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Certainly is always an option to grow the system. I am in a 1 year lease to own currently on this system other than batteries so I hope to get by with what I have until I can add more to it once lease is paid. I also have a Jackery pro generator and it can pull lights etc when needed. It has...

Yes we were running a heater but as far as time, it is in my building, not house. We were just uncrating a piece of equipment so plan would not have even been 45 to 75 mins. Now the whole plan of this was to run a laser engraver and these batteries may not be feasible for that either.

We just bought the stuff and followed YouTube video and Renogy was brand. My husband's job actually makes wire for panels ( not Renogy) and that's why he wanted to try solar. Plus our quote for electric was a lot more pricey for start up.

No not planning on that sorta heat persay. This is a 12x20 shed that I'm using for a workshop aka craft room. As soon. As sun comes up it heats pretty quickly which will probably be a little problematic in july! I have 2 laser engravers in my house and my pro model is in the building partly in a...

Nothing really to report yet. Someone asked earlier if system was 12 or 24. I have always thought 12v because batteries and panels were parallel. I grabbed this screenshot. Does this indicate different?

Can anyone recommend a 4/0 wire? Everything I have came from Renogy Amazon store. Also do I need 250 ANL rather than the 300? And to busbar or not?

We went with this pkg because the videos stated you could add on. I actually upgraded to the 2000 watt inverter and 400 watt panels. That was doubling original pkg. Also have 2 controllers, 20 amp it came with in box and the 30 amp on wall that we are using. I'm all for expansion as needed.

We had a cable going from positive on first battery to the inverter to get so hot it was smoking and melting so we took load off and shut off inverter. We had a 1500 watt heater running which we've done a few times before adding a 2nd battery. So I guess a heater is a no go with this setup...

Yes on both terminals ( only was talking about positive because negative side didnt have the issue.) has controller, cable from ANL fuse going to inverter and now the 2nd Battery is connected on so there's 3. Never knew anything about a busbar until asked in Renogy FB group which doesn't move as...

So I'm new and tried to provide what I knew. The wire was provided by Renogy in their bundle so i assumed you used what they sold with kit which was 1/0AWG. There's 2 12V 100AH Weize AGM batteries,

Only my bldg is off grid. I would not be using a heater and machine at same time, it would be middle of day and it only gets cold in there late night or overnight, increasing the system capacity is certainly ok to discuss but I would just use 1 powered thing at a time.

Lots of info overload lol. OK to start, we can't use the wire that Renogy sent in this bundle and the ANL fuse is too big. All this started (going solar) to run a laser engraver and we havent even gotten to that part! What about a busbar or addressing all of this connected to the positive terminal?

My husband can test it. . He's a QA tech for a wire company. He can put it under xray. I've never had a reason to doubt anything until posting on here.