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I was more interested in the difference between stateside and non US view on grounding really. When I say mine system is ungrounded, that's really to say it's a floating ground which I've never had an issue with (not the definitive form of data conclusion, I'm aware, but valuable nonetheless)...

I'd be more wary of the inverter moreso than the batteries, especially transformer based units. By their very nature, they create strong (relatively) EM fields. My inverter is a low frequency unit with a 45lb transformer in it, and it buries the needle of my Trifield T2 em/ef/rf meter within 4...

Really? So you make your own inverters, panels, and charge controllers too, I suppose? Or do you throw money at those items? I didn't take this forum to be expressly for people who are building their batteries from premade, essentially plug and play parts, based off the work of other people...

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You need not regale me on what California is... I'm well aware. I saw all this coming 20+ years ago, and where the testing labs were for it. It's why I moved from RI and went off-grid in the Maine mountains. I've watched it spread from those places like a creeping virus, unfortunately including...

We used our phones as hotspots for 6 years, though the data was always spotty until we upgraded with a booster antenna (purchased on Amazon for somewhere around $150), which ended up working much better, but not so much to reliably steam movies without getting chronically annoyed by the...

So does Simplphi. I'm not vouching for them or plugging them in any way, mind you. In fact, I didn't choose them for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was a total lack of diagnostic information interfacing which should be standard on batteries that expensive (the phi 3.8s anyway)...

I just took a peek at the spec sheet and general features...a variable voltage, variable current (up to 100a) output with dual voltage input, for $400? That's an abnormally low price point, to say the least. If it really does what it says it does, with reasonable longevity, that's a...

The "Freemium" business model has really taken off across far too many sectors of commerce. Funny though, I just started seeing articles of a noted phenomena about cats having a habit of laying on ground mounted Starlink dishes... I'm going to go out on a limb here and say they like the warmth...

That Trace gear will likely still be running long after all these MPPs and Growatts people are installing now are in recycle scrap heaps, along with the next 3 they replaced it with.

They will likely go the way LED horticultural light rigs have transitioned over the last few years really. For quite a few years, the DIY route produced superior results as you could spec components that the commercial units had to cheap out on in order to meet price points, not to mention...

Ah crap, didn't know that. I wonder if one can't simply get one shipped overseas from here via an intermediary, if one were so inclined. I think they did go up to $1300 recently as well. I myself have been in the market for an external lifepo4 charger, for efficiency gains and less noise...

Assuming your talking to me, I have my own company, and it's cannabis cultivation. But sure, let's play along with unidimensional and assumptive thought processes and say that I'm a rep for "fill in the blank" battery manufacturing... Does this somehow invalidate the legitimacy of the questions...

If batteries are anything like grow lights, you can have every component UL listed in your diy rig, but because you did it, it won't count for anything.

My off grid system is intentionally left ungrounded, and has been 9 years and running. I'll tell you this, for what it might matter to you... I've seen grounded systems fried by nearby lightning strikes which traveled through the ground and found their way into the system via the ground rod...

And yet, these personal interactions are of benefit to the global community, are they not? You asserted that all these companies are sending Mr Prowse their products to review because they are looking for his expert observations in order to improve upon their product, which is absolutely false...

Ok,and so are you purporting here that what you build is superior to all commercially built units and you've done the exhaustive testing to verify this, or is it just that you've seen a couple things here and there and are basing a rather large blanket statement over the entire industry? Have...

I've seen this very thing debated amongst the various electrical gurus across multiple forums. Perhaps it's a matter of lexicon disagreement, I don't know. I'm clearly not an EE (though apparently many of them do not agree upon then terminology either), but the way I've always understood it was...

Have you posted a guide somewhere showing all the components you use? I'd be interested in delving into the whole shebang, from parts to programming to optimization of charge/discharge practices.

How are the HABs holding up for you? I just deployed a pair in my new system last week. So far so good. Btw, kilovault (spoke to Marlin in particular) recommends that float value to minimize micro-cycling, or at least reiterated that value when I asked how I could minimize such. I don't know...

Same thing happened to me two years ago. I've always been a cash and carry kinda guy, hadn't used credit in well over 25 years, and haven't officially worked for anyone other than myself for 7. Decided I was tired of hauling logs on my shoulders and pushing wheelbarrows around and the like and...

That's far more palatable than what my system is, and pardon the pun here, dishing out to keep thems internets coming in. 31° and light snow and we are pinging 180w on the kilowatt. I've identical storage as you actually. Makes sense the smaller form factor of the 2nd gen would use less power...

Good question. I get the impression that, from what I've read, two emf wherein one is not significantly stronger than the other and are "travelling" in sufficiently oppositional directions, can create a twisted and entangled (for lack of a better phrase) field which could complicate things for...

Yea, I was following the thread on the Genetry forum... Well, I read through every thread actually. I like to know what I'm hoping in bed with before doing so in general. I didn't think it had anything to do with a dirty sine wave though, unless I'm mistaken on that, because the sine looks...

Also, I received my unit within 6 days of ordering. I believe they have a stock of them there now.

I get what your are saying, to a point. But just throwing numbers out there and comparing amp hours vs cost and the flexibility to service your own gear is not tantamount to saying you are building superior systems to what some of these companies are doing, and I don't mean eg4 and big battery...

How about some minutia, here. The ones you build, the details and layout, and exactly which commercially built units you've tested your builds against, how you've tested them, and how you can assess longitudinal performance between yours and "X" brand?

So. I had passed along this information regarding these chargers to the Kilovault tech support, and received this verdict, for whoever might find it useful, "In short the constant voltage chargers are not acceptable. The voltage is too high. The BMS will protect it, but that is only meant...

However, I'm thinking it's possible to run these chargers through my classic 150, which will be out of a job once my Hawk's Bay CC comes in.

So i have an eg4 chargerverter, and I've never been able i get this thing to go past 47a for some reason. Every time I program it to go to 100a, it will stay there until the auto display off occurs, which it will then set itself to somewhere between 47 and 49 amps. This means I've...