Recent content by hightecrebel

Technically it's Muscongus Bay I see from my house. I'm not right up on it, but yeah, not too worried about the snow, but we've had quite the freezing rain/sleet issue the last few years so I'm trying to figure out how to mitigate that along with the salt & wind. Fog and overcast will happen no...

By vertically, you mean legitimately vertical, straight up and down not tilted at all? I hadn't considered that as an option. Going to need to change my wind calcs now and shift my planned mounting spot a bit. Thank you for responding with your experience.

Anyone on here from a "north-eastern" coastal area (Maine, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, etc.)? I'm trying to plan out my system here in mid-coast Maine, but in the various resources I've been using I've found little to no accounting for "coastal effect" weather patterns in the...

How did you insulate your battery box? I'm about to put together a system for my father & stepmother that'll run the garage door openers, but have been trying to figure out what type and how much insulation to use building the box.

That's about what I figured. I'd looked and couldn't find one, but was hopeful it was due to my own ignorance of where to look. I'll probably just rig one of the board types into a case of some kind and write the info in a notebook & on a piece of masking tape on the battery case.

I understand I can't get a capacity test done in that short of a time period. I was referring more to form factor/style with a built-in printer. I don't have a clean-room style workshop or even a "clean" workshop. I'll either be doing tests in my cellar or my shed, neither location being...

ETA: I'm talking form-factor - small, sealed, integrated display/printer - not 'get all the info in a few seconds'. Before the wall of text, here's the question: Any battery capacity/load testers out there like the auto battery ones that are hand-held with an integrated printer? Ok, so I'm...

The battery is pretty cool, but I have nowhere in my house to put it. Maybe if I built a dedicated solar shed, but the cost of a sturdy enough & insulated shed would be more than the batteries & AIO. I'm leaning towards the Ruixu at the moment, but still got a bit of prep work for the house...

I've had issues with my PoCo in the past, but they're always responsive and relatively customer focused. Not perfect, but I've dealt with much, much worse (I'm very thankful I don't deal with PG&E anymore, for one). The swap over from complete solution (generation & distro) to just distributor...

And upon further questioning direct to them, any equipment the manufacturer states is "compliant" with either of those standards on the spec sheet is acceptable unless I go beyond a 1.5 MW system, in which case they want third-party testing and biennial inspections. And as far as going just...

I probably phrased the title poorly, but here goes. I'm looking for resources to learn more about current grid-tie & hybrid options - both equipment types and plans with or without battery backup. Everything I find is either deep in the weeds technical, very shallow overview with "pay us to plan...