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I just purchased parts to build an 24 v 8s 50ah pack, same watt hours as that battery, for twice the price.

I would install overcurrent protection in the form of a class t fuse as close to the battery as possible. Do you know of that is a pure sine wave inverter and if not can your electronics handle that? I do not see that selling point listed.

I would check the site prior to ordering. I used to get scams through Facebook with deals from websites created that day or the day before. Sometimes so cheap I want to order it to see if it’ll come in,

I’d like to add solarreviews.com to the list, To be added. The company needs to be in business for 5 years.

For planning prior to tax rebate: -5 kw of panels installed $10k -each ac draws 4 kw when running. This could be as low as 2.5 kw -each ac will require 6-9 kw of panels to provide enough power to run it, only when the sun shines, I am in AZ, not that different from you. My AC cycles on 20...

They were #2 on my list last year to do my install. I’m glad there was another installer I preferred locally. At the time, sun power had a rather good rating on solarreviews.com. They’re supposed to be one of the few companies who have been around long enough to actually be in business when...

6 panels on a 75/15 is good if you want to max it out all day. I have 9 x 100 watt panels hooked 3s3p to a 75/15 at 24 volts. I see a lot of 15 amp charging with a max of 420 watts charging. 3 point east, 3 point west, and three point south.

If a 12 volt system stem, 3P may work.

Lose this battle. Ditch the solar generator. Move on. You will never make her happy with that solar generator there.

You may try that question on the filedlines forum: https://www.fieldlines.com/index.php?board=5.0 They are the most active for other than solar renewable energy I have found. Still not a lot of participants. I can't tell you anything you haven't tried.

How many amps will go through this? The ampacity of the wire drives this. Each of my two batteries have a Class 125 amp T fuse, with a 225 amp Class T fuse after combined. I would fuse all five battteries seperately. Unless you want to buy a cheaper AILI shunt to put in the less important...

These are my settings for a 50 ah 24 volt pack After charging and the SCC enters float, I want it to keep up with loads. I started at 26 volts and slowly went up so that if I had a 250 watt load, the panels would provide power. A float too low would lead to the panels not providing enough...

How much wattage of solar panels do you have? I need at least 2200 watts of panels to cover loads like you mentioned but in the shorter days of the year, I have put 2500 wats of panels out and its not enough. When I run my AC I get 89% efficiency: Watts From Battery: 1650 Watts From Inverter...

This is leading me to believe the battery is dead or the BMS is receiving no current from the battery. Checking battery voltage at the battery terminals will confirm a dead battery. When I set my BMS up on my big battery pack, I mis wired it and my BMS was reading completely off. Recommend...

To me that is exactly what you want. No reason to justify if you're happy. I am in an area that I can go boondocking. I can either drive 30 minutes from my house and get to state trust land and park and camp where I want, but in a city of 6 million people, in that state trust land I do have...

I think you have things just the way you want them.

IMO, your batteries and solar are not big enough to power your air conditioner, so the move you're describing won't matter for cooling. Heating will be fine in the master bedroom provided the heating is propane. Electric heat has the same power as the electric air conditioner. In another post...

A lot of work and thanks for the data. Knowing SOH now, will you use these?

I got two 8 position busbars. Three studs are for SCCs, another the inverter, another stud for the charger, another stud for the dc to dc converter, and another stud for a 24 VDC Line.

Running a single AC off solar while boondocking in the day could be sustainable, but difficult and expensive and involve a ground mount. Running two ACs while boondocking would not be sustainable boondocking. This would involve a ground mount that makes it homesteading. Running a single AC...

10 X 450 watt panels will take up at least every bit of roof space on a 45' RV, so one or two trailers can be done based mostly on where you're going to store this. Honestly though, going through this much effort might as well either make this grid tied or hook it through a critical loads panel...

I wonder why he did that.

North facing orientations happens a bit in my neighborhood with larger installs after all the south, east and west areas are filled up. Small lots, perhaps 10k sq feet with no way to ground mount, gabled roofs, with not a lot of room for panels with a south facing orientation. Not as horrible...

The ve.direct has an option for settings in the inverter. Could be good to check those. Although I have 1200 VA and 375 VA model of the inverter you have, I have never connected VE direct and mine runs fine.

Appears the picture the seller chose as the cover picture has rust on the stud. There’s some other things that make me think it’s not as good as blue sea like the fuse and lug attach to the same stud and looks like a larger lug may not fit.

There is no practical way to do all what you're asking for. You can come a lot closer to a break even point if you make this a permitted grid tied install. -You can get a solar powered EG4 air conditioner. -You could build an unpermitted EV charger and put that in your garage. -Going off...

Can't say this is to code, but I would put this on a busbar with the 10 AWG on one side and 6 AWG on the other in an enclosed container. What I have done to to make a 10 AWG --> 6 AWG connection for a 900 watt panel run, is fold the 10 AWG over and insert it to a 6 AWG butt crimp, and put the 6...

I don't see how you could offer off grid EV charging for an Air BnB customer in any affordable fashion. I would plan on 350 wH per mile for vehicle charging, and driving 100 miles a day, so 35 kWh of power per EV vehicle per day. Doesn't matter if this power is delivered at 1.4 kw per hour...

When in stock, these Lion Energy panels are what I use. I have 9 of them. On any portable panel, Glass should fold out. This keeps something from getting stuck between the glass when folded and latched. Glass out allows the cables to get stored on the inside. Whatever this glasis mode of is...

How much extra power do you think will be produced in this area same amount of area?

Not the OP, but mini-splits won’t work to replace central AC ins some circumstances. Just leaves out the smaller rooms where a duct could be run for central AC. I am considering a minisplit with four heads to replace my central AC for four rooms. There’s actually three rooms that wouldn’t...

You may find stacking lugs on the shunt hard. I found dealing with thick wires with strong batteries much harder to manipulate than the smaller 10 AWG wires. I ended up using two 8 stud busbars on my power distribution. I wish I had one more

I would take the wires in the PWM out and join the new panel in parallel with a “y” cable. These y cables come with MC4. If the PWM controller had more than one input, I’d connect the other panel. How you docables is really based off it the panel will connect correctly.

Best guess is the inverter was overloaded based off what the manual says. https://www.victronenergy.com/upload/documents/Manual-Inverter-VE.Direct-250VA-1200VA-EN-NL-FR-DE-ES-IT.pdf I have a smaller and larger version of that inverter and I have not seen the condition you describe.

Pictures of the panel will help. I use lion energy suitcase panels and made cables for those for 3S3P. Unlike my lion energy, the Renogy has a SCC attached to the panel. May be easier removing the SCC.