Frank in Thailand
making mistakes so you don't have to...
I'm playing with solar for quite some time now and observed a strange phenomenon that I could not place.
With my lead acid setup, 16 X 200Ah the rack to hold the batteries, made of thick iron beams, "suddenly" had electric charge.
And not even a little!!
Suddenly as in building the thing and getting a shock weeks (months?) later.
It was standing on dry concrete, not good grounding.
(Picture made during installation, but clear picture of the massive iron rack)
Now, I moved up to LiFePO4 cells.
1016Ah @S16, +50 kWh LiFePO4 Powerwall.
I made a new setup where I compress the cells as adviced with threaded rods.
Guess what, they getting charged in days!
It hurts to touch them, we talk about that high charge...
my setup have the bus-bars "hoovering" over the threaded rods.
2 times, two detection, positive and negative....
and it's impressive!!
Not so much my build, but the results of the EMF!!
After a few days the rods are charged with enough power to hurt.
I never got any degree in electronics or EMF, so, just a total noob here reporting what happens.
Not the how or why.
It just does.
Living off grid, no electricity lines for miles and miles, the only one that makes a setup that generates electricity is me.
No one else to blaim, no blank inverter lines connected even close to the rods.
DC.
From battery and possibly also the solar system, 4500 watts at 350v.
(At time of occurrance)
I had my mining rig close to the battery, and while working perfectly in the past, it suddenly got all type of strange errors.
I didn't make the link untill now..
I just turned it off for when I have energy to fix it.
(Medical issues)
It's been months inside the field..
Just hope they are OK.
For the EMF...
Shielding!
Simple aluminium foil will do.
With first plastic layer to protect against accidental short.
Higher capacity and larger electricity usage does require EMF protection.
If not for health, then for your equipment.
With my lead acid setup, 16 X 200Ah the rack to hold the batteries, made of thick iron beams, "suddenly" had electric charge.
And not even a little!!
Suddenly as in building the thing and getting a shock weeks (months?) later.
It was standing on dry concrete, not good grounding.
(Picture made during installation, but clear picture of the massive iron rack)
Now, I moved up to LiFePO4 cells.
1016Ah @S16, +50 kWh LiFePO4 Powerwall.
I made a new setup where I compress the cells as adviced with threaded rods.
Guess what, they getting charged in days!
It hurts to touch them, we talk about that high charge...
my setup have the bus-bars "hoovering" over the threaded rods.
2 times, two detection, positive and negative....
and it's impressive!!
Not so much my build, but the results of the EMF!!
After a few days the rods are charged with enough power to hurt.
I never got any degree in electronics or EMF, so, just a total noob here reporting what happens.
Not the how or why.
It just does.
Living off grid, no electricity lines for miles and miles, the only one that makes a setup that generates electricity is me.
No one else to blaim, no blank inverter lines connected even close to the rods.
DC.
From battery and possibly also the solar system, 4500 watts at 350v.
(At time of occurrance)
I had my mining rig close to the battery, and while working perfectly in the past, it suddenly got all type of strange errors.
I didn't make the link untill now..
I just turned it off for when I have energy to fix it.
(Medical issues)
It's been months inside the field..
Just hope they are OK.
For the EMF...
Shielding!
Simple aluminium foil will do.
With first plastic layer to protect against accidental short.
Higher capacity and larger electricity usage does require EMF protection.
If not for health, then for your equipment.
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