Brucey
Solar Wizard
With just the Trophies to communicate with the gx mk1 should be fine.Figuresā¦the day I order my Cerbo GX![]()
With just the Trophies to communicate with the gx mk1 should be fine.Figuresā¦the day I order my Cerbo GX![]()
Yeah it will be.With just the Trophies to communicate with the gx mk1 should be fine.
Yeah but..........Thats bad math. Kinda like saying Diet coke causes obesity cause you only see fat people drinking it.I sold my jeep (cost me about $600/mo in just gas) and bought a tesla. I then bought 30kwh of eg4ll batteries, 2 eg4 6500ex inverters and 12x450 watt solar panels with the intention of using the money I saved on gas to pay for the system. Shortly after powering up the eg4 6500ex, I immediately hated everything about them; loud, runs REALLY hot, inefficient, 120/240v split phase kept losing sync with each other, and the software/solar assistant was just trash imo compared to VRM. I got rid of the 6500 ex and replaced them with 2x 5000va multi plus II and 1x smart solar 250/100. It cost me a little less than 2x as much as the 2 eg4ll. In total i spent about $11k for the initial set up but ended up at about $14k after the swap. (I have victron energy systems on my rv and loved the). The full system has been up for about 3 months now and I have been having to work on weekend, meaning driving more. I have saved around $2500 in gas so far by solar charging my car instead of gas for my jeep. So since my victron system was built to replace gas, and not the grid, the system will effectively be paid off by next year and every mile I drive after that will be "free." Sure, I could have charged from the grid and still saved a good majority of that, but then I wouldn't have my hobby/back up power when I lose power.
That would be an outlier. What proportion of Honda Civic's with 300,000+ miles have not needed repairs?now have 300k on car and going strong with ZERO repairs.
The Driven first reported on Nigel Raynard in July 2021 when the odometer on his Model S passed the 400,000 km mark, already a huge milestone with the original brake pads lasting much longer than most ICE vehicles. Nigel recently had the vehicleās second battery pack installed and is now on his second set of brake pads which should be good for another 200,000 km.I guess if we are looking for outliers:
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Australian Tesla clocks 700,000 km, still saving $20,000 a year in service and fuel costs
An Australian Tesla owner has driven over 700,000 km in his 2018 Model S, and says heās saving around $20,000 per year on fuel and maintenance costs. The Driven first reported on Nigel Raynard in July 2021 when the odometer on his Model S passed the 400,000 km mark, already a huge milestone with...acapmag.com.au
Replaced the battery at 666,666km under warranty.
OK, that's all OT.
3 out of 5 of my vehicles have over 200k miles on them. One Chevy and 2 Toyotas. Not an extreme outlier imo.That would be an outlier. What proportion of Honda Civic's with 300,000+ miles have not needed repairs?
honestly old cars are easier to tinker with and we maintain them better due to nostalgia... who wants to work on a 2022 car of any make?Our youngest car is twice that age. Next couple are about 28 years. Others are 70+ (admittedly not daily driver, although one was in 2009.)
Motorcycle is 60.
But then, I'm not average.
"I think old cars just last longer."
Here in NY state vehicles that are 25 years or older have a much easier annual inspection process. My work truck is a 98 k1500. We have couple of 99 suburbans, a 94 k2500 etc. Why spend tens of thousands when you can pick one up for under $1000 (they will need frame welding after that many years with salt treated winter roads).honestly old cars are easier to tinker with and we maintain them better due to nostalgia... who wants to work on a 2022 car of any make?
Nobody...
Very clean setup! Do you have a link to the enclosure?I'm finally "done" my remote off grid set up and can officially join team blue:
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With very limited space to mount components, Victron gives you a ton of flexibility. One thing I sort of regret is not going with the 5K Multiplus, because I think I had enough room for it, even if I don't really need it for the loads I need to power. One happy accident was that I ordered the grey Vevor enclosure, but they sent me the orange one -- but the orange matches the Victron orange.
Those are city folk numbers not country numbers. If you live out of the city like here in Idaho, the town is 54 miles each way. If we drive somewhere we can easily put on 300 in a day. If we buy something off craigs its always out of town and we can drive 4-800 miles. Farm animals can be 3-600 miles away. Good deals on grain (2-3 tons) can be 450 miles out RT. Life living in the country isnt cheap. Most trucks for sale here have 250K+ on them. Most cars have 200k+. City folks that drive 3 miles to work wont understand.Average age of "light" vehicles in the US is 12.6 years. The average annual mileage according to the US Federal Highway Administration is ~13,500. So that's approximately 170,000 miles.
Anything double that age or mileage is a statistical outlier, right out at the shallow end of the bell curve.
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We changed out our old "lights dimming in the city" well pump to a grunfos sq and it only pulls 10a to start and 10a to run under load. Its a slow start pump and it changed everything for us. No need to have a 12k inverter to get the well pump started.A little blue to bring in the long weekend for us non Euro heathens...
Still stunned by the 48/1200 and its capabilities. I have upstairs fridge/freezer, tv, wfh setup, internet/nas and two downstairs freezers connected and I'm just idling around 500W. I run that pass thru to the Delta 2 max. If I need to run air fryer or toaster or other larger load I unplug the AC input cord from the 48/1200, and d2m switches to its internal battery and gives me up to 2400W. Once high load is done I plus d2m back in, and it will charge at load+200W (minimum charge level in ecoflow app). At this point the utility could shut me off and I'd be good to go for a couple days (exception being well pump and central AC which are 240v). working on the AC portion by adding an LG inverter window 8000 BTU unit. Added the series Redodo minis last night, at 15kWh now and 17.5kWh once I make an additional pair of cables.
Offsetting about 30% of consumption but that was with very low loads earlier on will need another month to get true numbers aiming for 50% as next step. all big loads are propane powered which helps a lot.
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I drive 8, but I fully understand, we live in the UK, and to drive from the bottom to the top of the country is around 750 miles, so in reality everything is in easy reach (although the traffic is awful), although some parts the going is much slower, but there are some areas that are very sparsely populated.City folks that drive 3 miles to work wont understand.
Do you have a link to the enclosure?
Those are not "city folk" numbers, they are national averages. Of course there are some who get higher mileage / vehicle age, and equally there are just as many who get lower mileage / vehicle age. It's a normal distribution (speaking both colloquially and statistically).Those are city folk numbers not country numbers.