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Support by phone, email or online (reddit). No questions asked warranty. A real user manual. Look around to see how many folks on the forum have actually had to use the warranty. Not many. I'm not paid for this endorsement. I'm just a satisfied customer.

Given how Victron uses the MEGA fuses in their diagrams instead of Class T, it would indeed be of interest to see how they fare compared to what you've shown with the MRBF.

My first line of defense is that I'm not entering a transaction with someone unless they have quite a few posts and have been registered for a few months. I've bought/sold stuff on other forums and haven't been burned by following this rule. There's a Victron Multiplus for sale that I might...

Sheesh, I go away on vacation and nobody posts anything.

That was very common in my house growing up. Dad wasn't someone that a young person talked back to. If he saw you stumble there was no sympathy and he said, "Walk much?" When I grew up, I started responding more acerbically. Dad: Walk much? Me: You taught me how. Dad: You must not have...

I spent the day at the storage lot yesterday and made good progress. The new step drill bits did a nice job. A quick swipe with sandpaper cleaned up the contact area nicely. I hauled my drill press and chop saw to the storage lot and that worked out really well, but that drill press is really...

While researching another topic, I came across this webpage that covers how to connect bus bars. The key detail I took from the article is that the surface contact between two connecting bus bars needs to be five times the cross section of the bus bar...

Verify ALL your connections. Focus on the terminals for the cell that appears to be a runner. 50% of the time, when we see an issue like this on the forum, it's a bad connection. Take off the bus bars, clean the terminal and bus bar surfaces, checking for burrs. Use an anti-oxidant if you're...

Reporting back in after doing my install. All my connections that terminated in a screwed down terminal got a ferrule. 10 awg, 8 awg and 6 awg wires. Even the wires going into the ground bus bar got a ferrule. Using the recommended link from @KG6S I bought a 14 - 4 awg ferrule kit and...

No, I'm not going to use flattened copper pipe.

The Alt-e newsletter let me know this is the one year anniversary of Amy's passing. Her videos will be useful for many years. I still send newbies to her videos.

I've had to reduce and did it with a butt connector. Not ideal, but it worked. Here are reducing adapters: https://www.greaves-usa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ReduceR-Color-Sheet.pdf

Got an email explaining how to read maps backwards....

Quick-n-Dirty battery compression frame. Compartment where it all lives. The battery frames are held down with 1.5" angle aluminum on the sides and the front.

I would have never guessed. ?

The leads from the power supply should be on diagonal ends of the battery, not the same end. Oops, sunshine_eggo beat me to it by a few minutes.

Not an "up in smoke" result but I said "WTF?" a lot. In rewiring my system for a new Multiplus inverter/charger I managed to switch the positive and negative cables at the inverter. Beats my why I did that, it's clearly labeled. In my defense, it's clearly labeled until you put cables on the...

When you're asking for help, you need to make it easy for us to help you. There's only so much time in the day. If you don't care enough about my time, then you're not really looking for help. I would have given you an opinion if you had provided the necessary information. I will say that...

You'll have fewer problems if you go with an actual 48 volt battery instead of putting four 12 volt batteries in series.

It's about dad and it's a joke, so it's a dad joke, right?

On a side note (that isn't funny at all), if that's real butter then my wife would be appalled. With every batch of cookies she makes I am reminded how expensive butter has become.

What's the best gift to give?

Instructions attached. The original came an Amazon review by Bastrop Guardian. I corrected the spelling and improved the formatting.

Howdy from rainy Arizona. New tires were put on my truck this morning in Las Vegas. Discount Tire put on Goodyear Wrangler Adventurers (same as the OEM tire I had from the factory), replacing the Michelin LTX. It's a very different ride now. The truck behaves well and isn't all over the road...