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    Solar unit voltage vs panel voltage

    Well I’m 76 yrs old, so they’ll be no turning over of a panel and reading anything on it? I believe they probably weigh more than I do ha ha, and I wouldn’t understand what all those figures meant anyways. So it sounds like I may have bought the wrong panels 3 1/2 years ago I should have bought...
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    Solar unit voltage vs panel voltage

    my unit it is a MPP solar hybrid LV 6048 inverter/charger I’m getting 60v from 16, 250W panels. I believe the panels are in parallel to the end and then hooked up as series… But it has been 3 1/2 years, and I am really ignorant when it comes to electricity and solar. Also, I don’t think my 4...
  3. J

    Solar unit voltage vs panel voltage

    I have a 48V MPPT unit, and my solar panels are 12V…will this work, if not why?
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    Still chasing my tail when MPP 6048 shuts down?

    I know It’s been awhile, but we just gave up. I eventually did find a solar man, and he came out, but he couldn’t figure out why we had 70v coming in from our array, and why the MPP Hybrid LV 6048 Inverter/Charger, was only producing 200-300W??‍♀️ He did admit he had not studied the book, and...
  5. J

    Shunt necessary?

    Me too...limiting my cost is my first priority ?
  6. J

    Shunt necessary?

    And used it many times
  7. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    Yes, those are the same panels, we bought 16 of them? Thank you, this is such a help
  8. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    I have been looking for the right combiner box and I have no clue? Can you help please yes I would rather go with breakers inside the combiner box. Maybe the name of the manufacturer & Which one to purchase that would fit our needs?
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    Still chasing my tail when MPP 6048 shuts down?

    We r using it in solar first, when it shuts down, it goes back to default ?
  10. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    Thank you for your direction...will look for the built in fuses?
  11. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    Sorry that it’s taken so long to get to get back to you guys but we’ve been trying to figure everything out bought more batteries we now have eight. There are still a couple of questions we have: Should we fuse each panel that we are setting up for strings in series parallel ( diagram...
  12. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    I certainly appreciate the clarification and we will be figuring out how to do it all it’ll take me a while I’m sure?this will really help?
  13. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    Close, but our unit is 6000 48v, Thank you for all your help, Greg is putting together the panel configuration you suggested, And download the table you suggested that he use. We just are not getting enough voltage into our unit.
  14. J

    Still chasing my tail when MPP 6048 shuts down?

    A friend (paid gas only)
  15. J

    Still chasing my tail when MPP 6048 shuts down?

    In user defined selection, can low DC cut off voltage, and be set up to stay at that new setting, and not returning to default 42 volts?
  16. J

    Still chasing my tail when MPP 6048 shuts down?

    It will not let us change that setting (low DC cutoff voltage #29) which is 42.0 the default setting
  17. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    4g
  18. J

    Oopsie?

    Not yet, imaybe I’ll do that tomorrow. As soon as the power stoped from the sun, it turned off and it reset when we turned it bac on, and is working fine with a load under 300w ?‍♀️
  19. J

    Still chasing my tail when MPP 6048 shuts down?

    It will not go past the default, which is 42?‍♀️?
  20. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    Battery cables r 4g, from battery to battery appox 8”long, and from the battery to the unit is about 2 feet, but will be less when we mount it all permanently ?
  21. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    Hope you can see, it’s awful small
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    Help?we’re lost!

  23. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    Yes, I ran the fans TV and the Internet till 10 o’clock last night and I checked the battery setting on the readout and it was still fully charged, after three hours of use I think it’s in the settings somewhere because he’s checked everything he did and rechecked everything he did and it’s...
  24. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    I will send pictures, but partner got the diagram off line on how to do it, and took a reading (50.4), before he turned it on, which ran fine, till he ran the saw, and then we got the alert, and shut down?‍♀️ I believe he said the low voltage is set at 54v?but I’m not sure, going out now to take...
  25. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    Before he followed your instructions, he wanted to see if maybe it was just not enough storage, so this is what he did. I got the 4 new batteries and he charged them to equal capacity, And they are hooked up together in series. The MPP unit gave us a reading 65-69v coming out plugged in a...
  26. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    I will take a picture, and no combiner box? I got 4 more batteries and I’m shot, sonow we have 8 in series, pos to neg right? so we have connected 8 12v batteries in series, all charged evenly. Our panels are putting out approx 65v- 68
  27. J

    Oopsie?

    Our MPP LV 6048 came up with a code of 72 (current sharing) does anyone know what that means???
  28. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    You help is Much appreciated? I bougot 4 more of the same batteries today, I just have to have more storage if I’m ever to have a fridge again?
  29. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    I had it wrong from the beginning in the way they hooked him up some thing about two together equaling eight pairs or something like that I am on the tail end of it because I don’t understand most of it it’s all Greek to me ?‍♀️ The men figured the voltage and I believe it was 34v+ 34v = 68v...
  30. J

    Battery packs

    Can’t remember exactly, without looking it up, and I don’t have the material with me, for a few days? I am at my daughters house enjoy enjoying full electricity?? Altogether with shipping it was a little over $1300 but I believe it has gone up since then, they should be going down because so...
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    Help?we’re lost!

  32. J

    What to buy?

    Thank you so much, I will find out. They sent us a manual but it is outdated the newest one is the 1.2 online I’m going to have I’m gonna download it and have it printed out today so I can read the dang thing
  33. J

    Help?we’re lost!

    I’m getting between 390-400w a day, and I turn it off when the sun goes down
  34. J

    Still chasing my tail when MPP 6048 shuts down?

    He’s a friend, and just helped us with questions, but we’re old & slow learners
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