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    Heat Pump water Heaters

    Our 3 mini spits in winter are what we heat with ,with all our solar power and extra batteries. I'm a bit worried at .43cents a KW we will eat up that gas cost pretty fast and start paying big tome for power in winter .Any leftover power now goes to the 80 gallon solar preheat tank in a...
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    Heat Pump water Heaters

    Ok I totaled up my gas usage in dollars for the last year-it was $1,400, Thats split between cooking (gas stove and oven) forced air heating -Low use as wek have mini splits and a pellet stove but do use it on cold mornings to take the chill off water heating (as noted have a solar asset system...
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    Choosing glass for solar water heater

    any tempered glass will work-no need to be the textured you had.Clear is best anyway
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    Heat Pump water Heaters

    All hot water pipes are fully insulated and that smart pump moves water extremely slowly or any speed when needed (7$ a year to operate) can be installed on any water heater with a drain.
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    Heat Pump water Heaters

    Yes I'm aware they cool the space which does me zero good-If I could fit inside our small house I would but alas that not happening space wise . I'll gather my 12 months of gas bills annd see what gives vs buying 4 months worth of power on the non solar months midwinter. I should I add I am a...
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    Heat Pump water Heaters

    First let me explain my whole system so you can see the whole picture. I have since 1983 had 2 4x8 solar hot water panels south facing on my roof is what's know to us old timers as a drain back system . That is when its gets cold or in my case nearly every night on a timer its drains down so it...
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    Sol-Ark 15K with open loop batteries asking for trouble?

    I have had really great service talking to Sol arc Tecs with all the options adjusting the specs /setup on the phone while at the unit in reguards to the best settings for my batteries .
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    Efficiency issue or...????

    Right now with the low sun here in Extreme Nortnern California on the coast our panels only get full sun exposure for 4 hours a day.. 10ish to 2 pm. Some days this will not charge our battery bank. (9,600 watts) 24x 400 amp panels. The batteries are 3 x 7.5 Kilovualts=22.5kw. I'm thinking your...
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    Efficiency issue or...????

    Its a cloudy rainy day here and my system is at 90% efficiency right now as well
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    Efficiency issue or...????

    On another battery note. My 3 kilovolt batteries (7.8kw each) did not talk to each other . That is two are version threes and one is version 4. When I had just two 3s they talked fine and the new this past year version 4 would not talk to the 3rs and the charge was not equal with them all. I...
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    Efficiency issue or...????

    Just set up the sol arc dongle to the net and the phone app and you will see the info in real time,Its your own account I did not read who much panel output you have to power the 54KW battery bank? whats the panel output? my 24 X400=(9600) watt panels power our 22.5kw batteries down here in...
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    Sol-Ark needs a serious Change!

    Lets see Zenith and Motorola and RCA and Texas Instruments used to make the good stuff. If I reacll we shipped it all out to Sony and the like long ago. You can head on down to Radio Shack and see what they offer in a USA model? Oh wait they went away too-(back online now) Taiwan makes the chips...
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    Is there any way to make money from excess power apart from selling back to grid?

    I put my extra power into an 80 gallon solar water tank that preheats our gas water heater.That is a 3,000 watt electic stinger in mid tank. That tank also gets hot water from two 4x8 panels (solar hot water panels) on roof
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    Sol-Ark not a good company to deal with 12k

    Yes 10 ply tires are a must 80 PSI type E . I run Michelins on my 1 ton van and 3/4 ton truck. I like the belted side wall ones -I order them from Costco. Been running them for decades-Get about 70k on them if you rotate them well
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