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After a couple of warnings, change their profile pics to a standard red image that says "I don't know how to stay on topic"

This thread turned out to be really cool, it's nice to find others in the same capacity range, and possibly bounce ideas that work for various situations. I find it interesting that the polls are showing about 50% of us are lower than 40Kwh and about 50% of us are higher than 40Kwh. Seems to be...

I think we can all agree that we all want more😅 That's a lot of juice! And another juice box to fill😅

(Updated) -Added the ability to change votes due to the 2 new categories. I could only add 2 more Hope you guys adjust your votes! -Added ability to cast 3 votes due to multiple systems Hope these changes don't skew the results

Flippin 10mm & 1/2 inch wrench always running off🙄

Green energy should be tax exempt in my opinion, but obviously big brother loses in that situation along with the monopolized grid energy companies. They really don't want us to make our own electricity unless we are dumping it into their infrastructure.

Thanks for the input guys. I have a lot better understanding of overpaneling already. My conclusion: *Never exceed the max voltage input of the charge controller *Exceeding max PV input parameters (watts) is fine, but stay away from the max voltage limit, as it will shorten the life of the...

😅Oddly enough the image depicts everything you can do without power. Nothing there uses any power, he's reading a book in the sun. Wine and dining on a beach with a sleeper camper? great beach outfits😅 nice find

I don't know why I'm posting this, other than I'm super excited. I made a goal for myself to solarfy my critical needs and only use $20 supplental grid power. I have not reduced any appliance use, but have become more conscious of conserving power. (turning off things while nor in use) And...

From my understanding, that is precisely how they handle "grid-tied" consumers. They milk us for our investment. Control over everything.

I appreciate all the help and the numbers (albeit a little confusing to me), and concern as all my testing has been with a simple multimeter and my own hand touching and feeling every connection and wire. I still have the cheapo 200amp breaker in between my battery bank and inverter, and when I...

Seems to me you would need at the very least 400-500 watts of panels, and you would always be relying on stored power to provide all the cooking/coffee (300ah, or you could get by with 200ah with staging as supervstech pointed out) hope you camp in a bright sunny area :)

Looks like mine but in my house lol.. If only charge controllers weren't so expensive...

Our president elect has declared he will put huge tariffs on foreign countries, specifically China on day 1 he takes office in January. Prices have been trending downward for LFP. I think due to a flooded market. But will these batteries price skyrocket again, due to tariffs? Or will the...

Thanks for pointing that out :) It was a 24v 4kw. This one https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BGH897Q8?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title Same company I got my 12v 3kw inverter from that performs very well. But the 24v scared me, I felt like it was going to start a fire. It made all my lights...

Thanks everyone! 😁

Well I feel a little ashamed, sorry to have everyone scrambling to get an answer with incomplete specs. I just checked each mppt. Current reads 11:40 on a semi-sunny day. Mppt#1 12.5a@34v Mppt#2 19.5a@32.4v Mppt#3 10.6a@32.7v Mppt#4 23.4a@29.8v

Good to see it's not filled with rechargeable AA batteties :)

One could definitely power a Cpap machine for a bit with 120kwh+👨‍⚕️

I have one of those usb in/out chargers for 20v dewalt, it charges via mini-c so I imagine that would work. Or would my dewalt battery just charge my lifepo?😄 due to higher voltage

I thought for sure you'd be in the 500kwh range😅 I think that's a pretty decent estimation. The problem I'm having up north is the sheer amount of panels needed to keep them babies charged up during winter months

Curious to know what yall rocking battery wise, and whether you are On-Grid Off-Grid Hybrid-On-Off-Grid I'll start. 10.2 Kwh Hybrid-On-Off-Grid😁

Thanks y'all, that clarifies why we should use the fuse holder. I can understand now that the current would just flow through the stud instead of flowing through the fuse in a catastrophic event.. It does make me wonder though, how that little bit of plastic prevents an arc from jumping from the...

I've decided I will be going in the direction of a 1000watt inverter and 40a charge controller, instead of an aio. I may upgrade the inverter in the future, but I have one on hand already now. I may build in a shore power charger/power supply, but that's uncharted territory for me, so that may...

Yall made me realize that the .2 was nothing to brag about😆 Hey now us little guys still hold 44% of the vote😆

Seems like I'm on the right track for temporarily leaving my system. The consensus seems to be that the lifepo4 will be fine storing at 100% soc for a months time. I presume the solar panel array will be fine not feeding anything for this short time frame? (Switching the dc breakers off)

Only if you have your stereo on the right station.

Thank you! I don't know why I was overthinking it, just some square tubing ladder racks and L-brackets should work great. lol I'd need 2 sets of those

Thanks for the feedback😊

Thank you everyone! Always so helpful here! This about sums it up, I got so used to everything just working in unison as a whole. It's easy to forget that I set all this up and should have known to check individual components. Probably about time to go around with a wrench and screwdriver to...

Sorry I guess my spacing for the vertical "bussbar" got deleted upon posting

I suggest building a small outbuilding in the middle of your property to house your battery bank, charge controllers and a couple of nice inverters feeding a switch panel that branches off to each "shop" and house on its own inverter. Maybe a ground mount solar array/wind turbines over this to...

Gotcha, thanks for clarifying :)

Strange indeed. If I were you I'd let it do its thing😅. My setup is not grid-tied and I have no intention to let the powers that be control my investment.

I can imagine a boat or other small space setup working well

Wdym no safety gear... They are wearing hard hats up there, in case anything falls from above

That's about where I'm at during the summer, except now only powering my fridge during the winter. Sounds like I do need more capacity P.s I was just trying to be polite by adressing everyone together as "y'all" I am aware that there our members consists of ladies, gents, and pikachus

Thank you, it really is an awesome feeling after you understand the cost of equipment, or just the patience of learning solar. I used 79.5kwh in 29 days so the bar graph shows my daily consumption. But on closer inspection of my bill, I realize how little I understand about their billing...

Lol, that mobile deployment video you found must've got you thinking. I'm enjoying your brainstorming updates

Thanks yall for the great tips. It does get below 0 here, I am more north of Chicago plus we get that lake effect, in the future I will probably go with a heat pump or direct dc heater sounds interesting. But, for this winter I will just bring the battery inside, maybe throw it in with my house...

Thank you for that, I was totally overlooking that aspect

My original mounting/installation was kind of less than ideal. I was still learning and experimenting, but I will be removing these and installing my new trina 545s in place of these with actual rails and clamps.

This looks like it could work but I don't see if you can use 120v ac in/out I see 30a @ 250v, does that mean I can use up to 60a @ 125v? My reason is to learn how to make myself independent with an isolated system, but have the grid there in the learning process, I suppose weaning myself of...

Looks likes lights from an old automobile, Parts n knobs from old radio/oven/gumball machine/... Probably makes an ever-lasting-gobstopper when you plug it in😃

Sometimes out loud 😄 It was just a friendly informal way of saying you all. I am a North easterner, so not really a common phrase here, but sho 'nuff I have plenty of family over yonder down south. I aint no highfalutin stranger to the slang, don't go getting your britches in a bunch now😄

I have opted to use these, in your link. They should be sufficient, and is what they are designed for. Most people will say go with Bluesea systems (well known/quality company in the fusing world). I opted to use Southbend brand (a company which also has a good track record.) I am wary about...

I just had a thought, maybe I could just swap a cheap lead-acid battery for the winter

I just thought a little more in depth on the fuse holders and realized that the post looks like it is separated from the busbar by a very small bit of plastic.. Maybe that is the reasoning for the holder?

I am hoping for the same that everyone adjusted their selection, I did see the number of votes drop lower under the 40kwh-70kwh category and tick up in the 70kwh-170kwh, so I think a few have. I was worried slightly about the results being slightly skewed because of the late addition, but to be...