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I will post them in a day or so, waiting for scaff tower to be collected so will look better.

The school of thought seems to be that using solder is defeating the object of crimping esp where heat could be generated and melt the solder, better to not have any gaps to fill. Maybe fold to double the wire would be a better solution.

Here's my completed solar porch which is now live. I say completed but a few things to tidy but these are more about aesthetics and so can wait for the warmer weather. I've used the panels as the actual roof and so far seems to keep dry under the porch although that wasn't my primary concern I...

MPP Solar AIO units can do this. The models that state can run battery-less can do true blending of AC and Solar mix to feed your loads etc. without any possible grid export providing wired correctly.

Gravity batteries of all sorts are making a come back so of course we have water like you are thinking but also lots of work around using blocks or crushed rock to store energy as heat or with gravity e.g. using old mine shafts, raise a big weight with solar/wind power and then lower it at night...

I'm the same, get all the washing done, cook my evening meal early etc. :)

I found in the end that these were leisure starter batteries but sold as deep cycle leisure. I got a refund and went LifePo4 and haven't looked back since. The system now just works and needs no interventions.

I'm from UK and have just recently DIY installed an off-grid but with grid backup. Forget grid tie as due to lots of legislation you will have to use a registered installer and all approved parts which will cost you a lot of money. Also most of these installed grid tied systems will tie you into...

The main complications for grid tie are (defo in my country) is that you can only use equipment from companies that have paid massive amounts to get products licensed, we then have to have the install licensed as well. This makes the price of a system very expensive to the point that it would...

Yes the inverter will only take from the panels what can be used, if you have a battery that needs charging or you are exporting to grid then the system will suck everything it can from the panels to charge the battery or export to the grid etc. Also if you increase your loads whilst the sun is...

Sorry if I didn't come back with the outcomes earlier. I had 2 issues. One was a faulty board on the inverter causing F51 or was it F52 faults and the other was I was using the wrong type of RCD. I was advised from this group on a PM to swap the breaker over to a Class Type A. I swapped to the...

Yes it was all sorted. The board was faulty and has now been replaced. MPP sent me the new board and I fitted it. I also now have a 5.2kwH battery and the system is running great.

If the Ecoflow can take the voltage then try all 4 in series, if not the 2S2P. Are your angles good and panels without shadow areas? Also if the battery is full and not taking any loads then it will throttle down as will only take what it can. Try it with some decent loads on it whilst daytime...

Yes

I'd say you want an off-grid but with grid/utility backup type inverter, that way no feedback/export possible unless wired wrongly so no DNO required.

I built a lean-to porch, only one row of panels but they are just sitting on and clamped down from underside to my wooden rafters and don't leak where they are sat on the wood without any other seals.

Mine has a port for BMS so assumed it would.

I had posted asking a question but then a little later realised I had been silly and just read something wrongly on my inverter so wanted to delete but couldn't. I ended up editing it to this post lol.

I don't but was the latest the other week. It only doubled the stored AHs on update but I've now corrected and its behaved since.

These are brand new sealed flooded lead acid so haven't check the gravity yet, just googling how to check the gravity of sealed batteries.

Yes I'm using a single PIP6048MT which is a 6KW and like our PIP5048 cannot export to grid. If your grid input has been moved/reconfigured so that it's only job is to feed the inverters then even with the Deye (if it has a grid export off) it can't export as the AC-in shouldn't be bidirectional...

Yes, just leave the final neg unplugged until you have everything done so the string can't be live until you are ready to connect that final negative.

Thanks, my wire to the breaker can sustain 62amps and its only really short in length being about 25cm and anything after that breaker is another breaker rated for the wire on that particular circuit but thanks for that info as always good to sense check. Yes the breaker has both short circuit...

Thanks, I figured it must be something like false readings.

Energy saving becomes addictive once you start getting it free from the sun :)

I like your idea, I guess you will need to calculate your water volume and fall in order to come up with how much you can store. Then you will need to calculate how much solar energy you will need to pump it up and if it makes sense with losses etc. I think it could work but only if you have...

No because you are not generating power to export back into the grid. You will still be consuming from grid but without any possible export back then it is akin to getting say an electric fire or other consuming type appliance and them expecting you inform them about that.

Glad you got it sorted with our help :)

I'm hoping that they hurry up and release Sodium Ion batteries as they are supposed to be a lot cheaper and if nothing else it will mean more batteries on the market and so should see general prices come down.

If his inverter is like mine then he can have AC-in connected to the grid as its a non-bidirectional port but will then need to connect any loads to the AC-out and the AC-out must not go back to grid for sure. I have all my AC-out loads on a separate off-grid circuit but of course that circuit...