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That's exactly what I was thinking.

Well, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. Forgive me if you aren't. Anyway, every fucking forum that I've ever been on in my life has at least a couple of assholes on there that are basically telling you if you have to ask a question, you must be stupid. When, the only real fucking...

So far, I think I've been on this forum for a month or two or something. Anyway, everybody here has been very helpful to me and didn't try to treat me like I was an idiot just because I'm ignorant to solar. There was a time that I was ignorant to hot rodding and beer brewing and everything else...

It was doing so good at 13.7 I went ahead and raised it to 14 about an hour ago and here is what I have. Tell me what you think.

Put them wherever you can that they won't blow away in a wind storm. All this solar shit's already expensive enough. Who needs a racking system that costs more than the actual panels?! Build one out of scrap lumber off Facebook. If you can't find pressure treated or Doug Fir Lumber cheap or...

Making or accepting an offer is arbitrary. How much do you want for it? Pics?

No children. Dog is too lazy to mess with anything and wife is too smart. It will be okay.

About rat holeing money and all of that, solar panels and solar systems are inflation proof. The value of your dollar will keep dropping compounded by Rising power costs from your local provider. If you have a solar system, you can mitigate the hell out of that.

Why would I search for it on Google or something? I came here because it's Will Prowse's site and you guys are supposed to be the experts. I don't want to search and search and search. I just want quick answers so I don't hurt my equipment. I thought answers and learning is what everybody is...

You guys like this any better? Just remove the female outlet and put this back in its place? It would eliminate the suicide cord.

Well, I'm hearing all of the don't do its and the minor amount of smartassery but, so far nobody's giving me a straight answer of WHY not to it. So, that's what I'm asking. Why not do it? I don't see any way that it could hurt anything. It would be an open-ended circuit at the breaker box so it...

I saw a video from that German that lives in Australia and has what he calls the solar garage just now. He said to turn off charging balance so I did. Now it's set to static balance.

Yes. Sometimes, probably every fifth try, it did do it.

I've been a drywall contractor for 30 odd years and I've remodeled the whole house. It's copper wiring and 12 gauge all throughout. Not, to say that I rewired it or anything. Just that I know that is what the house was built with. I tore down every wall and replaced them anew.

No. I am certainly NOT trying to power the whole house. I just want to power one circuit. I think it's a couple of plugins and a living room light that are ran on that circuit. No. I did not see the four reasons that the other guy posted and once I did, I apologized to him for my oversight.

In the next election, vote against Trudeau.

Sorry. My mind was all over the place then and I didn't grasp what you were saying. I totally get it now, though.

Makes me glad I apologized in advance. Ask all the questions you want, my man. As far as I'm concerned that's what we're here for! Learning!

Good luck.

The one that this thread is about. Thank you.

Update photo from right now. 2:15 p.m. my time. If it's working, it's working very slowly.

Seems like with all that crap to go through, a lot of people would just "do it anyway." I mean, if it's not exporting to the grid, how would they ever know?

Looks like shipping for 4 cells is $254, too. Cheaper to just buy a pre-built battery.

I'll bet a lot of people just go for it.

Hey, thank you for taking the time and writing all of that to me. I do see what you mean but I'm now looking at the 12,000 xp. I don't know. What all are your loads? I think that at any given time because of my water heater and my heat pump, I might overload the XP 6000 because, I cannot control...

411?

Loads tester? Wife?

Damn man! Good eye! I bought that inverter from a guy who had it previously installed in a work van and I used his battery cables and never noticed the washer in between. I do however, know that you are not supposed to do that. Thank you for catching that!

Thank you for your answer. So, just going down to 90% and back up to 100 once a day would be enough to keep the battery healthy?

I got this today. Looks like it's doing much better. This is setting the charger to 13.5 Volts for both absorption and float. Time to bump it up a tenth of a volt?

I can't tell you precisely right now because I'm not around the panels but they're somewhere around 49 volts and the battery is a 12 volt. If, that's what you meant by pack voltage.

So, in general, does the inverter just sit between the mains power coming in and your breaker box? I've been looking at these for a while now but I couldn't figure out how they weren't sending power back to the grid when they don't have any CT sensors. If they just sit between the men's power...

TOTALLY UNDERSTANDABLE!!! Thanks, robby. Just turned 50, myself.

EXACTLY! But, I'll get there. Just like I have with everything else I've ever accomplished and didn't know shit about, at first! Thanks for the link and thank you for what you wrote to me. You're cool!

I thought about that and liked the idea of it too until I looked at the XP 12 KW and it has more PV input and a couple of other features that the 6 KW ones don't and in the end you would wind up paying about 500 more dollars for the two 6 KW EG4s. It might be something I'll have to do though...

Nice meme break!

No. I made a mistake above telling you about the 49 volt panels. Where I saw it getting 420 Watts was on for 100 watt panels and I put their specifications in a picture above.

I would plug a radio into the circuit that I want to power and go back and start flipping Breakers until the radio goes off and then I would go around the house with a hair dryer or something and make sure that every other plug-in works. if they do and all the lights come on, I've found an...

So, am I correct? They do not have Bluetooth or any way to monitor the cells? If not, how can you tell what each cell is doing? Not each battery in your four string. But each four cells inside of one battery.

I apologize. I didn't even see your post. I don't really know why. I must have scrolled right over it or something. Anyway, if those are the only reasons then, I don't see it as big issue myself. Sounds to me like as long as you don't screw up, it would be okay. I'm talking about doing this...

So, I have some 540w solar panels, a 1500 w inverter and a 100 amp 12 volt lithium battery with a .5C charge rating. I want to run my swamp cooler from it this summer and it takes about 400 w. What I'm wondering is, what should the specs of the mppt charge controller be and will one of these...

I just realized my tore down every wall statement could be a bit confusing. We call it a tear down in the industry but what it is is ripping off the old wood paneling in this case and replacing it with drywall. You get a good look inside the walls is what I meant.

I keep getting alerts for this discussion and now it's went way off topic.

The calculator doesn't list ET solar panels.

Got it. My phone needed a different file reader.

Right. That's exactly what I was thinking. Then, it's a matter of handling the suicide cord correctly. As in, plug it into the wall before you plug it into the inverter. After that, don't ever touch it unless one of your pieces of equipment breaks down and you have to repair it. Then, shut off...

Are you saying 10 amps just for startup? I mean, it runs at 400 watts which divided by 120 volts wouldn't be much more than 3 amps. Doing in my head it seems like 3.5 amps.

Charge rate. Amperage your battery can tolerate while charging.

.5c is half your battery's amp hour rating. 100ah battery? 50 amps max charge current.

Both manufacturers tell me that it will always prioritize Shore power and stop sending power itself when Shore power is plugged in.

I still don't get it. Whatever password you gave it IS your real password for that device. Anyway, mine won't work at all. It doesn't matter because I don't have to sign in to use the app. It has a jump login that I use to get inside of it. I haven't had a chance to yet but, I'm going to try...

seems like it might already be working. I put the charging voltage down to 13.4 on absorption and float.

Do you guys think that I should fuse the panels? I'd like a DC cutoff anyway. Maybe, I should just use a DC breaker to do both? It would give it a breaker and a cut-off switch at the same time. What DC breaker amperage do you guys think that I should go with?

Thank you, brother. You always help me out and your answers are always concise. I appreciate you, man.

I still don't get it but, I will do what you're telling me to. I'm a newbie. Best for me to follow the shepherd than be a black sheep and fuck things up.😜

You guys are right. There's no need to involve both breakers. Just use the breaker for the three plugins to do it all. That's a better idea. Thanks guys.

The 300 amp hour I was looking at says it has a 200 amp BMS. I suppose I would do it but it's very expensive and adding one more hundred amp hour battery sounds like it would do the heavy lifting anyway and if I found that I still needed more storage capacity, just add another hundred amp hour...

I hope whoever is reading these posts realizes that, the automatic transfer switch that I am referring to is inside of the inverter. It is built into the inverter. You need not an external automatic transfer switch.

See? I shmart!😁

It's a hundred amp hour 12 volt battery in my camper. The recommended charge rate is .5C but with only 500 watts of panels currently and maybe adding 200 more watts later, I don't think that I'll get up to 50 amps.

But, if I go to a 24 volt system, I can add more watts of solar panels to the same SCC. And, are you saying that 2400 watts is 2400 watts either way so, the surge capability would stay the same?

I don't know what part of it do you live in but I know that it's all being overran by people from out of state and it's not going to change. They're just going to keep on coming until they turn us into them. Do everything that you can. Glad to hear about what you are already doing.

I think you should reevaluate yourself. You're less of a liberal than you think you are. Anyone who's conscious about their economic values or any other values is not a liberal.

You shouldn't be forced to be doing any of that. The reality is that you are! Get away from them. Make sure that you are your own self. Certain things we may be forced to rely on but as time goes on, we're finding that we don't have to be reliant on them for electricity.

I'd kind of like to have my battery back in my camper so I don't have to swap it from the house to the camper all the time and now I know that I need to buy another battery anyway so that I have the amps to start the cooler motor. What do you guys think of me just buying a 200 amp BMS 300 amp...

Is it possible that I've been confused here, all along? I have been thinking that you guys are saying that it wouldn't be safe for the wiring in the wall or the outlets or the circuit somehow. Was I wrong? Are you guys just saying that you don't like the suicide cord itself? I realize that a...

Shit! I just realized that is a 24 volt version. Mine is the 12 volt version. I didn't notice that. Let me see what else I can find.

Bump.

Are you saying once I get down to .006 difference, bump up the charging voltage 1/10?

How about this? https://offgridstores.com/products/sungoldpower-10kw-48v-split-phase-solar-inverter

I don't have another lifepo4 right now but, I'd like to test the theory anyway. What if I hook up a lead acid battery in parallel with the existing lithium just to get the proof of concept. Just see if the cooler will run on its own thermostat and everything kicking on and off for a couple of...

Well, whether or not you're going to hook it to the breaker panel or just to one Outlet is immaterial to me as long as, you don't plug in anything that takes more power than the inverter can handle. Also, I looked at your diagram and I don't see a reason for a transfer switch between a generator...

I want to know all about it! Pictures pictures pictures, please! Thanks a lot for chiming in. I really appreciate it!

I started out with a hundred watt solar panel and a charge controller and changed my battery to lithium but now, I'm doing 400 more watts on the roof and a bigger inverter and a shunt and another battery and a few other things I can't think of right now. I'm just wondering how you guys fit it...

At first, I'm just gonna run it with one battery like we were discussing. Especially after realizing the cooling period you mentioned. After running lead acid deep cycles all my life that max out at 500 cycles, what do I care if i knock even half the life off a battery that's supposed to get at...

I know that's true because he has helped me out before. And cracking one joke like he did does not make you an asshole! He's okay.

It's a pet peeve of mine too. In this area, we have a builder called cbh homes. The cbh stands for Corey Barton homes. So, it comes out Corey Barton homes homes!

Oh! A simple amps times volts equals watts. Okay. I got a doctor's appointment soon but, I'll hook up the shunt. Thank you. I appreciate it.

I didn't disable it. I just made it where it's static balancing. I take it to mean that, it balances whether it's charging or not when it's in static mode.

I already mentioned that above but, thank you. I appreciate it.

So, I'm good. Yeah?

Thank you and , I have a good grasp of What Not to plug into it. Hahaha!

I'll look into it. Thank you.

YES! Actually, thank you very much for the diagram. That is exactly how I was thinking of connecting it. Of course, if anybody else here can tell me a reason why not to, I'm all ears. For now, I don't see anything wrong with it myself. I'm a newbie when it comes to house solar systems but, I am...

Excellent! That is exactly how I was thinking of doing it! Good to know I was on the right track. Thanks a lot, man.

Here it is at 14.2 Volts for about an hour or a little more. Looks really good. Am I done? Go ahead and cycle the battery?

So, I just connect the ac out on the inverter to the same connection that the 30 amp cord goes to and by plugging in the cord that is on the inverter to one of the outlets in the camper, it will notice when I plug into Shore power and stop the inverter? So that I don't have the inverter and...

For one thing, to hell with how California does it. For another thing, I know exactly what you're talking about. Since I've been looking into this I found out that last year the state of Idaho gave Idaho Power the right to increase our price and gave Idaho Power the right to decrease what we...

Thanks a lot. I'll just ground it right to the buss bar as we discussed.

Still doesn't make sense to me and you always help me out. You're one of the last guys that I ever want to piss off here. I just don't see any reason that it would be unsafe at all. The circuit doesn't care where power comes into it.

Sounds like you're calling me an idiot. If you are stupid enough to touch the end of a suicide cord, you are the idiot. Not me. If I've taken you wrong, I apologize in advance.

I see exactly what you mean and I sincerely thank you for putting the time into writing it to me. But, there is no such thing as wiring it safely. It can receive power from either end. From the breaker box or from the plug-in. Either way is safe! The circuit will be completely dead unless I...

Okay. So, if I turn off the breaker to shut off power coming from the solar panels to the charge controller, I should then be able to turn the BMS charging off. Correct? If I understand you guys correctly, you're just saying that when I shut the battery off, all of the voltage from the solar...

Its a y&h 60amp. If it is really a pwm, I would be very surprised! One day it was reading 422 Watts with only 400 watts of panels.

So far in all of this discussion, that's just your opinion. There has been no founded reason so far to not use one. Not that I can see except , fear.

Wait! it shows inverter IN power going to the same thing as the shore power. It is the inverter out power that you would be hooking to your breaker box. So by me plugging the cord which is the IN power for the inverter into one of the plugins in my camper, I would be paralleling the in power and...

You would connect the inverter in power in parallel with Shore power. Not, the inverter out power. Shouldn't release any satanic smoke!

Doesn't matter, I suppose. I'll just do it the way I'm going to do it. Six mounting points.

Not worth it but, thanks. I'll figure it out. I'm going to start with four at first and then maybe figure out how to put the other two on. I mean, this started out is just wanting for anyway. I was just happy as a clam though when somebody on this thread started saying that I could have six! I...

I'm trying to learn so that I do know what I'm doing but, communication is looking like it's not cheaper. There are less expensive batteries than the eg4 batteries.