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Yes, I’ve considered this several times. If this 248 watts is true with my setup, then there’s nothing else like it, American or Chinese made. I’m sure I could swap the plastic pelton for something more durable. Just so everyone knows, it’s not that I’m trying to go cheap. I called Langston...

I only have 77’ worth of drop at my site. A comment was posted that the item I’m looking at only had data on its chart of a maximum of 45’. I corrected that comment by commenting that the data was in meters. Maximum head shown is 45 meters. 45 meters is equivalent to 148’

Forgive me for my ignorance. When our batteries discharge, it switches to give us electricity from the grid. I guess I assumed that it meant grid tied. We do not send electricity back to the grid by no means.

It’s currently rainy/fog season. 8am and this is what it looks like:

I’ll try to answer the best I can. Panels are actually facing 135* (Southeast) No shading at the house I start getting a charge around 6am. It ramps up pretty quick. Inclination of the panels are approx 20-25%. Temperature around sunrise is 60ish degrees F. Only warms up to 75 degrees all...

So, I’ve had my system up and running for 9-10 months. I live on the side of a mountain and started researching hydro and wind turbines lately to supplement the system, especially at night. I reached out to the company that I purchased the system from and he doesn’t recommend supplementing...

Latitude - I’m at 12 deg 57 min N

I’ll contact the manufacturer about this comment, but it may perhaps be able to run on 48v. I’m assuming by the pattern that it’ll produce more than the 24v 200 watts.

So, an 80A 48Vcharge controller with 5,000 watts capacity should do just fine?

My objective is to have available energy. Power goes out often and sometimes for days. At the end of the day, if I want to disconnect from the grid, I have that option. But for now, I’d like to have the grid as backup.

I sent a good day of solar generation. On complete sunny days, we’ll charge to 99% on the batteries. By next morning, we discharge down to about 40-45%. The batteries will fully charge again by 1pm, then by 3pm, we’re making very little on solar. The reason for the additional panels and...

Yes, I listed the 24v to 56v step up converter above in my posting. Wouldn’t an MPPT serve as the same purpose as the PWM?

Call me whatever you’d like, but I need some clarification. Back in September of this past year, we installed a grid tied system to our home. However, I’ve been looking into other alternative ways to generate electricity to store to those unfavorable days. I’ve checked wind and hydro, but it...

45 meters, 148’

Very nice. I may have to wait until then. I spoke them before. They seem to be very knowledgeable. Their product and company are out of Greece. Seems like lots of renewable projects in that part of the world

So, I reached out to get answers about this low charge rate. The answer I received is tat because my usage is low that it’ll only charge at 15A each battery for a total of 30A with the 2 battery setup that I have right now. This limited low rate charging is not doing good for me at all. I...

This is all in Central America. Anything goes. Only thing that could happen is the neighbor above block that overflow off of his little lake

I’m grid tied. I was using anywhere between 300-320 kWh per month. Truthfully, I like what’s available as far as the hydro equipment. That’s the first thing I researched before switching over to the wind idea. I have a creek with decent water, but the drop in that area that’s on my property...

I’m all installed. 6kw grid tied inverter. 10 530 watt panels. Will add 2 more panels soon to have 12. 2 lifepo4 batteries. Been installed for 1 week. Only switched back to grid once when the batteries didn’t get over 53% charge.

Which system would you recommend? Proton, turgo, etc? Company? Watter buddy, Langston, power spout, etc? I’ve seen the prices, but would like to try one of these systems regardless. During the rainy season, there’s lots more than 11gpm. I’m sure I could turn on several more jets and max...

I’ve been investigating doing supplement hydro to my solar system. Checking into various 48v dc options. Well I visited my brother-in-laws farm. He got 40’ of head with an unlimited amount of water. His electricity needs are low. So, my mind starts working and of course I’m new to the hydro...

I just read the spec sheet. Here’s my current setup: Growatt 6kw Hybrid Inverter (grid tied) 48v battery charge 120/240v output 6,000 watts rated power 5,000 max PV input (2) Lifepo4 125aH batteries 51.2v Max (10) 530 watt panels

Max PV charge current 80A Max PV open circuit 250v

Don’t have vocs on panels.

The max that I’ve seen on a very quick spike has been 4,000 watts. The max on a constant charge has been around 2,600 watts on completely sunny days. Where it usually charges is around 1,500 - 1,800 watts. So, I’m confused again. My current inverter/charge controller has a limitation of...

So, another quote came through and since I hadn’t purchased the Victron setup just yet, wanted to get an opinion. Seems like I get more for less. For approx $600 less, I can get (12) 335 watt panels instead of (8) panels. (8) batteries instead of (4). And it would be a 6kw setup instead of...

Actually the guy gave 3 options. Here are the other 2. The difference is in the battery setup. Another has same 8 batteries, but inferior capacity. The other has only 4 batteries. Seems like all are acid sealed batteries.

Inverter is only 6 months old. Growatt, model number SPF 6000T DVM-MPV The panels are mounted on the roof. I’ll reach out to the guy that sold them to me to give that info

Hope this makes sense. Panels 49.6v. I have 10 of them

For the micro hydro, it’s definitely a possibility for low production. Maybe 300-400 watts max. I have 75’ of drop from 1 site and most likely 100’ from a neighbors site that the overflow flows through my property. Either way, I’d have to invest quite a bit to build a retention and whatever...