Recent content by kromc5

After syncing, I read the manual several times, but the feature was not thoroughly explained. I ordered the direct cables that evening and posted a question on Victron to ensure I was not overlooking something. Snoobler responded to my question on the victron community. Put two on direct and...

I have them in every combiner box per string; I put breakers on all the single 6s arrays but wanted to research to research if that is sufficient.

I found these unistrut mounts on Amazon and decided to test them by laying the panels out just to be sure. I need to cut a small extension for the unistruts as well, but I can fit all 30 panels in the last spot on the side.

Let them rest yesterday and set it to float at 54v this morning, but I must pull apart cell 4. The top bank second picture is in better shape.

I'm also doing that since I'm rewiring the panels. I decided the breakers were too expensive to replace multiple times. Now I have fuses in all the combiners, which are simple and much less expensive.

Right at 60kWh, with these two it will make 6 in total.

I sat with the new banks for some time, watching them charge. The bottom bank had the largest delta in cell volts, no loose screws, and verified with the meters. Since it was 128, charging one per day would take too long. I am considering how to continue charging; charging is off, and I will...

I just figured it out, I went to make a test profile and that was replicated across all the controllers. There was a late night firmware update for the cerbo. As I had not made any changes to the victron units at all in the last two days. After the firmware update the two mppts were synced to...

Hit the first issue with a victron, it's been doing well the past few days. I noticed it was getting close to the full on the watchman; the 450 never slowed down as the m8's went into bypass. There is no error/alarm in the history; I even set everything to 48v, which still ramps to 100 percent.

I finished all the final touches on the arrays after dark, It's already over 19kw this morning, so that is not too bad. Going to start marking the location for the following 30 panels today.

I'm still installing and working on everything, but this is what it looks like so far.

I finally made another ethernet cable to have the 3rd victron up in vrm. I do not see a way to make separate panels for each one. Does seem like you would need a cerbo for each one, I guess? I saw I can add the victron shunt to the cerbo so I may try that. I have a spare watchman and shut, but I...

That is very nice, I wish the flat land was closer. I would have really liked to have long arrays in that fashion. I do have a flat, but it's all 220+ feet from the house.

In the thread, one person talks about over-paneling: "The ISC is with 27,62A over the limit."

That is a fascinating read; I am about 1/2 through the thread. Just finished wiring the panels up and checking all of them. I got two pallets to install and make a small 7-8 panel array for the mini split.