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Just a quick intro to say hello. I have been interested in solar for several years. Back in 2017 I was pretty hot and heavy on it when we experienced a natural disaster in our area named Hurricane Harvey that dumped about 50" of rain over a few days. Our home which is in Zone X (not a flood...

Just wanted to share this with those of you who may be interested in building your own batteries. I was going to build my batteries for my diy home solar system, but home owners insurance concerns kept me from moving forward with that. Anyhow I looked back and I ordered this box from Alibaba...

Thank you for offering your input, I do appreciate it. The documentation / thorough labeling suggestions are a great start, and yes you are correct it will be a commercially available plug and play system for the most part. The guides suggestions are great as well, we have that now for utilizing...

Good advice, thank you and I'm glad to see that others are thinking 20-30 years down the road. The game changes as we keep saying "good morning" whether we like it or not. I know I can not do today what I did in my 30's, and Im afraid the compounding accelarates over the next 30 years. There are...

This guy does a really good review on the box, and building it out.

Subscribed. Those old greenhouses are cool. My aunt and uncle had one when I was a kid. I helped a buddy dismantle one a few years back, pretty tedious to say the least. Looks like the one you scored is commercial grade, I'm jealous.

Sorry for the delayed response, but thank you both for the input. I'm planning to start reaching out to our various entities to see what all is required.

I like it, been looking / lurking and talking with different excellent solar resources, some on here. I have not come across this application, but it does present another option. I'm glad I built my house with a 400-amp service (320CL), even though I will likely never use it all. However, when I...

Asking out of ignorance, do you have a transfer switch that allows you to get off of the solar / inverters and back solely on grid power?

Thank you for the feedback, you make some good points that I will look into. Our system will be a grid tie. I will explore further your comment about it being a GT PV. If these inverters / controllers work this way, (fail to the grid as a backup) then that would be best case scenario. We would...

I skimmed through this thread, hope I did not miss it. Has there been any progress / update on UL listing for this battery?

Anybody have any experience with solar installs in Windstorm areas? Specifically coastal areas (Texas), where we are required to get construction inspections (WPI8, I beieve), to qualify for windstorm insurance coverage. If so, how did you go about getting answers to your questions regard what...

"Necessity IS the mother of invention!" I do a lot of projects by myself also, great idea.

Sorry if the title was not real clear, but I have seen some conflicting reports. My original goal was 100% offset of our energy bill w/ exception of required monthly charges to stay grid tied. Some information for reference is listed below: *Current Annual Usage is 32,500Kwh averaged over 2...

You are right, it is a lot for residential. The first home we bought we completely rebuilt the service, and added a new garage and another 1k sq' of living area. The electrical was always the achilles heel, so when we built the home we are in now I knew we would eventually have a pool and...

Thanks to all of you who commented and welcomed me here. Like I said in the intro, it's been a little while since I seriously entertained this endeavor, but more likely now than ever, it just makes good sense. I do appreciate the suggestions some of you made to consider and research different...

Well you have given me somthing to think about. I will have to try to understand and investigate your analysis so that I have a better understanding of what I may be getting into. This is good information. I appreciate the time you took to share your perspective.

Thank you, I agree, it seem that you are gonna be on your own to keep things working. I really do like the idea of having a system. Just have to do a little more investigating. Love the closing comment, "virtual money roll in".

Well, it is said that experience is the best teacher. Unfortunately, right now I am so inexperienced on this subject, that it is difficult to phrase a question well enough for y'all to understand what I am trying to ask, lol! You understood me perfectly and thank you for the generous answer. It...

Good info thanks for sharing.

I wanted to see what other are thinking about this. I have been moving forward with research and speaking with some vendors and permitting entities to understand more about the process. Everything looks very positive and seems to be a no brainer in many ways. But I do have one concern that may...

I have not been able to find BMS info on this battery, has anyone else confirmed what it is? Expecting 200amps??? Otherwise, specs and price look really good. Still very new to all of this, so maybe I'm just not interpreting the spec sheet correctly regarding BMS. Please educate me if so.

Will has a great video that is worth the time to watch. He talks about needs for min string voltage as well as calcs for max cold temp voltage. Watch the video and run your own calcs. Would you rather go off of what someone told you or do your own due diligence? This also helps a lot with the...