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Less than a year, and never used it, powered it up once and that was it, otherwise just sat in the shed. correction: a little over a year

I bought it brand new from USA MPP from ebay last year, was never able to get the rest of the stuff I need. just sat in my shed. Would like to get something back for it. $400 plus shipping, or pick it up if you are in South Florida.

No worries, let me try and explain better. the input for the grid back-up into the device, is that or can that be the same is the 110VAC load ouput? if so, does it matter that part of that circuit has half of a 220 appliance on it?

So it is going into my house, and I have a few 220 loads, AC, Oven, etc... but for the time being can I just plug load side into the house 110-120VAC so that at least some of those are powered by solar? Or do the grid-tie and loads have to be separate?

I wasn't able to find in search, but I have 01- LV 2424, that was made for US 110VAC, I know it can be used paired with another for split phase power. My question is can I use just one of these, plug it into the house but turn off the back-feed mode and have the house take from the panels during...

That might actually work, the area I am looking at putting the panels are "permanently" parked trailers being used as rooms attached to the warehouse. My cousin is the owner and has a Tesla, I've run the idea already by him about putting a charging station at work. The face southwest and get a...

I was thinking a grid-tie might be the easiest, it should have the builtin protection that if there's not enough going in then output would stop to charger.

Mine can accept DC to DC fast charging, you are correct at around 400V, but to get a set up to work via solar would require more surface area than I have available. I am hoping to get 220V at low amps, 8-13A.

Thank you!

Whatever I can get, I know I'm going to need at least 5 panels to make any sort of dent in the charging. But my car is a PHEV not a full on EV so the battery is smaller, just thinking 6 large panels wired in series to whatever I need.

I'm looking to set up a simple solar charging station at work, but I don't need a full on system, backup batteries, grid-tie or anything like that. Just hey if it's sunny out I can charge my car, 220 would be great but 110 will work. Just want Solar panels, whatever in between and then an...

I grew up in Southeast Florida but also lived in some other states. Humidity makes everything suck, in Louisiana and Alabama you don't have the ocean breezes you get in South FL, so even more humidity with no wind, you have trouble breathing. But even worse was the winter, 35 degrees with 100%...

So updates from my other posts to this setup, I've added a BMS and figured out how to reset it, also added a 200A relay, and that is working beautifully. But the next morning when the panels recharge the battery I find the BMS again in a fault/protect state, it does not automatically rest. I...

I am too, if distance is a factor, I'm in South Florida

Following along, as well. I was born there and still have some family there. I read about them allowing microgrids for communities and glad they are allowing it. I was just there last Thanksgiving, and now hearing about the earthquakes, man that's rough. I have a small solar generator working on...