I could have thrown in a water heating element and made a nice hot tub
DIY season adjustable ground mount build
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This looks fantastic, I have been searching and searching for something that I liked in a DIY ground mount and I think I found it. Mind you I will only have 6 panels so will be on a much smaller scale.
Need to find some pallet racking now!
Need to find some pallet racking now!
Zwy
Solar Wizard
I just use a piece of foam and vacuum cleaner to pull string or mule tape thru conduit. A plastic bag works good too, just ball it up and tie on the mule tape. For long distances over a few hundred feet, you will have to pull string and use the string to pull the mule tape thru. Rope works too instead of mule tape but can get a little stretchy over longer distances.
Fish tape is ok for short distances, I've pulled plenty of wire thru walls and other places. Not so great with a few 90's.
Looks like things are coming along nicely for you, won't be long and you will be up and running. Great job.
Fish tape is ok for short distances, I've pulled plenty of wire thru walls and other places. Not so great with a few 90's.
Looks like things are coming along nicely for you, won't be long and you will be up and running. Great job.
I haven't even installed my adjust mechanism yet but there will be a manual winch
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I made a little progress. I added 3 more 280Ah seplos kits so I have a full stack now. I have communication working with the sol-ark so I don't have to deal with the crappy SoC estimation anymore. I also got the first post in for the final array but the ground is too wet again so it may be awhile before I can finish that.
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Good info just saved it
Thanks
Nobodybusiness
Collecting the leftovers of the Great Sky Reactor.
Doesn’t HVDC require EMT conduit?
Once it gets inside the house
I’m not so cool about these plastic DIN beaker boxes. Seeing one on a video with overheated surge arrestors looking more like a napalm maker doesn’t give me much assurance. It’s on my list to make metal.
Were they IMOs? I've never heard of anyone having trouble with those.
Nobodybusiness
Collecting the leftovers of the Great Sky Reactor.
So not under the house only passing through walls then.
Wasn’t sure but I knew I had heard that somewhere.
Your lucky to have such interested and helpful sheep on this project…look at that head sheep looking back to tell the others to chop chop.. let’s go… I can’t even get my wife and kids to get that interested… damnnnn..
Subdood
Photon Wrangler
Wow that's a lot of wires, seems like a lot for one array, or is this for future arrays, and you're just running them all now?
How many wires, the gauges and size of the conduit? I bet that was a fun pull..
Two 8 AWG and eight 10 AWG for that pull through 1" PVC. Then at the first junction box at the house it met up with the conduit from the two arrays behind the house for a total of 14 wires in the last pull through 1 1/4" PVC. The pull through the 1" was more difficult. By the end I was using at least 200lbs of force and starting to worry that the fish tape might break.
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