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    Whats your average KWH hour household ?

    SMR huh, Pretty sure our company shelved the plans for that. The latest and greatest is the Micro Reactor based off of space reactor tech. Depending on your back yard it could be placed there via semi. Search eVinci.
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    Whats your average KWH hour household ?

    With what we currently have “active”. The last day of good production was Nov 16! That is the second photo. You can see when the car was plugged in. The first one is for the month so far. I have our usage goal set to 900KWh per month. Some months we beat it by a couple hundred but December...
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    Solar awning

    It’s actually a 2020. Ordered last Feb, COVID delayed it and we took possession in early Aug. Makes the remaining lifted Titan and the Flatbed truck look small. Funny thing is I gave up waiting for it, reserved a Bronco and the salesman called me about the Bronco. I recognized the voice and...
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    Solar awning

    Good eye, I have a lot of those ”where’s Waldo?” photos of the back yard. Some have Suzuki Samuri in them others have quads. That is one of the Titans. I had two but recently traded that black one for a superduty.
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    Solar awning

    While I'm strengthening up the structure this Spring linear actuators will be added to the angled supports. Picked up some special telescopic uni-strut and 1K lbs actuators to retrofit. Have a controller that will manipulate up to 4 actuators do I'll use that to make angle adjustments several...
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    Solar awning

    The uprights are 6X6 PT that extend to footers below the deck. I just passed them through. The wife detects a .5 degree lean to the structure in the direction of the panels after a wind storm in Dec so I will add corner braces to it this Spring after winching it plumb. Thanks for the...
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    100 Ah LiFePO4 @ $1250 usd. 48v nominal

    7000+ cycles on these batteries according to company if treated nicely. Not sure about the A123s. I ran 6 circuits of my house for 4 days and took the batteries down to 45% SOC. Going to install a standalone battery monitor to watch the pack as a whole. I did notice that the individual cells...
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    Solar awning

    So, my wife bought our current house in 2015(The one I owned was too small for a family to be). It had a large deck off the back that needed resurfaced. While resurfacing she asked me to build a pergola on it. To me, pergolas are a waste of a lot of pressure treated wood. They are mostly...
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    100 Ah LiFePO4 @ $1250 usd. 48v nominal

    My batteries, rack cabinet and panels arrived Monday. everything was in good shape except for the bottom 2 panels. Looks like the load shifted a bit putting too much pressure on them. I inspected all the batteries one of them had a PC cable included so over the weekend I’ll download the...
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    Battery charger that can charge as fast as solar

    Does your generator have a DC13.? V output? Mine all do but never measured the output in amps. Wondering if it work for you.
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    100 Ah LiFePO4 @ $1250 usd. 48v nominal

    It looks like the red plastic cover (which he stated) has a corner broken off of it. Not the actual + terminal. If its usable you may get them to send you just the cover and tweak the rack mount tabs back into shape. Unless it was going to be a show piece likely not worth the effort of...
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    100 Ah LiFePO4 @ $1250 usd. 48v nominal

    When you don't buy through Ebay and call them directly you save ~$450 per battery. They take pre orders and like JoeHam stated you may be at the front of the container you may be at the back. Would have ordered through Ebay in April but didnt have the $ till July but glad I waited. Guess if...
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    100 Ah LiFePO4 @ $1250 usd. 48v nominal

    Ordered these batteries as well about mid Aug and expect them on Monday. Purchased their 19” rack enclosure with buss bars. The batteries come with parallel cables, and power cables to the buss bars. With a USB breakout adapter you can monitor the batteries with a PC. I’m very interested in...
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    Adding off grid to grid tie system.

    My biggest gripe with my grid tie system has been losing my solar in a power outage. Last Summer looking through my spare parts I realized there are enough cables and Y connectors to branch off 1/2 my panels upstream of the micro inverters. Running that branch(2800W) or 2 in my case, 10 panels...
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