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Must suck to be team blue. >humor<

Cool cabin. From what I can see and your description: I wouldn't be concerned about the ground in the combiner box. If you are happy with a 1.2kw MAX, disregard the following. If you ever intend on a combined load above that... The 6ga. wire on the batteries needs to go away posthaste. That...

100% The days of PoCos paying for your PV system are rapidly drawing to a close. Someone has to pay for the infrastructure and it's maintenance.

ROI $ is not as clear cut as a simple wattage calculation for me. As the majority of my winds are after sundown, lessening cycle depth plays some part on battery life. I don't have any with/without wind assistance longevity data, but I know it helps some. As heat is the enemy of electronics...

While CA loves to pretend to be green, many jurisdictions still consider solar panels an eyesore and prohibit them being visible from the street, while all new homes are required to have them. I laugh when I see the huge tracts of new homes in Fontana with north facing panels for these reasons.

When your bug out vehicle has a liftgate.

10M cells to create 1kwh (napkin numbers).

No. I was the one behind that one wanting him to get out of my way.;)

Check out this link VOLTAGE DIVIDER when you have a chance. Once you have the resistance values calculated, the divider will send the necessary 3v to the ssr once the pma output reaches "X". You could also use a variable resistor in place of r1 to tweak the actual cut in.

I suppose it is worth recording history in the aftermath of an unsalvagable situation. How we got here is a long road.

Sensible. Current inverter could only output 50 amps even if voltage drops to 100v. Would you concur, Dr. Matt?

I resurrected this thread for further discussion.

We do all the things.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic, but I had a good life anyway.

F**king genius! That employee adapts and overcomes!!

I thought that was obvious.

May I introduce you to the 1963 Oldsmobile with the variable pitch torque converter? Said technology is now available in turbos and, not surprisingly, why modern diesels can pass emissions.

The kind of stories where every tree and piece of wooden furniture within miles were burned for warmth?

It is ironic that we booted King George but still use his foot to measure things.

This was my first one. It was a 5 blade turbine (supposedly) rated for 1200 watts. After weeks of wind tunnel testing, my engineering team devised this tail extension. It helped so much that the 16 ga. wiring in the slipring had a meltdown during a windstorm.:cool:

You have motivated me to message them. I looked at other pics there. Seem to be 31 units per pallet. So min 620 panels. I don't have that much hustle left in me. ?

sounds like my kind of luck.

Yessir. Exactly.

I saw 256w in 30-50 mph gusts.

That is a curious take on the subject. Why would you chose to concentrate on the 30 watt photo (NOT photos) when the data is there? Some days there is absolutely zero output. Would you like to see the one from two days ago where it produced 1800 wh?

they are certainly having trouble understanding why their models are so far from reality. Fluid dynamics can't be accurately predicted in a fish tank. Let alone globally.

This is on point. It is HIGHLY likely (especially in today's economic environment) that your panel manufacturer will not exist in 2047. I recently did an 8Kw panel upgrade with used panels for around 25% of new panels and producing around 70% of rated power. It keeps my charge controllers...

I am dumbfounded by your 1984 newspeak? The ONLY reason conservatives point out that Obama built and used those cages, is because the MSM called Trump EVIL for years for using them. There is no hope...

Each X number is twice the energy of the previous. In scientific terms X-47 is a butt-load.

Rabbit hole... Former MI "Monkeywerks" reports daily on cyber attacks. Thousands every day originating mostly in Chyna.

You always want to keep the breaker sized lower than the lowest amperage point of the system. In your case, lower than the wire and the switch. 100 amps should be good for that inverter and (upgraded) wire. If the DC switch is not rated for that, change it.

I see. You are @ 75 degrees East but 90 degrees South. Southerly tilt would help immensely.

Well, things just got more interesting. USAF just shot down another something. Maybe it was Mork from Ork. Maybe solar payback recalculations are in order. Just add some potasium iodide to your caramel latte. It will all be fine.

That is part of a larger conversation best had in the Chit-Chat zone. But I do believe we are beginning the 4th turning of an ~80-100 yr. cycle.

Watts are King. This is often even confusing to licensed electricians.

1000v per mm to complete a circuit on your open breaker. How far apart are the contacts inside there? 🤔

*EDIT: will work.

The two I drive past several times per week are both on gated properties. One of these days I'll catch someone at the gate and ask.

Wonder if it intends some kind of antifreeze solution to a heat exchanger, of the panels freeze on winter nights.

Another good point. My panels are solid mounted at 18.4 degrees at 34 N. intentionally to maximize summer output during months of triple digit temps. I may be off-grid but I will not sweat in bed.

Future potato harvest:

Considering the trillions of borrowed tax dollars alloted to this farce I would say I am paying them.?

I recently installed a similar system for a customer. Although it is a 24V 4Kw Sungold and running a 3/4 horse deep well pump. The system has 2Kw of dedicated panels and two 12V Napa marine SLA. The little batteries provide inrush and then the solar takes over. They can pump water to their...

Who knew? It's a thing.

I was hoping to see an emerging DIYer...

Neighbor was quoted an $80k connection fee by SCE to run 1/4 mile of line up a straight desert road. He went off-grid. I didn't bother to call. Just started slowly building my system. More recently, a new neighbor was quoted a $5k engineering fee to get 'started. He has an existing line and...

Keep digging. You are making and exceedingly excellent hole.

The car lift is a good heavy inductive load. More tests that reflect real world usage are always good.

This is an issue with Growatt. Once the unit shuts down from low voltage, you must provide 24v from another source to re-fire the unit. It WILL NOT charge the batteries or function without this jumpstart. As OzSolar said, you are way under-paneled and under-batteried to run a space heater.

Sure. I would get behind that, once there was a working prototype that produced substantial power. Until then, I would probably build one of these.