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    Information on battery isolators?

    I’m looking to charge two 45 ah batteries 2s along with my two strings of 40ah from my lv24/24 hybrid . Is it possible to isolate these two batteries and tie my battery heater to them down stream of the isolator . Also what about the negative side would that also have to be isolated ? Is one...
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    How does your inverter deal with ground.

    From what I’m seeing, I should take the grounding lug to my earth ground . Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this forum. Your my go to guy for straight information
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    LiFePO4 heating pad for cold temperatures

    Man I suck at this forum stuff sorry
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    LiFePO4 heating pad for cold temperatures

    Very interested in the micro controller your using I just finished my battery box and will definitely want to heat it. [ off grid ny Adirondacks] also any information on how you are powering
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    MPP Solar Operating Temps?

    Thanks for the help guys
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    MPP Solar Operating Temps?

    Thanks Lt.Dan, going up tomorrow forgo start the build . I’ve got my panels up ,conduit run and heated battery boxes built . So it go time!
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    MPP Solar Operating Temps?

    Apparently most of the all in one inverter / charge controllers don’t operate at low temperatures. My point was , is it the inverter that doesn’t like the cold temps or the charge controller. I won’t be using the inverter side of my lv24/24 very much . On this unit you can shut the power switch...
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    MPP Solar Operating Temps?

    On the cold weather AIOproblem. Does this problem exist if the unit is turned off and just running dc from battery? Obviously it would need to charge batteries at these same cold temps . Assuming battery temperature problem is solved, has anyone tried it in cold weather with inverter off?
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    Need a little help

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    Need a little help

    I’m now planning on using some of these valence batteries in my system now I acquired 20 or so from a job , but the genius’s that were using them depleted them to the point of no return. I was able to bring 7 back to life . I’ll use six in my system 2s3p. I know several people talked about...
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    Need a little help

    Top notch! Thanks
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    Need a little help

    Thanks man , I was afraid I was going to hear crickets on my post . I’ll probably just use# 2 awg welding lead on all of those 1/0 areas cause I have a bunch of it at the shop . Same with the # 8 s , got a ton of it from a job . The input on the battery to mpp breaker was big medicine. I really...
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    Need help understanding my solar set up !

    I don’t mean to jump in your thread , however I am looking for a good fused / breaker disconnect to isolate and protect my all in one lv24/24 unit . Link was to French site . Just started in forum not sure if this was rude
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    Need a little help

    The moose showed up after I finished the panels , he was no help
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