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After syncing, I read the manual several times, but the feature was not thoroughly explained. I ordered the direct cables that evening and posted a question on Victron to ensure I was not overlooking something. Snoobler responded to my question on the victron community. Put two on direct and...

I have them in every combiner box per string; I put breakers on all the single 6s arrays but wanted to research to research if that is sufficient.

I found these unistrut mounts on Amazon and decided to test them by laying the panels out just to be sure. I need to cut a small extension for the unistruts as well, but I can fit all 30 panels in the last spot on the side.

Let them rest yesterday and set it to float at 54v this morning, but I must pull apart cell 4. The top bank second picture is in better shape.

I'm also doing that since I'm rewiring the panels. I decided the breakers were too expensive to replace multiple times. Now I have fuses in all the combiners, which are simple and much less expensive.

Right at 60kWh, with these two it will make 6 in total.

I sat with the new banks for some time, watching them charge. The bottom bank had the largest delta in cell volts, no loose screws, and verified with the meters. Since it was 128, charging one per day would take too long. I am considering how to continue charging; charging is off, and I will...

I just figured it out, I went to make a test profile and that was replicated across all the controllers. There was a late night firmware update for the cerbo. As I had not made any changes to the victron units at all in the last two days. After the firmware update the two mppts were synced to...

Hit the first issue with a victron, it's been doing well the past few days. I noticed it was getting close to the full on the watchman; the 450 never slowed down as the m8's went into bypass. There is no error/alarm in the history; I even set everything to 48v, which still ramps to 100 percent.

I finished all the final touches on the arrays after dark, It's already over 19kw this morning, so that is not too bad. Going to start marking the location for the following 30 panels today.

I'm still installing and working on everything, but this is what it looks like so far.

I finally made another ethernet cable to have the 3rd victron up in vrm. I do not see a way to make separate panels for each one. Does seem like you would need a cerbo for each one, I guess? I saw I can add the victron shunt to the cerbo so I may try that. I have a spare watchman and shut, but I...

That is very nice, I wish the flat land was closer. I would have really liked to have long arrays in that fashion. I do have a flat, but it's all 220+ feet from the house.

In the thread, one person talks about over-paneling: "The ISC is with 27,62A over the limit."

That is a fascinating read; I am about 1/2 through the thread. Just finished wiring the panels up and checking all of them. I got two pallets to install and make a small 7-8 panel array for the mini split.

I was planning to run it in parallel on two inputs, but I have been thinking of different ideas for the following 30 panels. It would be easy to do two 6s2p, but I could put them all up from the next pallet. As the sun sets, I'm leaning towards the bottom row a 6s and the next 4 rows above into...

I wanted to double-check my math at midnight; 6s3p is too much for parallel on the victron.

That is super impressive, I curious to see what the amps will be for everything. Since I'm going up in voltage on every array I wonder if I will see any reductions.

We have almost finished adding the fifth panel to each row; after this, we will have 105 panels. Then, I will have lots more work as I need to do three more arrays and probably still have issues in the winter. I'm looking for anyone who loves solar and enjoys long hours of pay-free hard work.

I was initially shocked by how much they can reduce solar; we've had two storms midday where the growatt mppts clicked off. We are running the heat today and most likely tomorrow; it's cold for this time of the year.

I'm trying to take time and have more reasonable arrays for all the mppts, considering the expense of the updates. But I'm happy with everything so far as monitoring is so helpful.

Sun came out and the victron connected to the new banks is doing 75.4 amps from a 6s2p. Which is excellent. That is excellent, here's what the 450/200 did with only a 6s2p to charge new banks.

I got the 3rd victron online and converted the last two arrays into 6s2p. Using one of those on the Victron to charge the new banks. Next, I need to convert two arrays to 5s3p and build two more 5s3p or 6s3p / 6s2p. I need to measure again but I might be able to fit panels vertically in rows of six.

I missed that in the video; the wife kept asking many questions about the installation. If they do not have a wood/pellet stove, I would believe they use quite a bit of diesel.

I'm surprised, based on location, that the batteries and solar are sufficient for winter weather conditions.

I'm unsure; I wanted 30 panels on each one. The math is 48.7 * 10.14 * 15 = 7407.27, which I would divide between two inputs. That would be 30.51 amps, with the two inputs having 36 amps on the victron.

I spent the day working on changing arrays and cleaning up lots of wire that was no longer needed. I removed midnite combiner boxes that were not required since I needed 4- 6s. I spent the evening working on the two victrons and mounting the 3rd. I finished the harness and got the second BMS...

I discussed wrapping those in a previous post since the two-hole adapters put them closer together than the older style. Here's the delta between the old and new, showing their differences. I will work on addressing that today. I also wanted to add the busbars are the same length between the...

I'm hoping to finish up on the batteries today, I've been waiting on more wire.

Here are some pictures of the Daly bms.

The BMS arrived today and was very easy to install because of all the work with the m4s.

I spent most of the day on wiring outside and then after dark removed the last of the growatts and mounted the second victron. The cerbo immediately detected it, and the firmware updates quickly and easily. I like that it can scan all the devices and update from one interface.

I'm playing around with the Cerbo, got it connected, and looked through the remote console, which has many functions and VRM. My phone shows all four mppts, but it is not doing so on VRM; maybe tomorrow when it is online.

They ran most of the day; it stayed between 5400 and the highest, 6051w. I could not hear it all over the growatts running.

Size comparison to the 120amp growatts.