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Good day. I am in the process of building a new home 3b 2 bath 1800 sq ft in eastern Kentucky. Power company quoted 46000 to run electric. Now, I plan on wiring the home myself, as I know how to run wiring, install breakers, etc... 13kw system to me seems large enough, with enough battery...

Awesome! I also plan to have generator backup as well but i am confused as to how i would charge the batteries with a non inverted generator. Any ideas

Also, its very windy where we are building. Any thoughts on attaching a turbine as another charging source?

Not that i can think of. I have only been using them intermittently while building the house.

eg4 6500 ex48v

https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-6-5k-off-grid-inverter-6500ex-48/

I purchased 2 eg4 6500’s from signature solar and they came with 1/0 cables to go from inverter to bus bar. Will’s video says 2/0. Do i need to purchase 2/0 cable

So i would wire the dc generator into the inverter as i would the grid tie? Sorry if this is a dumb question.

On my eg4 6500s, I can connect 2 strings of panels. Can I do 7 and 8, or should I just do 7 & 7

Ok, so basically just and extension cord to the ac input of one of the charge controllers? Will it be an issue to only hook 1 of the 2 inverters to the generator

How would i do that? With a extension cord?

So am i correct in assuming that with every hour of sunlight under perfect conditions i should be able to bank/use 6500 watts per hour using an all in one rated for 6500 watts. I dont know why this just popped into my head

Ok, thank you very much

I have done a search of the site and cannot see where this has been answered, and if it has i apologize. Here is my system 2xEg4 6500 ex48v 6xLifePower4 48v batteries 31x 455w panels I would like to add another battery bank and charge/use both. Can someone provide some guidance? I know...

I am thinking of doing a standalone well with its own batteries and panels. But i will look at the one you suggested. Thank you very much for all these answers

Could you explain how that would look?

Perfect. Thank you

I meant if I did. I have 14k in panels for 2 inverters. Just making sure on my calculations.

I have a 2hp, 10.2a 1500watt ac well pump installed. I would like to retrofit it to run on solar but I have couple of questions. Static water level is 60ft and pump is set at 135 ft. 1. Could i just create its own mini-grid with 2000w of panels and a 3kw all in one? 2. RPS makes a retrofit...

I have 4 series strings of 8 455 w panels. 9.27a They are 125 feet from my house. What will my voltage drop be on 10g thhn?

Would you wire the inverter generator to both ac inputs on the aios

Would i use the combined series voltage?

Shows 120v output

Thank you for the info! The Solar community has been very helpful and welcoming thus far.

Have 2 6500ex with 6 LiFePower batteries. I’ve had them hooked up and running off and on. Today, when i turned the solar panels on, neither one went into bypass mode. So I turned the batteries on, and switched the breakers for both inverters on and it sent the batteries into error mode. So I...

I have 8 of the eg4 Brightmount racks and we have a farm and a bunch of 8" treated fence posts. If i drove them into the ground with a pto post driver, do you all figure that would be sufficient mounting surface?

Ok, hanging inverters. Got the 1st one wired to bus bar. No power coming in yet obviously. Anything wild here?

Has anyone used wolf fang anchors to secure mounting to the ground