Recent content by jasonhc73

Using it for the first time this season (mid-March, 2024) the LV2424 was pulling ~750 watts from the panels.

Kind of a mind blown moment. Do read the comments. ?

This doesn't make any sense. 480 grams for ONE 46165 cell. To make a 300 AH 12V battery, 16S4P, that one battery would weigh 30.7 KG just in cells. That's 122.9 KG for a 48V setup...

version 2023-08-16 is live.

These ROOFs are rated to hold a 350lb owner standing on his feet. Now imagine how much pressure those roofs have on them when a 150lb pair of panels is spread out over 18 square feet.

The battery is from 2018, new then, but has been 100% submerged in rainwater for two years, outside. The charge controller is the absolute cheapest Amazon PWM available, I think I paid $8.50 for it. The panel is a 72-cell panel, but half are disabled. I suspect a broken solder somewhere. It was...

I used this from TEMCo on eBay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/373522429654

The hottest the inverter ever got was 84°C and then went into fail-safe. It only did this when it was asked to do 12kW. The vast majority(99.999%) of the time the entire system was 40°C or less.

I don't think it is worth anything. The only sort of "BMS" I can advocate for is an Active Balancer that has at least 1 amp of balancing. Now that I have the max Voltage set with the charge controller and the low Voltage cutoff controlled by the inverter, I don't use anything that the BMS has...

You put the CTs for the Solarark on the line, you put the CTs for the Vue at the meter. This is how I have it right now. :)

The "zero export" works the same way as the Vue, it still has to have a CT to know when to stop sending out to the grid.

You can really get wrapped around the axel trying all these options or just use Emporia and a Net Meter. You said you are connected to the grid already.

I use the Emporia Vue and Charger. It works exactly as expected. You set the EVSE to excess solar. When the Vue detects more than 1200 watts going out to the grid, the Vue signals the EVSE to turn on and charge the car. Every 240 watts more after that is another amp more to the EVSE. You...

Per Cell: 3.40 V max (90%) 3.15 V min (15%) Stay between and will last very very long.

Parallel setups are for expanded capacity or syncing phases. Not for failsafe redundancy. If one fails, the entire system goes down, or that phase is offline, or back to a single operation. I'm guessing 120V...