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  1. EastTexCowboy

    How did your solar fare during the January '24 freeze?

    Just curious how everyone's solar and/or batteries did/is doing during this last freeze. I'll start. Mine didn't. Let me preface this by pointing out I am heating and cooling about 4,000 sf and of that about 3000 sf has 10 ft ceilings. So, if you compare to typical 8 ft ceilings and go by...
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    Ian's YT on inverters with autotransformers

    Interesting video on why Ian (watts247) no longer carries inverters with an autotransformer. Would love to hear your opinions.
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    Mobile cart build

    I'm going to do a mobile cart build based on the video Will did with the EG4 3K. I could simply duplicate everything he did and I'd have a great system, but I'd like to refine the design a little with some specific goals in mind. I'm hoping for some input from the brain trust on this forum. I...
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    Anyone on here from the Vermont or Maine flooded areas?

    How are you folks holding up in the ridiculous floods going on up there? From the news it looks pretty rough.
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    LV6548 fan bearing?

    I just started getting a noise from one of my inverters (the left one) that sounds to me like maybe a fan bearing. It's a little higher pitched than the normal fan noise and seems to come and go. I seems to be louder when listening by the lower right side of the inverter. Since this is...
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    Freezer monitors

    If you have solar there's a good chance you have one or more freezers on it. We have four with another to be delivered in a couple of weeks. We run a small beef operation which is part of the reason for so many, plus a lot of garden production, and I think my wife has a freezer obsession but...
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    Texas storm

    I know some of you were in the path of the storm yesterday and last night. Multiple casualties up around Lubbock from a tornado and there's still over 200k without power this morning across the state. A lot of damage. Tell us your story. How did your solar hold up? Is there anything you...
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    Why are my LV6548s going to bypass?

    Not long ago I activated the battery maintenance feature in SA and set it to switch to bypass at 20% and back to battery at 40%. This is the second time I've seen it go to bypass when it was nowhere near the trigger point. I thought maybe the first time was a fluke but this morning it switched...
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    Polish up your crystal ball

    Where do you see the DIY solar industry going over the next few years? I’m thinking up to the next five years but any opinions or time frames are welcome. Battery technology, inverter technology, panels, mobile solar, new technologies? Do you have specific insight on one or more things due to...
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    REC - Redneck Electrical Code

    By popular demand (okay, it's only like three other people and me, but at least two of us are popular ? ) I'm starting this thread to help our community develop something we are direly in need of - a Redneck Electrical Code. In light of the need to be inclusive, the code will not just be for...
  11. EastTexCowboy

    LV6548 AC input settings

    For those of you who are running split phase MPP LV6548 inverters and LiFePO4 batteries, I'm curious on how you have configured your AC input settings. There seems to be multiple opinions on this.
  12. EastTexCowboy

    LV6548 Stripped connector

    I finally got around to changing out some of the wiring on my two LV6548 inverters and one of the connectors for AC output is stripped. I think I've seen something on here about others having an issue with these but I couldn't find it. I emailed Ian at watts447 to see if he keeps any of these...
  13. EastTexCowboy

    Mixing panels with two 16 panel arrays

    I've searched the forum and haven't found a discussion on a similar setup as mine. Here's my setup - 2 - MPP LV6548 inverters configured for split phase 240v 16 - 445w Solarever panels configured 4S4P connected to SP1 inverter I want to add another array and connect to the second inverter...
  14. EastTexCowboy

    Solar assistant "internal server error" when I click configuration

    I had SA working just fine until I decided to connect it to the batteries as well. Now I get an "internal server error" when I click Configuration. I have it connected to two MPP LV6548 configured for split phase 240V and to a rack of six of the EG4 Lifepower (no LED) batteries. The batteries...
  15. EastTexCowboy

    Transfer switch with two LV6548 inverters

    First of all I want to thank everyone here for all the help you've given me. I've had my system up and running for a couple weeks now with no issues and it would have been quite a challenge without the wealth of information and willingness to help I've found here. I've built a system very...
  16. EastTexCowboy

    Yet another cable size question

    I have a question on cabling past a Y connector. I'm installing a system with 16 445W panels, a MPP 6548 invertor, and at least 2 of the EG4 5kwh batteries. The panels will be in four arrays with four in each array in series. By my calculations that's about 200W and 11 amps per array before...
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