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SRNE 12kW IP65 HES and 10kW ASP

Ill be first on your list if you ever want to get rid of the ASF! 🤓
I'll keep that in mind but I'll likely keep it, I can make good use of the additional MPPTS when I decide to add another array. I will be posting a TP6048 / LVX6048 eventually but I'll probably try to offload it on CL / marketplace first to make some more money...
 
I need to stop being such a pessimist...
Left work early to help my brother with his upright freezer that took a shit...
Was mixing up some sevin to feed the bugs feasting on the garden and DHL pulled in the driveway.
Boxes had some rips and tears but packaging is just as solid as the ASF.
When I grabbed the box off the truck I thought to myself the ASP box was heavier than the ASF box, it is by a little.

The ASP is a different shade of white than the ASF. The parallel cables sure look like VGA cables to me, wish I had an old monitor somewhere.

FedEx also delivered the 5' 6"x6" trough. I don't have any excuses for not getting started on them this weekend. Hopefully I'll have them up and running by the end of the month, and hit 5MWh on the ASF before that.
Mounting them will be easy, it's all the other stuff that's gonna be a pita, rebuilding the battery rack out of steel and all the fun that goes with that will be the most time consuming part.

Anyway, enough rambling...
you have a sickness friend. i see crypto mining in your future
 
you have a sickness friend. i see crypto mining in your future
If I had a reliable hardwired internet connection available I would probably already be dabbling in it.
Soon enough I'll have a lightbulb moment for making use off all the power available. Getting another indoor grow tent going is towards the top of my list, no I'm not referring to magic lettuce; username doesn't check out 😂
 
Looks the same as my LV6548 ports. Those work just fine.

If these work, I don't care what cable it is. Believe it or not, I still run some laptops with serial ports for certain applications.
I don't think anyone really cared which cable it was, it was just funny that china didn't even know which one it was.
Display cables generally have better quality than a lot of stuff. If we used as crap cabling that is used in just general electrical we would have lots of interference thus people would cry about their screens looking terrible.
Usually it's shielded too.
The ASP is a different shade of white than the ASF. The parallel cables sure look like VGA cables to me, wish I had an old monitor somewhere.
I have one, but what do you think it'd do other than blow the monitor up? lol
We have like 5 of the monitors actually, some servers are starting to have display port but still pretty much all of the motherboards from $600-1500 are still having VGA..


How long you think before you have it hooked up and running?


also just curious is that entire thing painted underneath that ground?
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I have one, but what do you think it'd do other than blow the monitor up? lol
We have like 5 of the monitors actually, some servers are starting to have display port but still pretty much all of the motherboards from $600-1500 are still having VGA..
Haha, I didn't intend to hook it up, just compare the cable.
How long you think before you have it hooked up and running?
Hopefully by the end of the month.
also just curious is that entire thing painted underneath that ground?
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Great observation, I'll check next time I'm downstairs working. I hope not.
 
Got off my ass and went to check a couple things.
Cleaning of paint underneath ground is pretty piss poor in my opinion and I was easily able to loosen it, to easily...
This lead me to check the screws for AC and PV connections. Before and after tightening is what I'm showing if the picks load correctly, I'm irritated. I've never had an issue with the ASF, I honestly can't remember if I checked them before installation.
PSA - check connections for tightness.

6AWG THHN is no problem, it wouldn't fit with the insulation on. I don't have any 4AWG, actually I have some battery cable somewhere...

I can see the pics didn't load correctly, righty tighty, they will make sense.

Ps I put the hot in the neutral intentionally 😉
 

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Got off my ass and went to check a couple things.
Cleaning of paint underneath ground is pretty piss poor in my opinion and I was easily able to loosen it, to easily...
This lead me to check the screws for AC and PV connections. Before and after tightening is what I'm showing if the picks load correctly, I'm irritated. I've never had an issue with the ASF, I honestly can't remember if I checked them before installation.
PSA - check connections for tightness.

6AWG THHN is no problem, it wouldn't fit with the insulation on. I don't have any 4AWG, actually I have some battery cable somewhere...

I can see the pics didn't load correctly, righty tighty, they will make sense.

Ps I put the hot in the neutral intentionally 😉
Looks to me that 4 gauge would easily fit.
On the other side of the terminal blocks, are those terminals crimped and soldered?
 
would be interested in how your inverter compares to the SunGoldPower SPH10048P

It’s the same unit
 
Looks to me that 4 gauge would easily fit.
On the other side of the terminal blocks, are those terminals crimped and soldered?
I'll double check, I'm pretty sure they are just tinned copper only crimped.
It’s the same unit
But the sungold is a victorniously looking blue 😉
 
If I had a reliable hardwired internet connection available I would probably already be dabbling in it.
Soon enough I'll have a lightbulb moment for making use off all the power available. Getting another indoor grow tent going is towards the top of my list, no I'm not referring to magic lettuce; username doesn't check out 😂
Starlink. Had it for years, works out in the sticks in the USA, lol. I have 2 miners, and I just ordered 4 more, so 21kw of miners.
 
So what's a miner cost and how much can you make in a day /miner. In other words, ROI?
Well........ After the latest halving of bitcoin, not so much in return, lol. Cost is $250 a piece for the used older ones I bought. I use them to heat my shop in the winter so that is a added benefit to me. Right now if electricity cost is free (solar) mine will make $3.00 per day each.
 
Well........ After the latest halving of bitcoin, not so much in return, lol. Cost is $250 a piece for the used older ones I bought. I use them to heat my shop in the winter so that is a added benefit to me. Right now if electricity cost is free (solar) mine will make $3.00 per day each.
Using it on and off as there is excess solar (which most of the winter there is not, I have currently made $550 dollars with the 2 miners I have, and heated my shop.
 
Haha, I didn't intend to hook it up, just compare the cable.
ahhh well all VGA display is 1-1 wired, in other words it's entirely "straight through" no pin crosses to different pin
so if theres is like that (I'm sure it is) then it should be same thing
Cleaning of paint underneath ground is pretty piss poor in my opinion and I was easily able to loosen it, to easily...
At least the screw looks like it is welded into/onto the case? so that has good connection
and then the nut transfers that "good connection" to the terminal.. not perfect but "good enough"
My worry was it was some through bolt and the entire hole was painted so it had almost no connection lol

Using it on and off as there is excess solar (which most of the winter there is not, I have currently made $550 dollars with the 2 miners I have, and heated my shop.
hey not bad, I tell people that too, might as well run their computers in the winter because you're already heating the house and the "waste heat" is definitely better than spending money on only heat
 
Unless a toothed washer is used.
We specify that for anodized aluminum. Would work for paint too.
You'd never want such a washer in current-carrying path, but it helps for safety ground path.
 
i...is it s...setup yet?
No. The weather has been way to nice to be inside working.....
I got the sungold off the wall and figured out how I'll be laying them out. I have about 5.5' of wall space to work with.
Got some copper ordered from Zoro for the battery rack bus bars, 20' of 2/0 from Temco, went on a mini shipping spree at Palmetto and got my brother's pool open.

I'll stop at HD or the electrical supply shop and pick up some 6AWG and 2AWG along with conduit fittings after work this week.
I'm going to make the battery rack ~5' wide - 2' deep and tall enough to hold 2 layers of cells for a total capacity of 6 packs.
 

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The suspense is killing me, I'm already extending my concrete wall getting ready <_<
I buy all my wire from temco too, just got their cement vibrator tool.
Cute dogs, when we had a pool the only ones using it were the dogs too lmao

Forgot to ask weeks ago, do you know what kinda grid bypass they allow? Like if the battery is under a certain percentage they'll just pass through the grid power type of thing?
I saw the 6000XP has some better form of that or something, now in the middle of the question I forgot what was better about it vs the older ones...
 
Cute dogs, when we had a pool the only ones using it were the dogs too lmao
🤣 If it weren't for the dogs and girlfriend he would have already filled it in with the SV95S...
Forgot to ask weeks ago, do you know what kinda grid bypass they allow? Like if the battery is under a certain percentage they'll just pass through the grid power type of thing?
You can program in a low voltage or low SOC (if using comms) to switch to grid, you can also program back to inverter / battery setpoints.
 

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