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To be fair to Signature Solar?? What? You might want to go back and re-read all of the nonsense the Signature Solar created. "Fair" would be making a public apology for the way they treated a paying customer. Yeah, I didn't read that in this thread. "Fair" would be making James an...

Well, this has been a long read as I've read the entire thread from #1 to #779. I'm not young. I have been working with electrical power equipment, distributors and manufactures longer than many of you have been alive, since the mid 70's. That doesn't mean I know everything, but I have a...

Im a programmer. Newer cars make extensive use of canbus and similar networks. When they work, they are great. When not they can be a pia. Unless you have the software and tools to reflash modules, there is not much you can replace, controls wise. Does my battery bms need to be able to...

I live in the very Red state of Indiana. I live in the country. In my county we are supposed to get a variance to install a ground mount. That's a minimum $500 fee and a required public meeting. No joke. The installation must be approved by a licensed electrician. Good luck with a diy and...

Just replace the word "tariff" with what it actually is; a "tax" collected by the US government.

The stock market is in correction territory right now and I suspect we will be in a true recession sometime early next year. Not looking forward to another one! Check out what happened with Google this week. Tesla's in the dumper as well (but Elon opened his mouth again!) . Amazon lost a...

I live in Northern, Indiana outside of Fort Wayne in a township (not in a city). I suspect any state that has a significant Amish population, like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, will likely never have a requirement to connect to the grid. So once again, the flyover states win! :cool...

Good thing I don't have a Priest! Ha ha...... “I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.” ― WC Fields

The problem is that the inverters were supposedly set to function in parallel. The comm cable was incorrect and the inverter/s malfunctioned. This shouldn't be possible since if the cables were incorrect, they should not have allowed operation if they were set to parallel mode. This is really...

If we are going to talk about EMP hardening, we might as well talk about Nuclear bomb hardening. When was the last time an EMP was set off over a US territory. Nuclear Bomb? Because I cant recall the dates. We should also talk about system survival strategies. What if I buy 4 SRNE ASP 10k...

What you need to do is find a Ron Popeil Chopomatic. The original! And yes, I remember those adds! And dont forget the Bassomatic! Courtesy of SNL. And yes, I saw it the first time on SNL when it was originally aired...... Just a few years ago.

I agree. It does seem that the technical problem in this instance has likely been resolved, at the loss of another customer. The BIG problem is that Signature Solar has an ongoing reputation of crappy support and it stretches back years and doesn't seem to be improving. Its not just in...

Are you referring to stuff like this? This appears to be yet another EG4 nightmare. https://diysolarforum.com/threads/flexboss21-gridboss-issue-list.98839/

Good to know. I've heard plenty from James! So James, no need to further explain yourself. I get it. A company is a reflection of its CEO. Hence Signature Solar's abysmal customer service. Its all over this forum. James, I asked you in a prior post, in a different thread, how you...

Will should go retail. Buy a 40 ft container of the ASP units and sell them out of his shop. Then he makes videos of them working for him and they sell. He buys more containers, repeat. He then buys a mountain in Colorado and retires. :cool: I wonder why there is no master distributor of...

EG4 and SS stand on the reputation that they have established. Good and bad. It is, what it is. If this is confusing, you just need to read more posts on this forum.

If SRNE cant produce more than 208 volts in 3 phase, and you also have miners that have issues, Id do the same thing; go back to split phase. That sucks since you will need to do a bunch of rewiring. Ugh...

Put in a dehumidifier. Even 80-85% isnt horrible. Do you have condensing issues in the winter time where water accumulates? Condensation is the killer. I had a house with a damp basement. A dehumidifier kept it under control. Just add more solar. 😄

I use Profinet a lot with Siemens controllers and drives. They can run safety signals across standard Ethernet. Estops, machine coordination, light curtains, and safety switch status (redundant, dual channel), Safe Torque off and safe shutdown for drives can all be run on Ethernet. So...

Are cables from Lowes or Walmart required for this installation? If so, thats odd. 🤪 Get on Amazon and search for Ethernet Crossover Cable and add whatever color you would like. For something thats so old and obsolete, they sure are common. Personally, I have several of them. If the cables...

You know Im right! 😄. I nearly forgot my wifes birthday, but Im up to date on the latest posts on this forum.

Not a good excuse. I buy auto parts all of the time. Ive had Dodge/Chrysler products but have avoided them for years after doing work for them. They were making transmissions that they knew would only last 75k miles or so for the Dodge minivans. They knew why the problem existed and the...

America has decided to attack itself. Why wait for others to do it when we can do it ourselves. 🤪. We declared a trade war and the victim is us. This is like hitting yourself with a hammer. After the first blow, you're supposed to stop. Nope, not us.

It probably wasnt important. If it was you'll find out soon! 😄

Everyone does stupid things from time to time. You gave them a big chunk of cash. They should be willing to help you out regardless.

Why avoid permits... In my county in Indiana they are stuck in the dark ages. I have almost 3 acres and my property is zoned A1, Ag. In order to put up solar panels I need to pay $500 and have a scheduled public hearing at the county office, so people can contest my request to put up solar...

Some of our backgrounds are very similar. I was about 10 when I started oxy acetylene welding. My Dad was a shop teacher. Welding, machine shop, woodshop. So on the weekends when he had to grade papers and do misc work in the shop, I learned to weld, machine stuff, woodwork, etc. It was...

FWIW, I would never put batteries or inverters outside in the weather. Your inverter cost looks to be about 2x just to be Nema 3X. I would put everything inside a garage, outbuilding, closet, etc. I work on low voltage industrial gear all of the time 480-500 VAC and you won't want to be...

At best. If one 480 volt line crosses an open terminal of another phase, you have full voltage across one layer of insulation. I have seen this many times in sloppy control panels. Some are that bad. If a 480 volt Delta secondary transformer has a fault to ground. The two other phases...

Might want to look at this https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-chinas-dependence-on-u-s-trade/#:~:text=For%20decades%2C%20the%20United%20States,More%20on%20the%20Voronoi%20App China to US exports are about 15% of their total exports. While we are heavily dependent on China. This is a...

Looks like my house when I bought it. The guy thought he knew how to add circuits, he didnt.

I chatted with an Ebay seller who is selling the ASP SRNE and they seem to do a lot of installation business. I get the impression they are actively installing the ASP inverters right now. I think this inverter is going to cause other sellers such as Midnite, etc to rethink their pricing...

Jess, EG4 and SS are owned by the same people. Why not yell over to the EG4 guys and ask them who can supply the spare BMS. I know James wants you to "pretend", but most of the people on this list are aware of the EG4 / SS relationship. So you sound pretty silly.

I agree with your statement in general. However if they are only sliding in boards and attaching heatsinks, you can't expect them to be fixing firmware issues. The core support will always be back in China since that is where the design, manufacturing and test engineers will be. Partially...

If you put a fan off to your side you can blow most of the fumes away. Drinking milk after welding galvanized helps avoid any side effects. But of course its best to avoid the fumes entirely. You can also grind the galvanizing back or dip the ends in acid to get rid of the zinc. Galvanized...

To avoid you extra stress, I volunteer to take receipt of your excess inverters. 😄

You have really work to get Ethernet not to work even in an industrial environment. That said, they probably arent using Ethernet on these Ethernet cables.

Less than a 1/2 second after I am shocked, I can be more than 4 inches away. ?. Speaking from experience.

I have two Klein CL800 clamp meters. One is in my bag for customers, the other one stays home. About 6 months ago I was at a customer site and they had just received 6 very special potentiometers that are used to detect the dancer arm position for a wire payoff machine. The pots cost about...

If you put them in a watertight plastic box and use cable glands, you can put desiccant packets in the boxes before you seal them up to keep the interior dry. Put the box penetrations on the bottom and screw the box to a wall or post. I have several of the indoor Feit units running in...

Right, you cant conduct business, and stay in business, if the costs and expenses are unknown.

The solution is obvious. Jess needs to take over SS, and fire the existing management. Show them the door Jess.

THHN wire has two insulation layers. The inner layer is PVC, the outer layer is a thin layer of nylon. The nylon is applied right after the PVC on a wire insulation line. They nylon is very abrasion resistant and slippery, which is ideal for pulling through conduit! :) I have done a lot...

Careful, this is rocket science to some folks. Its just supposed to work regardless of what they do. These same folks complain when they run out of gas after the low fuel light goes on.

I dont buy your arguments. If you connected a router to your laptop with a crossover cable and your laptop caught on fire, you'd say thats unacceptable. This is a design or firmware problem. EG Jarret doesnt say whats going on with the sync signals. I dont know the solution. But if they...

If its actually consuming 500 watts you will notice it getting hot. It has no other way to absorb power. 500 watts is a lot. Consider a 500 watt heat lamp. The heat is very noticeable. If its not working like a space heater, the energy is going elsewhere.

Do you have a stick welder or wire welder? Or know someone who does? If you run a pipe the width of your framework and tie the pipe to the channel arms, the arms will be tied together. When one goes up, the others will go up. This is called a torque tube. It prevents twist. Id probably use...

Yeah, that doesnt work. The only way to do it mechanically is to put down 6 mil plastic, then inches of rock. Preferably crushed. Then after a few years the rock will collect dirt and stuff will start to grow again. Or you can spray generic roundup 2-3 times per year and forget about it...

Mid 50's - just a kid. :) No pain, no gain. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger... (All the crap we were told to ignore) blah blah blah. ;) Just finished reviewing my Medicare coverage! :cool:

150 kwhr per year, or less than $30/yr in the midwest. Thats not a lot. Drive thru Wendy's twice and Im over that. 😁

This idea is terrible. Sailor here. Electric is ok as an aux with sails. But if you want to do more than a planned circuit route of limited range this idea is doomed. Sailboats converted to electric aux power lose value. You dont have sails. Say you have a range if 50 miles. You leave...

Ive considered goats. But I had to take care of some and then realized that they will chew on everything! Plastic conduit..... Snack time!

Have you shipped Fedex recently? Or worse, USPS? Im pretty sure DHL is not the worst.

Oops!

So Megarevo made the the EG4 6500EX inverters? They seem to have a bad reputation from what I have read. Did the same company make the EG4 6000? I'm not sure it is a good idea for a distributor to be slapping their own label on an OEM inverter unless they are actually altering it. Does...

So about $1240 US. Nice! :)

I'm just an outsider, with several cousins in Texas and it appears that the power grid in Texas is very poorly managed. What can your average Texan do to improve the power situation? How much crap are Texan's willing to put up with !?!? You guys still have elections, right? Its not like...

I have zero inside info. But a lot of people do. I'm sure a lot of people made a killing this last week. But it wasn't me. Most of our money is in Fidelity SPAXX or SPRXX. I was hoping to not have to stay in these funds for long, but with the 90 day suspension of some tariffs, that means...

If you put it in your 6" duct, something like this can work. I like it that it can be attached and not floating around in a duct or box. Many companies make these so look around...

@OffGridForGood. ...Are you having a Puerto Rico kind of day?

What load do you have on a-b that is 0.70 power factor? Thats is really low.

I seriously thought about putting a panel on the roof. But my wife thought I was nuts ( its possible ). I admit, it might detract from the car, plus they would likely turn me away at the automatic car wash. 😃 Truth is, if I drive the car 45 minutes per day, the alternator keeps the battery...

My point is that you cant plan out 20+ years with any kind of certainty. A couple years ago I had to make a decision regarding an eye surgery. The retinal eye surgery was invasive and risky. As part of my decision making, I asked my doctor if this surgery would allow my eye to function for...

Why cant that be changed by the enduser? What if Markus hits the lottery and retires?

Capitalism can be pretty brutal. If you do a price/ demand curve for a product. You want to maximize profit while minimizing expenses. Thats just how it works. This has nothing to do with what's right or wrong. Its financial analysis.

Thats what I found out. The guys I was working with in China couldnt understand each other. At all. I noticed it. And it was causing issues. They ended up speaking in English to each other, which was helpful for us but a bit difficult for them. There are at least 8 variations/dialects of...

I think the root cause of all of this is ignorance. The inspectors dont know the codes regarding solar. Since they cant do their job they shift the responsibility//liability to the licensed electricians. The planning commission and permit police/inspectors here dont want to have to learn the...

Crickets!

Sure ... you have convinced me. :ROFLMAO: What was I thinking spraying roundup on weeds that don't really exist. Now to convince all of the farmers in the US that Roundup is totally unnecessary and we don't need to spray those weeds because they don't really exist. Tell them that you can...

Excellent! :-)

OK, then I will of course have to try it! Thanks. :) >>>Mine arrived i under two weeks to Canada. So perhaps I will have them in a week or so. Thanks!

SRNE will ship them from Houston for $1020 plus shipping as well?

I'm shopping for inverters and so far this SRNE 10KW is at the top of my list. What is the best way to obtain this unit? Via Sungold, PowMR or direct? I really don't care about the color or cosmetics. Its crazy that this unit is 10KW for about $1500 while the Lux Power unit is going for...

Tilting it up would definitely lessen the impact. I would be tempted to add some aluminum channel across the top edge to keep it from getting dented up if you are in a heavy hail area. However the problem with tilting it way up is that around here, high winds often occur just before hail...

True, but there is a lot of land that is not practical to live on as Eggo pointed out. Water is a huge issue out west. Austin, Tx housing is very expensive because you need access to water. There is a lot of land without water access. I think parking lots have a lot of PV potential. Plus in...

Yeah, but when they realize that they went no where on their Peloton bike, they will be exhausted and give up. :)

Ive purchased 3 of those hydraulic crimpers. They all seem to be made by the same company. Harbor Freight, Amazon, etc.

I had to read this a few times. You have an inverter thats putting AC on your PV DC lines? Ive noticed this mentioned a few times on this forum. Is that specific to certain EG4 models? Is that 60 hz AC or is it a high freq AC. High freq AC can stress insulators to the point of failure...

If you add an ecoworthy balancer for $55, this solution is about the same cost as 4- $170 100ah batteries plus a balancer.

Wifi goes right through the generic gray PVC boxes. Feit Electric sells wifi connected smart plugs that are sold as outdoor units. Costco sells them amongst others. They are cheap but reliable. I have one I use inside my shop to turn on/off my air compressor via a contactor. The compressor...

What would SS do without this forum to help them learn how to sell solar stuff. Wait, are they learning?

It would be nice if 4 gauge fit. But otherwise why would you use 4 gauge ? 6 gauge should be plenty !?

Did James give them to you for free? Why are you installing 3kw inverters? How do you use the?

I have a 33 ft sailboat at a marina. Birds are a big problem. A solution I have been using for years are Dvd disks, suspended from ball bearing fishing swivels. A lead 3/4 or 1 oz weight holds it down. I take a dvd, punch a hole in one edge, rotate 180, punch another hole. Both about 1/8"...

Its the first step towards being an influencer! That video appears to be a blipvert! If you remember Max Headroom, you know what Im talking about. 😄

My feelings exactly. If I pay it off in 20 years, then what is the point? Stick the money in a few stock market index funds and you would be further ahead. A 7.2% return for 10 years is a 100% return on investment (Rule of 72) . My plan is to go with used solar panels. I can get them...

Please supply your sources. I follow this stuff closely and have heard that Chinese exports to the US has been about 15% for years. People in the US tend to think that the world revolves around the US. It doesn't. The general consensus in the financial markets is that the tariffs will fail...

Do you have a Menards near you? Their wire prices are better, I believe, plus you can get 11% back which helps. Copper is near $5/lb. I bought several hundred feet of #2 copper thhn years ago for $55. I had a hard time carrying it. Seemed like a lot at the time! Ha ha. Plus I kept a bunch...