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    Solomon islands remote off grid small solar system 12v AC system Help..

    That's a sweet setup in a sweet location. Your 800 watts of panels and two batteries should be fine for your freezer and lights and charging as long as you get a lot of daylight hours to charge. If the rain on your panels is a common thing then you might be under-powered. Try to get LED...
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    Does Micro Charging decrease Battery Life

    Thanks Hedges. You comments support jim's first law: if it aint broke it will be. However, my inverter has saved my butt several times so far because it shuts down when an over-power condition exists. If not, my solar days would have been short and I would be perusing some other hobby right...
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    Does Micro Charging decrease Battery Life

    That's a good idea GXMnow, I will set it that way. jim
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    Does Micro Charging decrease Battery Life

    Thanks Will, I enjoy your videos. Especially your battery tear down techniques which often involve sledge hammers :) jim
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    Does Micro Charging decrease Battery Life

    This is what I meant by 100 amps: I put a breaker between the inverter and the load to limit the AC current pushed by 120 volts so that the battery current pushed by 24 volts never exceeds 100 DC AMPs. So I was talking about an AC breaker not a DC breaker. I use fuses on the DC side because...
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    Does Micro Charging decrease Battery Life

    Here is my setup: I have an Ampere-Time 24 volt 100 AH battery connected to a 3,000 watt 24 volt inverter. I use a 1,200 watt solar panel to charge the battery as needed via an MPPT charge controller. Under normal conditions, the load on the inverter varies through out the day. When the...
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