Recent content by carlosspicyweiner

Any idea where I could get a thorough explanation of how the CC (physically) manages the input current? looking at my victron 100/50, spec sheet says do not exceed 60 amps input - aside from pulling it apart, I would like to know the physical mechanism that clips/diverts/ignores/wastes the...

This is what i've been looking for - can you elaborate on how/how much the voltage will increase with clipping? I had always assumed that "too much clipping" might just mean excess heat put on your CC. Tinkering with victron 100/50 12v setup- wondering how 4x parallel strings of 70v x 8amps...

hmm hadn't actually thought to much about adding some east/westies - have a great north facing space, will have to try to calculate if the extra harvest would be worth the cabling. also, help me out here - OPTSOOMS? Over Panelling The S#@t Out Of My System? something like that?

Guess the waste of panels is relative? I was lucky to get 18 x 315w panels for nothing, and have no use at the moment for 12 of them - so why not over panel the crap out of my systems? (keeping under voltage/current of course)

W1209 temperature controller Can't work out how I fried my circuit board. -hooked up 12v +/- to mini fuse board (fuse removed), rest of system running. -blue smoke, zap -certain I did not short the wiring, or short to any other part of system. -noticed the fuse board has LED which comes on...

-Installing 24v auto swing gates 12m away (call it 25m circuit) from 12v solar setup in shed. -Wanting to make it work running 6awg wire from the shed through my Victron 12/24 dc/dc (ouch $$) -Voltage drop still seems to be around 3.5-4.5% with distance and branching, and I was wondering if it...

Which one trumps? - Victron preset lithium says 14.2 Absorb, 13.5 float. battery says 14.4 - 14.7 absorb, 13.6 - 13.8 float. Guess the battery wins as is more delicate than the CC?

Have the same controller, had the same issues - very annoying charge controller, will not purchase again. Got things working, but it was so convoluted that I am not confident to tell you to do this that and the other, as things may behave differently on your setup, and you haven't stated...

any problem using a circuit tester? seems to work fine and you get the bonus of watching the light dim as the cap charges...never see it mentioned.

Hoping this doesn't get lost in the sea of replies to my original post :sneaky: Epever responded! - in broken English, but was nice to hear back nonetheless. The tl;dr is...wire the lithium battery to the inverter..:cautious: The instructions specifically say not to do this without linking...

Hello all, Anyone know why The Epever controller instructions say - "When the lithium battery and the inverter are used together, connect the controllers (load) dry contact to the inverters start/stop dry contact. Otherwise, the controller may be damaged."? None of my inverters have a...