Recent content by kscessnadriver

I was looking at these the other day at Home Depot as well. I'm not a buyer right now, but my 20+ year old Toro zero turn isn't long for the world. I probably mow 1.5-2 acres when it's all said and done (between around the house, the driveway, along the roadside and my fruit orchard). And its...

I'll probably keep an eye on this battery, looks decent, assuming it actually functions as designed.

I get dropouts during very heavy thunderstorms (I assume mostly from signal attenuation because of the volume of water). Other than that, it's great. I've got the standard Gen 2 dish, with the included base, mounted on my roof. I bought a kit from amazon that included 4 magnet pucks to place on...

This actually isn't a bad idea. I'm planning on running 2 parallel 10kW AIO's, and had planned on combining it all with PDB's. But in some ways, using a very basic 200A panel to combine them might be a better (and perhaps cheaper) method.

Why would you not just combine into a PDB, with a breaker on each inverter between the PDB? Using multiple backfed breakers seems like a total pain, and something that would be easy to backfeed the grid...

Exactly how I’d do it, and how I plan to do it using the Growatt AIO that’s coming out soon.

Reading the Intro slides, they show 3 battery types (all of Growatt origin); the ALP, Hope and AXE battery. Only one (the AXE) have I ever seen listed for sale in the US. Are the other two coming, or is that more of a global product we won't see here?

Easy to throw stones when you're a retailer. Especially when you don't carry stuff of the companies your throwing shade to. Is it because of their warranty, or because your margin isn't high enough on them...

Why not just wait until one of the US suppliers has the thing? I’m just not sure it’s worth taking the risk on alibaba

I understand the voltage drop. It's more of the derating for being in a conduit with more than 3 conductors and any potential temperature derating. Having a large enough wire to meet code, is the issue here.

Yeah, it would be easier to just run them all as single string 10AWG. But I'm hopefully future-proofing myself by combining 2 strings into 1, should I need to add more panels later. I would only use the AL from the disconnect at the array to the external DC disconnect at the residence. Beyond...

~350 volts or so. Growatt inverter, SPH 10000TL-HU-US.

Because the inverter MPPT's don't support that kind of amperage. Each inverter has 3 MPPTs, each capable of 22A at most.

Exactly. Thats why I was planning on maybe going a size higher that I absolutely have to. My biggest question is just simply AL vs CU, but I'm not sure it really makes much of a difference, as long as they're properly installed

Then educate me on why I’m wrong? I understand the voltage drop concept, I also understand derating is required by the NEC