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And all designed by these same guys that are now Midnite! (Or at least with their fingerprints all over them... ;) )

You've been listening to the wrong people. https://apnews.com/article/biden-united-states-government-us-consumer-product-safety-commission-ap-fact-check-texas-2003dcf8d0bee8ddf45080186b2e0c7b

Wow - Another thread generating 25 pages of comments in about a day. This board is pretty phenomenal. I didn't read everything, but it seems like another "EVs suck" vs "EVs rock" thread. I've had a Tesla Model Y for a bit over a year. I went into it knowing that I didn't know everything, but I...

Our well pump went in when we built our cabin. I was in High School, and I think it was the summer of 1974. So in a few months it will have been operating in that well for 50 years. The pump was from F.E. Meyers in Ohio, who I think still is in the business but were bought out by a bigger...

First I'll say I don't know anything about the 6000xp, and you didn't say how big your battery is. You also didn't say the size (horsepower) of whatever pump you are going to use. That is critical to know the power pulled by the pump. As @Steve_S suggested, getting a soft start Grundfos is...

First, don't sue me if I'm wrong, but... The voltage across the switch is only the voltage difference between the battery positive and the positive side of the capacitor bank. Even if the capacitor is very large (say 100,000 microfarads), they will charge up very quickly. There's some math to...

Touching the grid with a 20' pole should be avoided, at least if the pole is conductive. 😁

Schneider should probably be in your list of Tier One. I have Schneider, but would probably put it lower than Victron, Midnight, and SMA. I don't know anything about Samlex or Fronius.

I'm curious why you bought from that particular web site. I really know nothing about them, so I don't want to say anything bad about them. However, to my knowledge they are not the "root" source of the JK BMS, which I am fairly certain is Hankzor BMS store on Aliexpress. If my understanding...

That power supply says 3.78V. I hope that is wrong.

I have the much smaller (and older) SW4024 Schneider inverter/charger, also in an off-grid setup with a generator. The set of bypass breakers in my system are meant to be able to connect the generator to the loads and bypass the inverter as @400bird says. However, one of the most important...

Was it Robin Gudgel or Bob Godgel? i certainly hope they are still in the game. Legends in this business, and from everything I've seen they are some of the straightest shooters that ever played the game!

I really think that when someone DIY wants to put together a system using modular components (e.g., Victron), they should know what they are buying and how it all goes together before they buy it. It shouldn't be the responsibility of the seller (Current Connected for example) to provide that...

The Lynx Distributor is an absolutely awesome pair of 1000A bus bars. With the built-in fuse holders, it's hard to match with non-Victron choices. As @Kiwi2000 pointed out, you can hack a Lynx Power In (which is cheaper than the distributor) to be essentially like the Lynx Distributor. The...

I'm curious, where (approximately) in SW Colorado are you? My cabin is also in SW CO.