I have a couple hundred feet of Aluminum underground wire meant for feeding a house with 120/240v I think it is 9 strands of aluminum.
I am wondering if I can use it to carry power from the solar panels to the inverter. I understand DC current flows best in a multiple fine strand wire, like...
Somebody set up my offgrid friend with bunch of AGM batteries and a 280 watts of solar panel.
He has 1700AH of 12 volt AGM batteries in parallel, divided into 2 banks. All are 12 Volt and that is also his inverter input. He has borrowed my 150 amp charger, and is using a gas gen to recharge. He...
Good Morning All,
I have made the decision to go with a solar system, not grid tied. Yearly average solar hours are 4.7 in my area.
Average consumption of my house and Machine shop is 28kw/day. This can be cut down a bit by shutting down the electric clothes dryer.
Present average daily use is...
My neighbor is running a battery bank consisting of 8 Powersafe SBS 190 AH 12 volt agm batteries. He has them wired in 2 banks of 4 batteries in parallel. These 2 parallel banks are then wired in series so there are 4 batteries on each side of the series connection cable.
Electrically this...