It appears a buddy of mind is going to donate two used 300 watt panels.They are rated at 30 volts with about 8 amps open voltage (he got them for a song - used I should say)We’ve been out in the desert in socal and after wiring in a progressive dynam...
Last year, I had an issue with my roof. The roof was pulling away from the wood structure below.With some great advice from Doug I put a fresh layer of 1/8" plywood and attached that to the existing wood roof, then put down new adhesive and my roof ...
My buddy picked up 6 300 watt panels today - because he wants to be able to feed his ravenous Starlink - without running the generator.The starlink uses 190 watts of power at 120v - it's a pig for power.The panels have an open voltage of about 30 vol...
Gents,My EU2000 has served me well for the last 13 years.It's a little long in the tooth (a lot of runtime).Last time I was out with it, I found a bunch of Oil under the frame when I brought it back inside for the winter season.Next week I'm heading ...
As directed, I did my roof patch this weekend. I put a piece of Luan over the area above the bedroom in the 5er, nailed that to trusses and used some construction adhesive to ensure it's not going anywhere.Then I broke into the Dicor water based adh...
this is all excellent advice - One question though. Can I manually switch the controller from bank 1 to bank 2?As I stated, I run my batteries through a marine switch - which feeds from bank 1 or bank 2 or both. I have them separated because of the...
My plane is to run 8 gauge wiring from the panels to tge controller and 2 or 4 gauge from tge controller to the battery. The biggest challenge is distance from the panels to the controller - I’m guessing 24’ conservatively. We had one of the panel ...
since I have two battery banks (each bank is two 6v gc batts of 210 ah)I isolate them from each other (one is my house battery bank, one feeds my inverter).As noted above, one set of batteries is from 2014 - still going strong and the other is from l...
I got the info - regarding the panels, because I've always been told design is based on reality, not vaporware (software design I should say)....Brand: AstronEnergyModel: CHSM6612p-305Open Circuit Voltage (VOC): 45.29vShort Circuit Current (ISC) 8....
This is similar to the hitch my neighbors purchased when the received their trailer - LoadEqulizerAndAntiSwayI'm old school and we used to have a load equalizing hitch and an anti-sway device Anti-Sway-DeviceI don't understand how the first link will...
