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Rinnai is good, kind of the Victron of on demand water heating. I’ve installed many Rinnai water heaters with few problems. In fact the only issue I can think of was one developed a bee hive over a summer of no use. They would have the water heater you need with the reliability you want. 3gpm...

Cool first project. It reminds me of a mobile chicken coop, except the part where you get electricity instead of eggs and fertilizer. Yummy.

The reality is that people want this: with the power consumption of this: Good luck.

All of my Victron trash is working great: (temporary wiring)

Good morning @skoobus, My personal experience is that what you’re talking about works within reason even though the general consensus is no. I have a 110v/propane 6 gallon water heater with a 1500 watt element(it pulls between 1400-1600w depending on water temperature). It heats a cold tank...

Good morning Dave, I recently finished my diy install using the DC4812VRF. It's only been a week so i have little test data to go on, but from what i've seen so far it's looking promising. I'm going to start a thread soon where i'll do power consumption vs temperature differential. I haven't...

Is it possible that the boiler t&p valve and boiler limits failed creating a super heated steam explosion event without fire at all? Corked water heaters blow up houses all the time. A water heater recently blew a house to little bits in Plum, Pennsylvania:

Good morning, @Zbugsii. I’m going out on a limb a bit here but I’m curious why they really need individual cell monitoring. Think about it this way if you have an individual cell failure in an SOK battery, the bms shuts the battery down. Then you check if you’re past the rated cycle life...

Jtr, I have a similar/same issue. When my growatt reaches float it trips my generator gfi every time…. I called watts247 and the suggested fix was disconnect the ground wire. That didn’t fix it. I didn’t see this as an issue because my generator isn’t automated and float is where you stop...

This is a photo of my actual growatt manual.

This was my solution. I’ll post actual power consumption when it’s up and running. But if my maths are right we’re looking at 500-550 watt draw for 12000btuh.

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I have a cheap lp gas "inverter" generator which charged fine. My Growatt is the 48v version. This test run was limited to 40a on the Growatt. No faults were displayed while charging which indicates to me that the power requirements were met. The voltage stayed between 118-120v and Hz stayed...

Mini split head units have poor filtration in the form of screens that require weekly cleaning. This photo should be enlightening:

Good after noon, I'm currently running a 12,000 btu mini split in a 35' bus. It is 103F outside with humidity of 16% and about 77F inside. I would not expect this to work at all w/o window coverings and a fan, especially if i were to try to cool it down mid day in full sun. In other words of you...

Pex, cold expansion rated or not shouldn’t burst under freeze conditions, properly installed. Your rheem is freeze protected unless there is a loss of power and or fuel. Edit: we have an example of known abuse/neglect/oops.. and it still works. Thanks! @WYtreasure

Yes it will work. I have a cheapo champion “inverter” genie and it has worked for some time. Just remember if your bity little generator won’t do it with your pass through maxed out or whatever, just reduce your charging amps with setting 2 until you’re not tripping the generator. I’ll second...

Congrats on the free, new to you cells! All of them having the same resting voltage above 2.5 volts is a good sign. Will has a few battery testers listed here on his website. He lists a cheap adjustable power supply under tools as well. When my cells arrive I will use this top balance tutorial...

Your conclusions look good with the exception of the 9000btuh units heating demand. If you look at the specks on the above 9000btuh senville unit it states a 200 watt increase in demand while heating, something to note for 24/7 usage calculations. the 12,000btuh unit doesn't. This is very...

It looks like you’re on a right track. Just remember 220/230v single phase is different than split phase 240v. I’m thinking this euro model growatt would do it: Check this out. I was running a 48v 12k btu mini split (no other loads) on 8 srm-24 interstate batteries (4s2p) (day use only) with...

If it is this may be a consideration: https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-support-search-content?contentId=39712#:~:text=Hydrogen%20gas%20can%20be%20produced,GAS%20IS%20EXTREMELY%20FLAMMABLE!! Yes electric water heating elements do produce hydrogen..

uni-strut would bridge the gap and would allow easy installation. Then it would just be a matter of bolting everything down. Heres a few examples:

You're on the right track. Just don't forget that the "T&P relief valve" has to be correctly rated for the heating element and that it is properly discharged to the exterior. The discharge line can ONLY run down hill from the T&P, reason being is that a trap/water setting in the line could...