Hmmmmm there you go two fm 80 charge control for east and west ?The OutBack has the rep, but the Growatt 12kw 250vdc with a claim of 3X surge capabilit and all in for $2,300 is a REAL temptation. It tips the scales at over 165 pounds (but it comes from China - they could have just packed it up with spent uranium fuel rods). Dual PV in's would help my situation with wanting to run the east and west roof sides seperatly (I think). If it's important to anyone, I don't think the LVX has UL, and not sure about Growatt. The OutBack - yes.
Almost everything comes from China so that doesn't bother me today. I do think we should pull manufacturing back home.The OutBack has the rep, but the Growatt 12kw 250vdc with a claim of 3X surge capability and all in for $2,300 is a REAL temptation. It tips the scales at over 165 pounds (but it comes from China - they could have just packed it up with spent uranium fuel rods). Dual PV in's would help my situation with wanting to run the east and west roof sides seperatly (I think). If it's important to anyone, I don't think the LVX has UL, and not sure about Growatt. The OutBack - yes.
I was thinking I would need two of the Outback 8kw's to run my home. But they are claiming one will do it.Flex power radian 80/48 A 8000k watts and it will serve to 16k for real ? not just words on a screen .
Buy once , cry once good stuff
The radian 8k will run at 9k for 30 minutes. Since my heat pump will draw 4-5kw when running, 8kw is probably too small for me.I’m using a flex power one 36/48 a it has a lot of grunt .
I would think about down sizing some where if a 8k watt inverter was not big enough .
My cabin is 2800sf and runs on 2/300 watts All day long unless I do Landry or some thing .
The pumps just won’t start exactly at the same time .
I have plenty of power but its cold here so I don’t need AC .
I should do some power studies on my house. I could turn several things on at the same time and get an idea of what the peak power usage is.It dosent run consistently?
Right now I have on order two 48V 16s 280AH sets; one from Amy Wan and the other from the Lishen-Eve store (?)I still think your battery will be your largest down fall .
I really like the 8kw Outback radian and the system I am building has to be dependable so I am ordering one tomorrow.Flex power radian 80/48 A 8000k watts and it will serve to 16k for real ? not just words on a screen .
Buy once , cry once good stuff
MrM1 - can you explain overpaneling? Are you just saying "to heck with it" and hooking up 11.5kw of panel figuring when all's said and done, it will probably make closer to the 7kw anyway? I'm new to all of this, and not yet familiar with what I can do a "close enough, good enough" with. For example, I know panel voltage goes up when it gets cold, but how crazy should I go. I checked and the coldest day EVER was -39F. Do I work with that number, or go with "the coldest day I have ever seen was -17, and that was 5 years ago..." and rate the panels based on that? Same for you attaching it to 11.5kW of panel - is it one of those "well...the panels will NEVER actually produce 11.5kW, so no need to worry?" Don't mean to open up a can of worms, and I understand many people do things differently and may have a different opinion. Just looking to gather opinions...Yeah I've got coming the Growatt 12kw 250vdc. Even though it can only use 7000w of array we are overpaneling it to 11.5k watts of array . This will make it harvest close to it max potential regardless of the weather conditions. And if we find our battery is not getting fully charged every now and then (Even LF280k 48v 16s2p), or we just need more, we will just add another charge controller as we are running 2 home runs from the array to the inverter as the Growatts SCC input has 2 inputs, PV1 and PV2
Hmmmm I would look at there all in one system for 7k $ ish it gives you 2 fm80s a mate fndc power monitor and all the wiring , switches / breakers all ready to go .I really like the 8kw Outback radian and the system I am building has to be dependable so I am ordering one tomorrow.
Anyone seen a better deal than this ? I didn't realize it weighs 190 lbs !
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You can add extra panels to a mppt controler but the controler will only put out its max amps , but you will get to full amp out put earlier and latter in the day . I’m sure you can go over by 25% or a little more , I’m over by 500watts on my fm 80 .MrM1 - can you explain overpaneling? Are you just saying "to heck with it" and hooking up 11.5kw of panel figuring when all's said and done, it will probably make closer to the 7kw anyway? I'm new to all of this, and not yet familiar with what I can do a "close enough, good enough" with. For example, I know panel voltage goes up when it gets cold, but how crazy should I go. I checked and the coldest day EVER was -39F. Do I work with that number, or go with "the coldest day I have ever seen was -17, and that was 5 years ago..." and rate the panels based on that? Same for you attaching it to 11.5kW of panel - is it one of those "well...the panels will NEVER actually produce 11.5kW, so no need to worry?" Don't mean to open up a can of worms, and I understand many people do things differently and may have a different opinion. Just looking to gather opinions...
Why stop at 25%? The SCC is only going to use what it can use. Does it care if the array can produce 10, 20 or 100% more than that?I’m sure you can go over by 25% or a little more...
Hmmmmm there you go two fm 80 charge control for east and west ?
You can do every thing you need to do with this unit .
You can set your pumps up with a priority switch so only one turns on at once .
You still need a ton of battery’s to run all this , out back has been taking people off grid for ever , of course you can go Chinese and just buy a extra one , I have a feeling you will need it ?