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heres what i have, 4---3.2 volt in series to make 12 volts, but they, but hey are only 25a hours each, so i wanted o add a 3.2 volt, 45 ah battery in paralell to the last battry to up the ahours, any problem doing it like this

so i 3rd of a day on 50ah

im noy getting in touch with utility, this is on my own,trial and error, can only have 2 panels on shed roof, have to hide

fridge,couple lights, lights are led, maybe 15 wats,maybe tv. tv should be about 150 watts,, my fridge uses according to killowatt meter fridge uses 140 watts,,1.3 amps when running,fridge uses 1.96 kwh in 24 hours

thanks, thats what i thought, looking for 12 volts total for a inverter,power out emergency only

ok, seing as i have 8-batteries, 25ah each, i suppose i could wire 2 in parralel, then wire 4x2 packs in series and that would give me 50 ah i think

if i run in parralel first i raise amp hours, or just wire in series to get my 12 volts and not worry about it, power out emergency only

well it doesnt matter but 4,1 gets reveresed,so 3neg, and then 1 positive, how do battery packs charge properly when the pos and neg are reversed on the same end to add voltage,when you look at some battery packs,both the pos and neg have a strap across them and spot welded to increase voltage

ok,lets say im building packs from 18650 cells,, so i reverse one to get 12 volts,now when i charge what happens to the 2 thats reversed,ill have a neg on the pos end, will this work, i see a lot of packs built in things like this, especially laptop batteries, and medical stuff

ok, so the output would only be what the panel is outputting, so in a cloudy day i may only get 100 watts output,it just will never go over the 200 watt panel max

ok,hyper thetical question, lets say i have a 200 watt panel. and a 400 watt micro inverter, 220 volt out put, line 1 and line 2 with neutral. all other aside from loss, sun,ect, does a micro inverter put out 200 watts per line if i am only putting 200 watts, will my inverter put out 200 watts...

may have to forget about all of this, like my ex boss said, if the utility even sees a reverse flow or feedback for a split second, even if the belt just slips on the cooler pulley, for a micro second, the utility will see it and know somethings up, and like he said, techniclly it might work...

kinda yes, that thread got to long and to many rude and irrelevant omments, read this,read that, dont know what im doing ect, so i gave up on it and i believe i asked will to deelete it, but i have changed a few things and a few pices of the install after i been reading like everybody wanted me...

thanks, i was looking at their site and couldnt find any pdfs to read or download,

ok, what if i connected the ac lines to the bottom of the panel phases,by a 240 breaker, would it be simple to assume that thwe little extra would flowinto the swamp cooler or anything else and boost the current so the appliance uses it most or all be fore it even gets to the main breaker out...

in case some of you arnt sure what im talking about, this mico inverter put out 240 volt, it connects under panel,you can see the mc4 connectors, then the ac out cable, my thinking is this a 240 line out would give me lets ay 150 watts on each line, so i could have 150 watts on left phase, and...

good thing it only happened once at that jolt, now my worry is my cancer, not my heart LOL

yup, i was an electrician also and solar installer, i was working on a stsytem and had the 3 strings disconnected, but the last string where the problem was, i unhooked the pos wire, and had it in my left hand,with gloves, held tight,just on the casing,no bare wire, but it was ghot, and i was...

thanks hedges for getting it, and for all others for commenting also,not trying to argue,but some posts are not pertinent

have that one saved in my list as stated here already and above, a grid tie inverter can not backfeed when grid is down, so all this about lineman is useless, doesnt matter,,thats what i was looking for, and what im planning on doing,just enough 120 voltage to outweigh my on peak charge,which...

ive been bit a couple times when checking out systems when i was an installer, didnt vbother me

ok,maybe i missed it

no,it shows him connecting a femaile plug and using an extension cord,since it is 120 volt only, micro inverters have a trunk cord with no end or a facotory adaptor

actually a true suicide cord has a male end on both ends,this would be very dagerous,but if i used a standard extention cord from inverter side,the cord would be safe, no batterys used now, so no back feading grid when its down so no electricuting anybody, thanks for posting, i just realized i...

exactly what i was thinking also, i can get rid of the battery since the grid is up,Duhhhhh,just hook 1 or 2 panels to grid tie inverter,then use the cord from inverter to go to plug that cooler is plugged into, also, i dont know if the panels will have enough power to start the capacitor or motor

quick video on what im talking about

ok,kwh daily runs between 15 to 20, off peak and then about 5 kwh at on peak,higher cost, from 3pm until 6 pm,hottest part of the day so to speak here in az,plus my sons ac is running off and on in his bedroom since hes home,hes looking for work,which is higher i understand that but if i could...

my mistake, maybe 2 dollars a day, i was looking at dollar usage, ill have to checkmy bill to see if it shows kwh usage

looking at my bill, mostly i am getting chsrged $2 kwh all the time unless from 3-6 pm when it is 2.25 up to 3$ kwh,some days between 3and 4 dollars kwhwhen the cooler is on longer,or my wife turns it to high speed,thats why ithought a little boost from a panel might help

thanks, im not trying to get my money back,i really dont even care about that,i just want my bill lower so my payment is lower but i see your point,utiliyu doesnt even have to change my meter and read it,i dont care,like your saying, 5 bucks a month isnt worth it,to much hassle, i was thinking a...

I forgot to mention in a mobile home also, so my main panel is in my house, and it is not a bonded system because its actually a sub panel since the main is on the pedestal under the meter,maybe i can make myself an installer since i was a solar installer and i can tell the electric copmany i...

if the grid goes down the inverter is off so no danger to line man,and my little 2-400 watts wont hurt a lineman anyway, if hes dealing with morwe voltage than that ok, ill look into that,the reason im thinking this is because im fighting cancer and only have a ss xcheck to pay everything,,and...

ok,lets hope i can explain this right,cant find an answer yet, I want a grid tie inverter to try and lower electric bill,cant get caught if it runs backwards. I was thinking of a 12 volt bank,and a 12 volt inverter., My panels would be 2x240 watt,open c volt, 37.2 volts, amps-pmax-7.8 then have...

so, these are 72 ah per battery,and how much total of 4 batteries to 85120 Az

no, my mobile home as per required by code and the national eletric code is a sub panel, and is powered by a cord, shore power if some people use this term for mobile homes, or in sense an Rv.