Recent content by Clueless Noob

The family and I are still arguing about how much inverter we actually need... My single biggest load is the well pump. But it only runs about 5 minutes total per day, and the odds that it will kick on at exactly the same time as the fridges and freezers is pretty small. So I started thinking...

I'm not concerned about my battery doing a "Richard Hammond crashed an electric supercar and it burned for 3 days" decomposition. But the energy stored in a 5.12 kWh server rack battery is the same energy stored in 1.72 pounds of TNT. Or, as you've observed, almost exactly 1 cubic foot of Class...

Yes. I have. Which is why I'm now curious where the 18+MJ of stored energy goes if the battery is in a fire. It's got to go somewhere. How is it that I am able to be unconcerned about the combustion of LiFePO4 batteries? I'm pretty sure I'd be concerned if 1.72 pounds of TNT had an uncontrolled...

OK Now that I'm not speed reading the manual I downloaded, I see that "maximum charging current" and "maximum utility charging current" are not the same thing. Input safety concerns put to bed. Thank you. How about the output side? I need this to be bulletproof so that the family can use it...

Long time listener, first time caller! I'm planning to build Will's solar hand truck as a backup system for a couple critical loads. I've done my due diligence with the kill-a-watt, and I know it should work. But... The 3000EHV calls for 10 gauge wire in and out with 30A breakers on the AC...