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Yea I would rather have the U shape...

I have the Whynter FM-901DZ Zone Portable Fridge 90 qt for our off grid cabin and it been good. I bought it years ago man the prices on them went up alot. Glad I bought it when I did.

This was my goto for information a very long time ago. Glad to see he was adding to his blog. I got to talk to him on the phone a few times. Things sure have changed alot :) Seems like he really hated The "Lithium Ion battery" LOL This is a favorite... of course from 2015 --...

LOL Everything is a fire hazard anyway. :)

Built and setup two Pwnagotchi's and a few Portable LoRa Meshtastic devices.

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Yea they would be fun to play with for an offgrid setup. EV is noway ready for prime time and probably won't be in my lifetime. Most people don't know anything about oil other than what they read on the interwebs. I support oil also. I worked on 835ft drillships for many many years as a Chief...

Anything the Gooberment wants us to have I don't want. I will keep my ICE V.

You could get these and cut them. https://sungoldpower.com/products/5-feet-parallel-cable-for-sg48100m Or get these https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-powerpro-battery-cable-connector-orange/ https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-powerpro-battery-cable-connector-black/...

The main reason for me is portability. EcoFlow is great for that. Yea you can strap all that other stuff to a dolly... :( Naaa

Yea your talking about building your own batteries and all. If you have the time and want to play / experiment go for it. Me I already have too many other hobbies and don't need another one. LOL So I went for the ecoflow. I might one day get a rack mount battery and an all in one mppt/inverter...

Don't know what you mean regular solar system. Or you really mean DIY like buying stuff from sig solar and building what you want? From all the mixed stories on here abut sig solar. I opted to stay away from them and I got a EcoFlow Delta 2 Max for our cabin and the extra battery. I love it...

I don't think that it was really to much for what I got. Back when I did the solar it was a 26% tax credit and the solar system was around 18k out of my pocket paid cash. This was after the tax credit. A couple years later we got the battery system tax credit at 30% paid cash again and it was...

$12.32 is pretty cheap. Here in FL with FPL former Gulf Power are connection or meter fee is 26.98 a month, but I am grid tied net metering and we sell back to them. I get enough credit in Jan to cover the meter fee for the year so technically we get no electric bill at all. :)

Anyone get a call from Enphase they are doing an upgrade / recall on my IQ Controller 2. Hello, My name is Sunil with Enphase Energy. I am writing to inform you about an upcoming proactive service and equipment upgrade for the Enphase system controller installed on your home. At Enphase...

I feel I did not miss out on anything. ha ha I'm good :) .

I don't think I would ever order from them again and reading stuff like this keeps me from ordering from them ever. I think I would have got with the cc and did a charge back and send the junk back to them. Good luck out there... :(

You ever use an adapter to plug your RV into your house 120VAC plug? I would do the same. Good Luck... :)

You need bigger wire... Go 6ga or go home. :)

I don't get an electric bill either. But as for the question we have both a house on grid with solar that washes the bill completely. We have batteries on this system for backup whole house would have no problem staying off grid as long as needed. Then we have a cabin in the woods 15 min from...

I already have emoncms setup and have been using it for a very long time. Just have never integrated the enphase batteries monitoring into it yet.

My Enphase batteries provide 240 AC with the IQ8 Inverters built in. My question with the Vue work with Grid, Solar, and battery AC in/out. Can you program it that way? Anyone using it like that. Edit. Just found out that I can do this with what I got already. Looks like vue is really too...

I still using EMONCMS and it works great but now that I have the enphase batteries it will show 0 watts used if I use sefl consumption. So I would like to find something that will monitor energy used, solar, and the batteries. Will Vue do this? .

One reason I opted for an Ecoflow for the cabin. I was gonna order EG4 stuff but no way now...

Yea I had the battery meter and pwm controller back in the day. No longer own it. They worked great together with crown batteries. They have the same website http://www.bogartengineering.com/products.html .

Wow Bogart Engineering. Have not heard that in a long while. One of my first PWM controllers. Did not think they were around anymore.

Same here Also Milwaukee fuel tools and my HK MP5 SD. They all come in handy when needed.

Same here I can care less about ROI... I wanted the system and the backup batteries. You want ROI buy a house and make it a rental. And solar at the cabin is a hobby also and nice to have. .

Also is why you should be smarter that the sales guy which is not very hard to do. This applies to everything in life. There is one born every min :( It's quite sad.

There are settings in the app to prevent this from happening. You can tell it to stay on no matter what. .

I feel sorry for you all in Cali... Here in Florida it's not too bad. Our solar doing well. We only get the meter fee around $26 but that gets washed away on the credit we get in Jan and it last for the year to pay the meter fee. I have batteries mainly for backup. .

Yes I have the EcoFlow Delta 2 Max and setup 4ea 340 watt panels going to it for our cabin. Works great. I'm thinking about getting the extra battery for the Delta 2 Max soon

Why did you get the more expensive IQ8's for such a small system? Plan on doing batteries and or adding on later?