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A recent firmware update broke/disabled your closed loop communication with your Daly BMS? And Lux is telling you to use "open loop" voltage settings for now?

DISREGARD. It appears the PV Array must be 120vdc minimum on the EG4 3000 EHV-48. You can't do them in a 2s configuration.

Even just one large panel, put over the top and or sides in the direction of the sun, a few inches away from the box should shade it quite a bit. I've got solar screens on my windows (just mesh, not panels) and they made a huge difference in my air conditioning load after I put them on. My...

That's a 5 amp version.. so it only outputs 5 amps at whatever voltage you have it outputting.. so 24v @ 5 amps = 120 watts.

Only one we know of so far is ugly as sin. Looks like it came out of the 1980's. Or maybe an old internal computer cd-rom drive with a heatsink attached on the end of it.

Speaking of the GTIL2's.. has anybody seen this weird one, first time I saw it was today while looking at the GTIL and GTIL2's on amazon. Tumo-Int 4000w with limiter.

... for gas cans and shunt wires to munch on.

You want t-class fuses or very high AIC breakers on each of the batteries so they don't short into each other on failure. You want one larger t-class fuse or very high AIC breaker exiting the combined battery bus bar to the rest of the system to prevent the batteries from dumping high amperage...

I'm sure somebody that likes math could try to figure it out. :cry:

I don't want that one, that's not the top of the 48v lineup. I'm cheap, but I'm greedy.

Pricey, but has the inputs you want.

In the video he did say he was waiting for it to sync to the grid when he turned the air conditioner on.

Seems like it would end up being some sort of awful tunnel.

That doesn't seem like something the permit office / county would be concerning themselves with. If you violate a term on your mortgage, that's a civil matter between you and them.

Smart butt answer.. Adding another solar charge controller changes nothing, unless you have some panels to go with them. ;)

Here is another expensive one for you. Big expensive Victron 450v If Midnite solar ever releases these, they would fit the bill: Midnite Solar 600v

We're allowed to use Schedule 80 PVC instead of EMT attached to the outside of the building? I thought we could only use PVC for the elbow or a foot or so up from the ground before we have to convert to EMT? Is it because it's brick?

I recently aquired a few hundred scrapped GAF solar shingles. Unfortunately, they did not have the covers that go over the wiring. Do any of you guys work for / own a roofing company that could sell me some covers? I can make something to cover the wiring myself (plan to use them on ground...

I imagine they are simply production limited based on some part(s) needed from China.

Yikes, guess they charged you upfront then.

Wow, I hadn't really read the chit-chat section much before. I never thought I would appreciate the moderators as much as I do now. They do some real quality work around here and we should thank them.

I have no experience with that inverter, but converting your funny money to my American money :p shows me that it's not a terribly expensive inverter for the wattage output. Compared to say a Victron Multiplus 3000va, it's about 1/2 to 1/3 the price. The Victron does add an AC charger as well...

@tacomaguy20 Also, if the main thing you are interested in is reducing the peak demand, and you use an offgrid inverter.. don't even bother with solar. Just charge the batteries of the offgrid inverter from the grid, it will save you a ton compared to legally installing solar on your roof...

What about one of these if you only wanted 100amps? The Midnite Solar-MNEDC100 ?

How low does it let you set it? I'm guessing a growatt? :ROFLMAO:

Walmart isn't known for paying the big bucks.

If you are using a single 12v AGM battery, there are plenty of compatible 110vac chargers. Pretty much every battery charger in the last 20 years should have an AGM setting. But yes, if they aren't getting enough electricity from the sun, you must charge them with electricity from somewhere else.

I'm glad to hear you are considering it. I understand your position with limited inventory available. Normally price would creep up until supply meets demand, but I understand leaving money on the table to not seem greedy to your existing customers. You are one of the only vendors with a UL...

It's funny that we live in times where you could actually stand to profit off the sale of used power tools. You could quite literally end up making more in profit than you paid for them originally.:p

Would be handy if testing a bunch of panels. Kind of a unitasker though if you don't have a bunch of panels to test. Exactly the kind of tool I would buy because it's neat, and find reasons to use it on my panels I already own.

Are there any factors we might be missing when comparing ICE vs EV that might necessitate higher taxes on ICE? Maybe somebody can come up with a list of how the two types of vehicles might affect things locally/statewide. :rolleyes: I'll start.. EV fires are harder to put out. Tax them more...

I'll take my chances, sign me up!

We wouldn't necessarily need such large inverters if the rules for backfeeding and installing a small system with batteries were loosened up a bit. Even a small GTIL and 1000watts of panels would help tremendously if nearly every house had one. That would cover most of their load during non...

The SCC is Solar Charge Controller. It might be built into your 3000w inverter. What is the inverter make/model?

How long have you been hanging onto that bad boy?

Not a problem really, just leave it submerged in the water. :ROFLMAO:

My wording was not precise enough, you require a permit to both install and replace one. :cry:

Can you give us the model number of the mppt controllers? Perhaps they have limited charging amperage and you have reached the charging limit on both of them, hence the same max output to the batteries.

It doesn't help when reasonable people disagree on talking point issues like guns/abortion/lbgtqia/etc.. and then completely shut down all discussion on that and everything else with zero compromise ever. If we take hard moral / religion driven for and against stances on things, reasonableness...

I think they have to do something about it now that they know. They can't just pretend it didn't happen. If it happened again, and somebody was hurt, through no negligence of their own, it wouldn't look good if a record of them knowing about it can be easily found online. EDIT: Just posting...

How does split phase electrical billing work? The way my house is currently wired up, many of the bedrooms, full of 24/7 computer loads are all on one leg. They use a significant amount of electricity constantly, roughly 1200 watts all day every day and that leg as a result always has 1000...

Correct, at least with a single unit. When it loses external spit phase, it converts over to a single leg of 120v and supplies it to both legs downstream. 240v devices simply stop working (no damage or anything supposedly) and 120v devices are happy as can be.

The manufacturer was already on in this thread and confirmed the 30watts per hour per battery number. They said their battery has a better BMS than FET based BMS's and the price you pay for that kind of quality (aside from 3x the money) is 30 watts idle loss when powered on per battery. She...

Can any CT controlled "zero exporting" inverter go fast enough to never momentarily throw some into the grid? It would be nice if it were configurable as to how much it always pulls from the grid in the software, but I imagine that's up to the actual CT and it's particular electrical...

I always tell everybody, every watt of electricity you use is a watt of heat. If the area where the watt of heat is added were 100% airtight, the fan would help for a bit to "distribute" the heat evenly around the hot box instead of letting it sit on one hot component. The battery is probably...

I was going to say, neah, don't need it.. but now that you mention they let you do all those nifty things, I kind of want it.

When God closes a door.. he opens a window.

Can the BMS protect the cells from itself? I'm assuming it's what finally drained the cells the rest of the way down.

I was kind of figuring as much. I've been thinking of extending my fence all the way up to the front of my house foundation anyway.

My state, county and city are all Republican, and have been for like the last 30+ years. Hasn't changed anything for the better in regards to permits and such. Not saying it couldn't be worse if they were all Democrat controlled.. can't say, as they haven't been for 30+ years. :ROFLMAO:

Are you saying your cabling from your negative battery bus bar to your inverter is 12" shorter than the cabling going from positive battery bus bar to the inverter? That's fine.. those don't need to be equal length. What should be equal length is the total cable circuit path positive/negative...

Exactly. You have to come out of your bunker at some point. Good luck keeping your guard up, and all your loved ones guards up as well, 24/7. Criminals / ne'er do wells always have the advantage.. they don't have to do anything productive with their time (usually) and generally have the...

Use a UL1741 listed off grid inverter, with some lead acid batteries, even 4-8 AGM lead starter batteries could probably run the AC unit. You should be able to have a regular electrician install with absolutely no power utility related inspections.

Here you go .. even better.. the SRNE ASP48100U200-H. Has just two MPPT controllers, 22Amps. Read about it here. Not on that California list yet, but some of their other inverters are.. so it might show up eventually.

Good question. 1500 cycles is still close to 4-5 years at once a day though.

Edit.. who has South America for Deye? Deye themselves, or Sol-Ark?

Use higher gauge cable between each battery, or run each battery to a bus bar of sufficient amperage capacity, and run the 4/0 from there to the inverter.

What makes a solar panel a structure? If you mount it to a tub of rocks on the ground, is it a structure? Is a kids sand box a structure? As long as each solar panel isn't connected to the one next to it with anything but some wire, is that good enough for it not to cumulatively become a...

Are you able to completely disconnect the panel wiring, hook up something with known voltage where the panel wiring hooks up at, and measure your voltage at the far end? Make sure it's what it should be with no significant drop. If it's not, test it at various points until you find the...

Sure, not efficient.. but it's not like they are a diaper manufacturer. The things cost nearly $8,000+ each and aren't exactly high volume.

If history is anything to go by, everyone won't agree on it. The meanest, most violent, most undeserving ones will likely seize power. It's likely to get worse, instead of better. You and I, Biasjo, we will likely not survive. All because of what? Taxes being used for things we don't like...

Looks like it has been discussed in some depth on this very forum.. Copper pipe for bus bar!

Unless Deye forces the bad supplier to take them back and to refund you, the bad supplier doing something of that sort seems unlikely.

10-20 (for voltage sag) 12vdc lead acid batteries and you are set. :poop:

Sure, in relation to the suicide cord. Is a 10awg insulated solar ground wire fine if using 10awg insulated solar cables? You don't need to run bare 6awg do you, for safety?

Assuming all the devices you are currently running on that breaker box are 120v and don't need 240v, then it shouldn't be a problem to switch to 240v later. If some of them are currently 240v, you are going to have to split either the 120v circuits off into their own box, or the 240v circuits...

I figured in this case it deserved a mention because it seemed they aren't clear on some of the basics.

From what I've gathered, they wouldn't be damaged until they get into the hands of FedEx or UPS or whatever random USA based freight company gets them. Maybe if you could pick them up at the dock.

The manufacturer also said that the 18.5KW fortress uses a similar amount to the smaller 5kw battery, but as you use less of them compared to the smaller model for a similar capacity, you don't use as much power cumulatively.

Give her / drier their own inverter and battery. Have it set to only power up the drier when there is enough electricity in it for a load. Charge it's batteries however you want. Expensive, yes, hilarious, yes.

Too bad it's in my attic.. I'm not going in there for a while. 🥵 I'm picturing a spot in my cooktop that I could hook these up to also.. right on the infinite switches that go to each burner maybe? How about the dryer / oven? I haven't taken those apart to imagine where a hook up point would...

Do these Sodium Ion batteries still need onboard BMS's with balancers ? Or are they just raw cells like a lead acid?

I can't believe it really only costs a million to buy your way onto the list. It seems like Trump should have saved up enough pennies by now that the price would be considerably higher.

Considering they probably already track miles driven when it gets inspected yearly, seems they could just change the rate based on miles driven. Honestly I'm not sure which version I would prefer, miles or flat rate. Just so long as they don't go to one of those systems that uses GPS and...

I stand corrected. It's a pretty fantastic deal at utility rates around $.15kwh. The numbers just get better and better as utility rates increase. I don't see why they don't deserve 30% of our solar production in addition to their $14.50 base charge per month. I'm being quoted prices around...

I have a nearly identical setup with those breakers. My house hasn't burned down yet. Not to say my crappy FET using, death trap open loop batteries might not get stuck closed upon FET failure and burn things up anyway. At some point you either need to put the batteries in a bunker or just...

Be careful with some of this high powered equipment and that house wiring. Your wiring and breakers are pretty old and probably no where near current codes and safety standards.

Does it actually have the temp sensors? Can you disable them somehow, maybe using the serial port and their software?

What voltage is ridiculously low? What was the voltage specifically? How are your panels hooked up? 11 is an odd number. How many per string, how many strings?

Which people are those?

You would have to have a strict policy enforced by moderators.. if you vote it's off topic, just to be mean to somebody, temporary booting. This would be checked by moderators only when the person flagged as off topic complains about it. If the person that complains about being voted off...

I love cats!

Any type of fixed length pause / delay programming is always risky. Too long and it's stupidly annoying, too short and you get something like what you described. You don't always have something you can rely on to avoid a programmed fixed delay. It happens a bunch when dealing with third party...

That's all that needed to be said. No warranty if you use anything other than your battery or lead acid. You also never answered my idle consumption question. What's the idle consumption?

I think points 2, 3, 4 could still be valid training people to install their own solar systems. The lobbyists would just be different lobbyists, companies would adapt and lobby for the products they are now selling to you directly instead.

That's cool, looks like I need to see a summary of all the proposed changes from the old bill to the new bill. I can't just perform google searches on the old one and provide them to our friend asking questions.

You could put both arrays on the same circuit if you found some solaredge optimizers (which will convert each panel to 40vdc output), even with them facing different directions.. you would also need the key / piece of equipment that tells them to run even without communication with a solaredge...

Personally I think the inverter/ac charger is the better way to go.. longer wire runs.. gives you a separate AC system in the car for backup as well. Just make sure the AC charger and inverter you select for the car combo, don't exceed what the poor car can do. Smaller is better than bigger...

Those are spares, you know how unreliable these pieces of junk are.

That is a great looking chart, what template did you use on draw.io?

What battery / bms is this?

Is this being inspected? Or are you just wanting to do it to code for good feelings and safety concerns?

Your BMS consumption seems pretty reasonable for such a HUGE array. :)

Yeah, the Phoenix line of small inverters only has a few that are UL listed, for land vehicles and marine crafts, UL 458, they are the ones with GFCI outlets on them. Victron Certificate

Can any more fit on top and still close the lid?

Even better than replacing windows with them would to simply be allowed to install them at all, darn HOA ordinances regarding visibility.

I found the app in the Android app store, it was in their amazon description somewhere.. Pow Bank