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Thailand has the issue that many approved installers outside of Bangkok are useless they rarely test pipework for leaks(vacuum lines but won't leave the vacuum for any time to see if it looses negative pressure), no idea at all about nitrogen testing or using any goop on fittings, install the...

Plus a monthly 15% off coupon bring the price down to €809 sorry my rough maths was off but even without the coupon the price is still €500 less than you paid. The cheaper models are considerably less see attachments below.

No lightning strikes but a few times drunks have folded trucks into 33kv power poles along the stretch of road outside my farm and the SPD fitted to our main breaker has tripped, not sure about saving anything but it took me 15minutes to reset out neighbours AC unit because of their lack of spd.

Others will be much better at pointing out any finer details as I'm still very much a novice but one thing jumps out at me and that's voc with the two panels in parallel the voltage will likely be around the 30v mark, looking at the mppt SSC it only said that voc needs to be below 150v but no...

Great little setup Love those little GL.inet travel routers I've had a few, though no offence that looks like Opel which is junk compared to the other models. Edit: Maybe I should explain my junk comment, Gl.inet routers are typically based on open source router openwrt, the Opel is a openwrt...

Thing is she's the worse of both she's descended from a Irish slave master who at some point the family had to dip onto the local Jamaican gene pool and a Indian family that helped to British effectively cause mass genocide. I've got no problem with people being proud of their heritage but I...

Have you had a good look at the cable they've offered? Thai made cables normally have basic specifics as far as CSA and temp rating written on them though feeling how flexible they are I'd translate any data sheet to check alloy composition solid core feels like fine strand flex in the hand...

Water pipe typically has thinner wall as standard due to the water pressure keeping it rigid but thick wall can be purchased which as you pointed out is in essence identical.

Back to post 1 it's quite worrying to think how many DIY batteries in wooden boxes have been made with these Amazon fuses connected the same way as OP with steel washers between current carrying contacts, there's lots of YouTube videos on DIY batteries that wouldn't necessarily go into the finer...

Your probably a good person to ask Tim but are they ratcheting? Hypothetically of course when setting up my on-grid/hybrid I'm likely going to commission it then have them inspect post install if I did back feed would the meter run in reverse? Getting caught reversing the meter here is probably...

I should add hydronic or central heating is the primary source of heating for all UK homes we've been doing it this way for atleast 100years and some systems are still working after 100years but they were originally fitted with 2-3 cast iron pipes and large cast iron radiators diverter vales...

Whole thing seems sketchy to me, it's way too late now to carry on sleuthing but take a look at the below screenshots something screams conman to me. Notice the managing director. Then check the below attachments for his companies.

I'll translate I well versed in English. Hello wonderful forum members, Can you please explain to me what breaker and cable size I should use between a 304amp Seplos battery and a 8.8kw Sunsynk inverter?

Sorry I stand corrected lazada.ph is a minefield of junk best I could see was 560w jinko panels but a single is near $150, not posting a link as I don't know how to break it up from being affiliated therefore against rules.

I saw first hand how dangerous they are, well I heard the explosion and saw the aftermath it was running off a 18v panel charging a 12v 45ah Pb that was running a 12v fan here's what happened to the battery.

It's only about 8,000 250w panels

They have the side walls cut out on the one side it's a bit of work as you really have to use a reciprocating saw(disk cutter eats through disks) but it's not particularly hard to do.

Storage capacity is best worked out in Watt hours a single 3.4v 30ah cell gives roughly 100 Wh, by adding 4 identical cells in series gives you a 12v battery at 13.6v 30ah = 400Wh.

Dull aluminium didn't compute to oxide at the time I always hit cast or steel with a scotch disk before welding but I'd only turned down the piece in a lathe a few days before. It literally went from a 2 inch pipe with 3/8 wall to a puddle after poking it with a filler rod for 10 or 15 mins...

Yep makes more sense it's too late for me to try be inspector cluedo

Hey corporal canada just thought id let you know as im also in asia and many of the houses are constructed similarly in concrete, if the house has concrete beams on the corners you can take a ground from a screw driven into the steelwork supporting the roof above, these steel beams are normally...

Contrary to what ksmithaz1 said earlier large industrial earthing like this will likely have multiple paths to earth and they use stakeless testing where you test one rod at a time by inducing a voltage then recording the current flow. Single path as you said you drive in stakes and measure

Sorry offtopic but I have to say Dave Ramsey's advice only applies to a select few, for most of us his advice is terrible for anyone living in the real world.

So I'm also curious about this for sizing my arrays below is the spec sheet. I'm looking at 550W panels but they have the below specs: Vmp=41V Voc=49.85V Imp=13.42A Isc=14.12A From what I'm understanding I shouldn't worry about the amperage unless accidentally connecting reverse polarity, how...

https://forum.outbackpower.com/viewtopic.php?t=18446 might help as far as your charge controllers

Glad to hear just curious did you sort out the communication issues you had between battery and inverter?

Overcharge more than likely the cell was regularly topped up and although it was connected by a Thai man all the connections were taped to the point they could have prevented a 600v short using 16mm aluminium cable

Yep I already have a small list forming but it's all things like decent liquid PTFE and screwdriver blades I'm not really the type of expat who goes home to buy baked beans.

Lapping a washer...never thought of it but would likely give you the best results seems like holding the workpiece would be a pita though.

Lazada it's a South East Asian subsidy of alibaba

The dcs us owner Carl jonsson is listed as staff for dcs au so I'm inclined to believe hes full of shit and talking bollocks to you Will Edit; pics or it never happened Click the below link then check the people tab the profiles are private but he's using the same avatar...

Ditto never had a problem with dell stuff and proxmox, some issues with a hp server I tried once but that was purely problems with IOMMU other than that it's always worked great.

I don't do integrations at all I stick Purley to my own firmware/hardware all my inverters/charge controllers, metering, contactors, relays are purely esphome(important stuff via Poe) not sure how well the green can handle extensive loads I opted for a x86 server with plenty of ram all running...

Right I kinda understand but I run the x86 package via VM in proxmox anyway I'd say 1-10 Linux wise I'm a solid 2 maybe a 3 so I try to make this as straightforward as I can. I'm currently virtualizing my router (opnsense) also that's why I want to add more servers so I can go bare metal with...

Do they not print Daly on the 100balance in the US?

30%? Sorry where's this number? no humidity fair enough but 30% more sunshine? As far as I can tell were a good 15° closer to the equator.

I've seen something about using 2 victron orion-tr units in series to boost the alternator charge to 48v but the wattage seems to be only 750w there's likely better solutions out there and I'm sure others can comment but go big or go home seems to be the American way so go with the 48v

No no and at 3.3v it doesn't normally bite either

Hey all. Those with this Daly parallel system, how is it? Are you still using it? I have limited options here in Asia and Daly seems to be one of the better options so any info on your experiences would be great. I'm likely to use four Daly s-series 16s 250a bms's, would I go for the 15a...

The relay would only power the contactors and no current from the batteries would ever pass through them unless it was being stepped down to power the esp.

I use Home assistant and have done for years everything in the house is smart but with my own esphome firmware i have written, from irrigation, lights, sockets, air conditioning, power monitoring, to now my solar. Everything is connected to the main server and the only way to access it from...

If we needed more than the 3 mini splits we have in the house I would choose a central air system all day long, with modern insulated ducting zone control and so on I can see it being far superior to mini splits in every way, technology has moved on alot in 30 years so it's no wonder people...

So from the teardown we can say the fuse is of reasonable quality many of the really cheap Chinese ones don't even have a silica filler, looks to be brass unsure of copper/tin ratio but the ceramic jacket looks to be thick and the fuse links seem to angled in a way that would stop welding after...

This in the other hand is $680 and free delivery

I have copper formers and plenty of experience with bending steel and copper so for the sake of $5 worth of stainless I'll at least give it a go. I really don't want to use any fittings underground especially mechanical compression fittings.

Not even really available here in Asia as in even the brass is hard to find when you decide to make your own.

10mm² 2 core swa is 18mm overall diameter so maybe it's 6mm but without a code I'm not 100% The section just outside the house looked like a good length According to @SeaGal an MCB would be better to prevent nuisance tripping 👍

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You can over current but if your going for 6s2p on two strings with 450w panels your likely to cut off 2kw clipping as @littleharbor2 suggested just buy another SSC to add to the system.

No idea but post anything you find and I'm sure others can give you some suggestions It's not a couple of volts your talking less than 30ft with the correct cable your talking fractions of a volt Most larger modern day panels range from 30-50 voc. The little 18v 30w panels I have for...