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    Basic fusing question (maybe)

    I follow Ben Davidson's Suspicious 0bservers (with a zero not an 'O'). I am working on an 1800w array that is a series of panels of two types, adding up to a working voltage of around 180v, and around 10amps {although, I have seen it produce 2200 watts at one time!}. It feeds a Growatt SPF...
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    Solar panels as roof

    There's a guy, who has an offgrid roof on a hill. Not a building: no walls. Just the roof, pad and supports. Built intentionally so that there is a southern facing side + an less-sloped extension off of that. Roofer didn't order enough materials, and so the western end of the roof tin simply is...
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    Cheap flexible trickle charge panels

    See https://www.ebay.com/itm/314574627135 or image for example (screenshot). Looking for just the panel for a reasonable price. 1) Obviously these are not 300w. Plain false advertising. Maybe 75 watt. 2) The vendors don't seem to know what they have. The additional 20amp charge controller is...
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    12v LFPo to Alternator question

    This is a vehicle-mounted system. This is strictly a question about the battery-alternator interface. TLDR: Question: Has the issue, of a high-drain (dead short) by the LFPo 12v 100ah batteries, been resolved? I.E. so the BMS restricts the charging rate to something reasonable like 20-40 amps...
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    Grounding growatt, generator, on vehicle.

    Ian at watts247 had me tie a jumper wire between neutral and ground, at the bus bars in the vehicle main AC panel, which is fed by the growatt, because there was no neutral-ground bond in the system at the time. Vehicle has a 3kw gasoline inverter generator, that has no neutral-ground bond...
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    Overpanelling GroWatt? Risks?

    Have an existing string w a 181.2 Vmp and 219.3 Voc. Want to add 2 strings of 6 panels each, in parallel, with a Vmp of 182.4, Voc 229.2. Running 1700 watts rn. Capacity of new strings is 1440watts/string. GroWatt SPF 3000TL LVM ES purchased/shipped from dealer Ian/Watts247 on April 2021. Has...
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    Looking for 30.4Vmp commercial/residential panels

    Hi! Found some at SanTan, but shipping is killer. Need 6 or 12. Central WV area.
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    My experience with GroWatt SPF 3000 TL LVM ES and Signature Solar's EG4

    Placeholder: Because I already had the browser crash once on the forum, this is a placeholder I will update in a minute from a laptop. Here are the two related posts: https://diysolarforum.com/threads/growatt-firmware-update.36076/post-500680 and...
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