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  1. Sanwizard

    What was your most interesting recent non solar project?

    Ahhh, now THAT is a good point! I have made it my passion to NEVER use ANY ethenol gas in ANY small engine devices. ETHENOL FREE ONLY! Run the carb dry before storing. Ever since I started doing that, all my tools start on first or second pull every time. I do love my battery operated DeWalt...
  2. Sanwizard

    What was your most interesting recent non solar project?

    Gas is a no brainer. Battery powered needs charging time, are more expensive, and usually not as powerful. In fact, as I found out yesterday, even gas power is not enough when cutting large oak trunks in a mill. (The mill uses a battery to move adjust the logs. The battery on that mill for...
  3. Sanwizard

    What was your most interesting recent non solar project?

    We did a few thousand pounds of White Oak, Cherry and Elm yesterday with this mobile mill. Kohler engine.
  4. Sanwizard

    What was your most interesting recent non solar project?

    Wow. Thats some next level work. All you need is the 50cal turret!
  5. Sanwizard

    Hail damage in Texas.

    On Long Island we had a utility called Long Island Lighting Company. The local politicians put them out of business when they tried to open a nuke plant to provide clean affordable power, and they "took over" the business for the "peoples sake", to keep prices low. They renamed it the Long...
  6. Sanwizard

    Seplos Mason DIY kit review (4/5)

    Just delete all the words, and it goes away.
  7. Sanwizard

    Confusion on meaning of Off Grid vs Grid-tie vs Zero Export

    Depends on budget, and the inverter type you choose. The absolute simplest and most cost effective is a generator with a manual transfer switch on the main panel. For a small off grid solar inverter with a few panels, you can treat it like a generator, but I would just use a seperate "critical...
  8. Sanwizard

    What was your most interesting recent non solar project?

    God bless you if you live in an area where freedoms still survive! Town permit offices in NYC are run like cartels.
  9. Sanwizard

    What was your most interesting recent non solar project?

    Cool shower base!(and car and boat engine). Doing a shower myself at the moment in a 300 year old house.
  10. Sanwizard

    What was your most interesting recent non solar project?

    I am sure you have all the proper permits, and a good architect to stamp the plans for approval, but as an FYI to make sure you dont have the same issue, I had to replace all my second story windows on a build we did on Long Island NY, because the inspector said they were a half inch too narrow...
  11. Sanwizard

    MPP LVX6048WP questions

    Nope. Off-grid mode 3. Seems to be a DC to AC conversion efficiency issue. I guess we get what we pay for.
  12. Sanwizard

    What was your most interesting recent non solar project?

    My neighbor and I are doing a project creating benches and tables to sell for wounded warrior project. Not only fun, but satisfying.
  13. Sanwizard

    Deciding to DIY my solar battery was one of my worst mistakes ever

    My Seplos Mason 280AH kits were around $400 shipped. I also lucked out and bought four of the complete 135AH kits (which included the cells) for $1000 each introductory offer rate.
  14. Sanwizard

    Deciding to DIY my solar battery was one of my worst mistakes ever

    I use a seperate BMS for each battery, so every cell is monitored, I can remove an entire battery for maintenance if needed, and I can mix battery sizes (like 135AH in parallel with 280AH) on the same busbar.
  15. Sanwizard

    Deciding to DIY my solar battery was one of my worst mistakes ever

    Love that skit. Is that from "Secret Policeman's Other Ball"?
  16. Sanwizard

    Deciding to DIY my solar battery was one of my worst mistakes ever

    Or you could just buy the cells you want, and purchase a vertical wall mount or horizontal server rack kit ( like a Seplos Mason) which includes the BMS and everything you need for a few hundred bucks plus shipping.
  17. Sanwizard

    Deciding to DIY my solar battery was one of my worst mistakes ever

    So weird. I started on PDP 11, was a Microsoft trainer, programmed in C++, played Atari and went through many quarters in the arcades, and me and my kids held halo tournaments on the home network, yet this is the first time I have come across the term Guru Meditation for a system error. Must...
  18. Sanwizard

    Deciding to DIY my solar battery was one of my worst mistakes ever

    For some reason, the information on this forum, along with all the very capable and caring people here, gave me the confidence to build my own. Will's youtube channel, along with others like Andy at offgridgarage also helped a lot. Your first DIY battery will NOT be less expensive than a...
  19. Sanwizard

    App or website for electrical drawings?

    You can try Microsoft Visio. I attached an example
  20. Sanwizard

    PV wire question

    Code in my area called for conduit both inside and out.
  21. Sanwizard

    PV wire question

    I would use two 10 gauge THHN wires, one red and one black. Then no worries when expanding.
  22. Sanwizard

    Shocked by Shed please help!

    Nope.
  23. Sanwizard

    MPP LVX6048WP questions

    I just noticed that the LVX6048WP's seem to need 1KW to support around a half KW of load. Anyone else notice this? Or is Solar Assistant giving me wrong data...
  24. Sanwizard

    "Why I think it is illogical to purchase an electric truck"

    I dont agree with the "outlook" of this chart going out to 2026, as many manufacturers are shutting down EV lines. As for batteries, hopefully Salt based, or hydrogen based vehicles will fix some of it.
  25. Sanwizard

    "Why I think it is illogical to purchase an electric truck"

    Get rid of ethanol, and grow FOOD instead!
  26. Sanwizard

    Moving Company for Shipping LiFePo4

    Hillary gave away the plutonium, and the nerve gas was used in the labs as an element to create and distribute the corona virus.
  27. Sanwizard

    Seems MPP dropped a new inverter...a split phase 10KW

    Water proof. More outdoor friendly. Mine are in a three sided enclosure with a roof, but out in the elements with wind and rain. The problem with the WP units were they shipped with bad firmware, which defaulted to 240V OUTPUT LIVE on the GEN INPUT connections( very dangerous). A firmware update...
  28. Sanwizard

    LVX6048WP Setup Issues and Warning Codes

    Sounds like your on the right track. Let us all know what happens, as I think you have the largest LVX6058WP install so far of any on this forum!
  29. Sanwizard

    LVX6048WP Setup Issues and Warning Codes

    My inverters are version one hardware and thw old firmware, so it may be best to get assistance from MPP for your grid tie only settings and why you are getting errors. Use the latest MPP Solar Power software on a connected PC to change the settings. (The mobile app seems to have limits)...
  30. Sanwizard

    LVX6048WP Setup Issues and Warning Codes

    Ian is correct. Off grid needs a battery. Thanks for the pic of your solution, as it clears up a lot. I can see why there may be moisture. I hope you have a shed or something to put over the inverters. Although they are labled WP, I would not trust them with full exposure to wind driven rain...
  31. Sanwizard

    LVX6048WP Setup Issues and Warning Codes

    Oh, and make sure your not super charging your batteries. With SIX inverters, the manual calls for 1200ah. So around 1 battery per inverter. If you have fewer, drop the max charge current to around 30amps or less per inverter.
  32. Sanwizard

    LVX6048WP Setup Issues and Warning Codes

    Each battery has two positive and two negative terminals. I am assuming they are similar to my Seplos boxes, and they are connected by a busbar internally. This means you can use 4 cables per battery(2 x pos and 2 x neg) to the blue sea busbar. I would NOT remove the terminal to pull a cable...
  33. Sanwizard

    LVX6048WP Setup Issues and Warning Codes

    Looks to me like your 6 inverters are pulling too much current from your battery connections. The supplied cables may not have been properly crimped. Note that instead of swapping the existing terminals, you can just add another cable connection to each battery to your parallel busbar. I...
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