pay shipping (from Utah).

As an update, I think I've got the XW system working well now. The only issue we had recently was that the Gateway stopped communicating with the cloud so we needed to get a replacement. I signed up as an installer with Schneider and received a different contact phone number and the difference...

I finally got Schneider to agree that there is something wrong with one of the XWs and I should get the replacement tomorrow. It wasn't easy - it took 2 months and I've probably sent 20 or 30 emails and had at least that many phone conversations with the distributor. I'm hoping that once I...

Thanks for the reply - these are pretty complicated, right? I think I'm coming to the point with Schneider that they agree there is something wrong with one of the XW units. They are brand new units and I have been trying to commission them for over a month now but it's not working. The site...

I'm trying to commission an off-grid system consisting of 2 Schneider Conext XW Pros with a power distribution panel and 2 60-150 Conext charge controllers. I've been having all sorts of problems but I think I've narrowed it down to one of the XWs. It will only try to start, then shutdown and...