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Victron is Over-priced Eurotrash. Why would anybody buy Victron over an AiO?

I keep my vevor boxes locked since relatives keep wanting to point at things inside the boxes. I keep trying to explain to them you don't even have to actually touch high voltage stuff to get popped if you get to close. In one ear and out the other.
 
I keep my vevor boxes locked since relatives keep wanting to point at things inside the boxes. I keep trying to explain to them you don't even have to actually touch high voltage stuff to get popped if you get to close. In one ear and out the other.
They only have to touch it once...

Years ago when I was renovating our kitchen, I asked my 5 year old son if I ever told him why you shouldn't shove anything into an electrical socket. He said no, so I grabbed a piece of wire, bent it into a fork and shoved it in. Big ole spark and pop and my sons eyes were as big as saucers. Then I asked him if he would ever put anything in the sockets and he repeatedly said "NO NO NO NO...".
 
My son was maybe 7 years old when we were at my mom's house trying to diagnose an issue with her heating. He saw me using my volt meter. When I put it down he picked it up and put the probes into an outlet. I don't know what exactly he did but the tip of the one of the probes has been melted ever since.
 
They only have to touch it once...

Years ago when I was renovating our kitchen, I asked my 5 year old son if I ever told him why you shouldn't shove anything into an electrical socket. He said no, so I grabbed a piece of wire, bent it into a fork and shoved it in. Big ole spark and pop and my sons eyes were as big as saucers. Then I asked him if he would ever put anything in the sockets and he repeatedly said "NO NO NO NO...".

About 50 years ago, when I was a young child, I stuck two Mecano rods in a shaver adapter, I've respected electricity ever since!

UK sockets have a shutter arrangement, the long earth prong on the plug opens the shutters on the live & neutral, but a shaver adapter just has two nice round holes that the steel Mecano rods fit in to, and bang 240v, I'm lucky I let go pretty sharpish!
 
When in grammar school I liked electromagnets, and came up with an idea how to make a powerful one.
I unbend a paper clip, coiled it a couple times around my finger, and stuck it in an extension cord.

Fortunately I was not well grounded at the time.
I grew up with little fear of electricity.

The past couple of years, however, my carelessness has put the Fear of Zeus in me.

Just recently, I was using twist-loc extension cord to connect 400V battery to inverter. Male plug on the inverter, female coming from battery. What could possibly go wrong? I unplugged the cord (with no current flow, and after the plug separated my hand came back and palm touched the plug prongs. Wired to charged cap in battery.
 
When I was wiring parts of my hodgepodge system up late one night (I was wiring up XT60 connectors in place of the original small molex plugs on each of my 10 battery packs) I found out firsthand REALLY quickly how much power a NMC eBike pack really holds.

I went to plug one of them in and KER-POW!! ... I guess I wired one of the plugs backwards.

A huge arc flash, exploded plastic from the XT60 connector and the metal of the male and female end of the XT60 connector were melted beyond recognition.



I grabbed the pack with the exploded connector and ran it outside just in case, but nothing became of it.

After the fact I realized that since I was connecting it up to a sort of busbar system, that it was the other packs backfeeding into that one pack anyways...
Short of gunfire that was the loudest thing I had every experienced that close to my face.
I don't know how I didn't get shrapnel in my eyes.

But I do know my eyes ached and my ears hurt afterwards. As if I needed to aggravate my tinnitus any more.

Anyways, yeah... I usually don't derail topics but I figured I'd add that in there. 😅🙃


Oh and to go back to being slightly more on topic, I have also witnessed plenty of adults who don't know the phrase look with your eyes not with your hands.

Many adults poke their fingers right at things when referring to them.
It really makes me wonder how some people are alive with how poor their situational awarenesses is.

It's no wonder circular saws need warnings telling people not to stick their fingers into the blade.
 
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More Blue love installed today.

Smart SC 100/20 for a small East/West array charging the 48v batteries. It can be switched to the 24v bank to charge it instead of the vacuum cleaner LV2424 which is now a backup SCC and inverter to the 24v bank.

Networked it with the 250/100 SCC. It does tend to run hot at 15a. The connectors they give you to work with are tiny.
 
Thought I may have bought my last piece of blue after venturing to the dark side of Midnite Solar, but ended up ordering a second 500A smart shunt so I could track the production of a Hawkes bay SCC in VRM.
I have had the same thoughts….but it turned out not to be so…I feel weak..
 
Tho a sneak peak, from a hardware quality point of view the die cast aluminium chassis I find far beyond my 450/100...

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VRM is a hell of a drug...I gotta have my second by second stats...
I understand perfectly… that’s why I haven’t done it so far…I day traded for several years in the CBOT with real time feed… it’s a dopamine rush …it’s addictive.. I had to quit …
To much stimuli…..
 
I understand perfectly… that’s why I haven’t done it so far…I day traded for several years in the CBOT with real time feed… it’s a dopamine rush …it’s addictive.. I had to quit …
To much stimuli…..
Apparent Solar Assistant support is coming...not sure if that's a possible substitute.
 
Thought I may have bought my last piece of blue after venturing to the dark side of Midnite Solar, but ended up ordering a second 500A smart shunt so I could track the production of a Hawkes bay SCC in VRM.

Big Blue just replaced my defective shunt and I received it today via UPS.

One day it stopped working, no BT light or sign of life.

VRM is always open on my 2nd monitor :D
 
So that’s the real reason they created the Class T Lynx, not just peoples here obsession with them.


I resemble that remark - I am obsessed with the class T verse a lot of the common fuses. To the point I only use the MRBF or class T fuses or a combination of them
 
I resemble that remark - I am obsessed with the class T verse a lot of the common fuses. To the point I only use the MRBF or class T fuses or a combination of them
The class T, rated for 20,000 AIC
The MNEDC250 breaker, rated for 50,000 AIC :)
What's clear is 60-80V megafuses won't meet the ABYC 125V rating requirement, in addition to not meeting the 20k AIC requirement.
 

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