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Sort of a last minute plea for information here, but I'm having trouble understanding exactly what is covered, and I'm heading to my tax accountant's this week to get my taxes done. I've read in multiple places that anything involved in building my system is deductible. In my case, aside from my...

Thanks for the ideas, guys! Right now they're in their battery box at our house, so I just want them out of the yard here, but I sure don't want to load them up and move them to the property and then have to move them again. It never really occurred to me what to do with "extra" batteries...

OZ- that's incredible hearing that those FLA's (L16's?) are 20 years old! You said "a few of them"- does that mean you've mixed new and old batteries?? I didn't think that was a good practice. As a matter of fact, I just had one of my Silverado's batteries (Duramax diesel has 2 batts) go south...

Thanks, BR, I really appreciate that update. I'm sorry to say that I haven't been able to get back down to the property and apply what i've learned on here yet. But I'm going to head down there tomorrow morning and I'll definitely see what i can find. Thanks again! Lee

Thanks! Sorry it took so long to get back to you.

Went back down to the property yesterday and re-checked the numbers at about 12:30. The sun is nearly straight up and i would guess the panels are at about 60 degrees. Still getting .25kw, exactly, once it powers up the controller. I checked the voltage coming off the series and it read 106.2...

It's like a quarter of the normal energy usage. Actually, it's still in the carton in storage until I get the new house built next summer. Seem like it was 400w daily, or something just really low. I figured that's just what we need with solar. They were hard to find when we got ours a couple of...