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Hi all, Just to say, this is a great site and I love it. Long time follower of solar trends and watch Youtubers such as Will Prowse, Off-grid garage, etc. I'm a green horn solar enthusiast, thus browse through this forum from time to time learning bits and bobs and decided to finally join...

Hi Dougbert, Not American. It's a project to be installed in West Africa.

Thanks for the welcome. Nice to see there's more of us here. From one solar enthusiast to another, hope the sun continues to shine bright for us all.

Hi Guys, My mate is about to embark on a 20KW (50 pieces of 410W/405W) ground mounted solar pv install connected to a 40KW battery system. We have compiled the following list of components to go with it. What other parts or bits would you add or improve on this install? The solar panel mix are...

Thanks for contributing SeaGal, We have indeed thought about that and would be adding more batteries in the future hence a modular system is required. I was trying to be very very conservative with the amount of power this would likely generate :). It is more around 9 -12 sun hours a day and...

Thanks for the suggestion. I have looked it up and purchased one. Battery was bought for a mobility scooter and never used or so they stated. Managed to do a test yesterday with a small battery meter and indicated good. I'll do further checks on it to make sure though. Away from that, there was...

Anyone ?:sneaky:

Great stuff. Thanks for the advise. We are planning on multiple lines of protection including inline fuses, surge protectors and many others.

Thanks for the kind word. I'll enjoy it for sure!

Great stuff and knowledge you're impacting. Grateful to come across you and learn. I'll have the Optimate meter about tomorrow. Will hopefully get it set up over the weekend and let you all know how it goes.

Thank you & correction noted. I see my lack of clear info was my undoing. The panel specs are as follows 410W (40 pieces) (Voc) 37.2V (Isc) 14.01A 405W (10 pieces) (Voc) 37V (Isc) 13.93A Inverter Max PV voltage of 800V Max PV Isc 34 + 17 I am essentially confused on how much panels can go...

I Thank you for commenting. I think I understand the Pylontech which is 15s x 3.2V=48V x100Ah =4.8KWH. The latter is probably 16s. The battery sizing is what I am thinking of, a 40KWh against 20KW installed pv? The location is in West Africa with 6 hours or more minimum sun hours and...

Hi. I'll certainly be interested if anyone travels over there to collect. I'm in London. Otherwise, would contacting a Netherand to UK trucking company also help?

Lucky for us now, solar panels aren't so much expensive. I have just couple of them close to 300W. LFP are the future, prices are currently competitive but slowly creeping up. I'll soon transit into lithium where discharge levels at up to 80% won't affect as much AGM cells.