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Magic smoke is pretty, this time of year.

Thought exponent, don't try this at home until they do and tell you it worked... Can you have a small PV setup with microinverters...

Just ran some errands and decided to take a picture of the PHEV use. 900+ miles driven and still have over 3/4 a tank of gas. 35 hours...

Surge Protective Devices This globally-compliant, cost-effective Type 2 Surge Protective Device has higher nominal and total discharge...

This is what the wife uses. Usually a bunch of fungus indicates that the plants/soil are too wet. We use pretty warm water when mixing...

It's still not clear to me if personal solar installations would be affected by a CME/majore solar flare. The main issue I have always...

HEMP. If that happens there would be a full blown nuclear exchange. Your PV system burning up would be the least of your problems.

Living in Florida we find that lightning & hurricanes are more of a threat than CME & EMP. I install ferrite for RFI (Ham Radio)...

What is Starfish Prime (EMP)?

I think it is fairly certain that the field never completely collapses. That would irradiated everything and kill it. We can surmise...

The moving molten core in Earths center is why we have a magnetosphere, if it ever stopped we would become like Mars and our atmosphere...

The power meter keeps an accurate record of your decline.

We only took a off the side glancing blow this time: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/electric-power-community-dashboard

Between an EMP or a CME the odds are in mother nature's favor. The current 11 Year Solar Cycle is about to peak, we may just find out...

This one would have hurt.

If you installed in Jan. and you are in the northern hemisphere. You are in for some good times! I installed in June and it started...

Hey thanks! Looks very promising. I will contact them tomorrow.

We no doubt also get some temperature derating but mainly what kills Summer output for us is the weather - more often in Summer it's...

I would love to try water cooled irrigation pipe on the back of my ground mount. Heat the pool up and cool down the panels. More KW...

It's good that you are observant enough to notice these things. It will stand you in good stead to notice if something out of the...