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It couldnt hurt! The reason I ask, is because im guessing at some point your setting 02 was higher, and then you tried EG4 mode it reset itself to 20a because it thought you only had 1 battery in the bank. I had this issue when i first started and had my dip switches set wrong

Recently I was trying to look into what exactly causes calendar aging and what is physically happening to the battery, as most of the time people just say "calendar aging" and leave it at that. Here is a dense article / paper that I tried to skim through, along with some charts from the...

The only time I emailed SS was on Nov 16 2022. Got a reply in 1h 7m. Granted it was an easy question. But I had a follow up I sent later that same day. Again received an email in 1h 6m. There wasn’t much to that email either. But honestly I was impressed. I was definitely ready to wait a day or...

I am in NY. I have 2 IMO switches outside, just as you pictured. The solar installer I worked with designed it like this to pass code, and when I had the electrical inspector come up, he didn’t say anything about them. I thought this was the case as well. You want someone to be able to shut...

Usually this just gives me a good laugh. I think it’s hilarious. But today I looked at it and felt a deep thankfulness and reverence for Will. It’s probably hard to comprehend how many peoples lives he has changed and how many people have been empowered by him. I dont think I would have been...

setting 2 is the predefined limit. 20a * 54v = 1080w.. so thats why you are being limited. Spec sheet says recommended 30-50a per battery. SS charges them at 40a in their office. doesnt really matter for you since you only have 1x inverter and it max is 120a 30a * 4x batteries = 120a I...

Seems like just yesterday I was living in my 100sqft camper off 200-800w of PV and my dump load was getting to run the computer for the day!, along with charging up my power tool batteries, and AAA rechargeables, which could be used as backup if the main 12v system couldn't make it through the...

as weird as it is, it also seems like there is a non zero number of people in this forum who are Not customers and Unsatisfied. Might I recommend sports if you want to pick a team and root against all other teams for no reason

Just got another video. This one is pretty clear on what’s happening Idk if this helps at all @SignatureSolarJames

my 6500s switch between solar and battery seamlessly. Ive had alarm turned off for a while now, but even when I had it on, I dont think it triggered when switching back and forth between solar and battery. I do remember when I had mine in standby, when it was near sunrise or sunset, they would...

So for anyone else that might find this… I’ll give my story on how I woke up my batteries. I talked w a SS rep on the phone after calling them (she was great, got straight to the point and helped me out). I was told to charge with a charger at 56.0v , 5a. I was given a recommendation for...

lights and a fountain are both cool ideas. mainly because you can find them in 12v and then wire directly to the Load part of your charge controller. so you would not need to purchase an inverter to make 120v. the charge controllers also probably offer some setting for when to turn the load...

If it pulled air from the bottom, where would the air filters go? They would be behind the front bottom removable case, and you would have to remove the whole front bottom case including probably detaching the screen just to clean the air filters as suggested each month. The only reason this...

It is tough to measure the SOC using voltage for LFP batteries because they have such a flat discharge curve. You can use voltage to try and measure, but that is just the same metric that the battery / inverter SOC estimation is using. I dont use Solar Assistant but I believe it also just uses...

This must be a typo. Pretty sure you ment to say 300 thousand or 300,000. Not 300,000 thousand. That would be 300 million. The equivalent of burning ~15 cords of wood in a day. So assuming you ment 300k btu/day. Raising 1000cuft of sand 100F equaling 1.8M BTU would give you 6 days of heat...

Just wanted to give an update on this. I went with a different inspection company. The inspector also didn’t want to make me do anything that wasn’t required by code. He was also unsure about the exterior disconnect and the DC breakers and bus bars. He never really mentioned the exterior...

I also wanted to say @EJansen , I would try just charging each battery to full, and then hooking them all together and deep cycling them all together. I think that is what Ben from SS was talking about in his post, and it could be what your contact at SS was talking about as well because I...

Here is how my off grid system is wired. I’m sorry for using the wrong terminology and spreading confusion. Using the correct terminology now: My “Main Panel” (or inverter combiner panel) only has 1 breaker (2-pole) and it is right after the inverters. My “Sub Panel” is what came with the...

Tax laws change all the time and are subject to the state that the products are being purchased in. The tax law is a dense web of bureaucracy. Are you really up to date on all of the tax laws in Kentucky? Looks like Kentucky says you are supposed to pay sales tax on stuff bought over the...

Here is a smaller version than the one you have...

I did an iron ridge kit for 6.8KW of panels. I was blow away by the cost of it. Spent $3k on the panels. Iron ridge kit was $2k. Plus the 3” mechanical tubing (pipe). was another $2.5k (ordered from Tubular USA - they sell specifically for the iron ridge kit). I was working with a solar...

Im surprised no one mentioned the PVwatts website yet... unless I missed it? https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/ You can enter in your location and degree of the panels to see what each months production will look like at different degrees. I did my site in 5deg intervals and overlaid them all on a...

These are the reasons when i finally got a home that i decided to keep it off grid. If the monopoly was actually in the interests of the people then I dont think it would be as bad. But they are out to make a profit and squash any competition. For more than a decade they have fought against...

I agree. Some people have just turned masking into some sort of political issue. Before the pandemic it was frowned upon to hide your face or even your head (wearing a hood on a hoodie was associated with being sketchy). Now that its more normalized, I feel like some people are just more...

Yes it’s exactly as James Says. Just a panel before my main house panel where the inverters combine, and also a place where I have the option to add in a generator backup.

https://diysolarforum.com/threads/eg4-6500ex-48-single-input-mppt-max-useable-pv-wattage-question.46280/ Maybe this thread will be some help. Sounds like you will be safe to add more panels as long as you don’t go over 500voc or 18 amps. But… you will be clipped at 4000w and not get any more...

Here is another post that describes what you are talking about Post in thread 'EG4 6500ex Max PV output 6.8k instead of 8k' https://diysolarforum.com/threads/eg4-6500ex-max-pv-output-6-8k-instead-of-8k.46979/post-596984 That whole thread could be worth reading if you are really trying to max...

I had a stationary camper with a (shabby) greenhouse built on the front of it, and then kept a 12v battery in a tote, with a 2nd tote on top of it with the SCC and inverter. drilled small holes for the wires, kept the electronics on wood so they wernt sitting on the bottom if moisture did get...

how would you plan to connect 3 wires together without a bus bar? Just with a single post somewhere? If you are doing this without a bus bar it would usually look something like this