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Cold weld. This is the way.

Thanks for the explanation! Thanks for the good attitude you have demonstrated with this thread.

Complete respect for Midnite Solar. We purchased 2 surge protection devices last fall. We have 3 peripheral components on our home off grid system made by them. Online vendors we spoke with said good things about them.

We are over 7,000 feet altitude. Gas heaters typically need a high altitude orifice to function decently. What is your altitude? We did not have consistent success with a small catalytic propane heater. I was told (later) the high altitude lowered efficiency and effectiveness of the catalytic...

Can we get more information? Is this a project mostly for experimentation? Can you show us images of your equipment? If you are so confused, maybe research more then ask questions, or hire someone.

NAZ SOLAR ELECTRIC Their sales/tech person named Logan helped me out. Email works well with them.

https://www.morningstarcorp.com/company/ ´´With well over 4 million products sold in over 100 countries since 1993...´´ ´´Morningstar’s main advantage can be summed up in two words: employee ownership.´´

When the camper top manufacturer designed this shell for our dogs, I asked for lightweight. The price of aluminum stock per piece is spendy I found out when looking at mounting options. This is an experimental first approach without more material. This week it is hoped perhaps offset angle...

Hopefully new readers here have figured out the title of this thread disparages Victron for comedic effect: that eggo sunny appreciates their products and has the experience to know what else is out there. Sure they’re not for everyone’s applications, and Victron is not perfect every time but...

Really appreciate the information. Very much.

SOK states that users need to have at least 2 full cycle times for the Ah capacity approximation to be even close to accurate. That means batteries need to be fully charged, then fully discharged until the BMS D MOS is tripped. Then do that again. Let us know how it is after you have completed...

Actually it would be nice to see images of your old stuff. These are in use contributing to the home system:

Wonderful for you to have these options and possibilities. How much would it cost to get grid power to your cabin? Might that money be better served using it to maintain independence from the utility with its service charges and add-ons? Perhaps get those flooded lead acid batteries and...

Angled the three, 100 watters and added sandbag weight, then added more for hopefully some wind deflection from the sometimes substantial northeast storms we get in winter. Note that sunlight will degrade the sandbag material over some years.

A good headlamp (candlepowerforums can help) makes dark time a viable option for certain tasks, including final solar panel connections to the system.

Skylights here, will eventually fail By sun damage, or dastardly hail Lose the roof bump, full solar instead You’ll thank us later, as will the shed

Over 10 years I have frequented candlepowerforums (flashlights primarily) and from personal experience and members' reports; illumn, orbtronic (flat fee shipping), li-ion wholesale, 18650 battery store, should meet your needs. Compare total cost and know that free shipping is not always the best...

Time to use some of your cat herding skills, or put your panels in extreme winter mode!

Although I was a bit snarky with the Amazon-presented South Bend T-Class fuse listing (twice they refused my review submission questioning their legitimacy; said I could not have a question in a review. Problem was their Amazon listing was not allowing questions to be posed at the time) I...

The settings stayed when we switched our batteries from flooded to AGM. Ours is over 16 years old. We do not utilize many of the features but volts, amps and percent are handy. Kind of annoying when we get the notice to equalize; just have to reset it though.

If everything goes perfectly and no experimenting/testing necessary? Sure. Otherwise you might very much wish you had the capability to easily disconnect. Problems seem to fluster many of us and a wrong move by a stressed individual can be expensive or downright hazardous. Guessing so many of...

People run out of propane (or gasoline) all the time. Generators require maintenance and while you are gone, seems like not a good idea for it to auto-start, possibly setting the land on fire? Maybe I am missing something. Is there no way to drain your waterlines? Invest in the future, not...

Hey Evan, Given that you are in a small home (we are too!) the idea of 48V is interesting but that higher voltage can bite harder than 24V or 12V. Your location might determine where you get equipment, where are you? Years ago we had those same Trojans; consider keeping them. As a backup or...

Once set up with decent quality components you could possibly just look at it once in a while, checking tightness of connections after 6 months then yearly? Of course it also depends on your battery situation. It is good form to get to know your system from the beginning though. This will...

Not that long ago I joined (a year and a few months), members online was in the 200's. Just lately, it is regularly in the 500's!

"Better get ready Gonna see the light"

Seems like we have seen data that shows changing panel tilt twice a year is pretty good, with 4 changes per year not that much better?

Fire blanket and a prayerful spirit. Charge ebike outside, and flashlight lithium batteries while awake.

Google search for Albuquerque Greentech, upper right box on search page gives an overview. My (kitrobaskin) review snippet is the second one. Reason for that review: I had sent them a picture of a 15 year old solar panel clamp that I needed more to install additional panels. They responded that...

Being a member on a flashlight forum, working at night with a headlamp is always an option when solar panels are involved.