Almost There...

Photowhit
Photowhit Solar Expert Posts: 6,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Almost there, lots of spaghetti, and I basically converted the E-Panel into a DC-disconnect box, I'll trust the breaker at the other end and the internal fuse and shut offs in the inverter for now. I hope to have a proper inverter in time, but likely I'll have a second Prosine installed above the current one. Just need a ground on the 2nd charge controller and wiring up the battery(on the ground on the right, in the newly built box) and the inverter.

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The arrays comes in from behind, upper back in the E-Panel. The cedar chest is where I had the golf cart batteries to commission the system.
Home system 4000 watt (Evergreen) array standing, with 2 Midnite Classic Lites,  Midnite E-panel, Magnum MS4024, Prosine 1800(now backup) and Exeltech 1100(former backup...lol), 660 ah 24v Forklift battery(now 10 years old). Off grid for 20 years (if I include 8 months on a bicycle).
- Assorted other systems, pieces and to many panels in the closet to not do more projects.
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  • westbranch
    westbranch Solar Expert Posts: 5,183 ✭✭✭✭
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    Re: Almost There...

    PW, what is that small box under the left-hand Classic? I like the staggered look. What about heat dissipation? enough space between them, inside a closed box?
     
    KID #51B  4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM
    CL#29032 FW 2126/ 2073/ 2133 175A E-Panel WBjr, 3 x 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM 
    Cotek ST1500W 24V Inverter,OmniCharge 3024,
    2 x Cisco WRT54GL i/c DD-WRT Rtr & Bridge,
    Eu3/2/1000i Gens, 1680W & E-Panel/WBjr to come, CL #647 asleep
    West Chilcotin, BC, Canada
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  • Photowhit
    Photowhit Solar Expert Posts: 6,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Re: Almost There...
    westbranch wrote: »
    PW, what is that small box under the left-hand Classic? I like the staggered look. What about heat dissipation? enough space between the, inside a closed box?

    It's a junction box, I have yet another array to attach to the system, and there will be a third Classic where the PVC connector sticks out a bit. I didn't want to take it back down to drill it out. There was nearly no other way to connect 2 Classics, no less 3.

    I think there will be enough space between them, I had planned on spacing them about an inch apart, I may still have enough play in the wires to do that, I had actually forgotten to add a space between these, there is about 1/2" now. I've seen 2 classics sandwiched between 2 E-Panels with no spacing, but I know this is not in a controlled environment. (I will have a fan at the top left and about a 10x10 air filter at the bottom right, you can see the wood panel (that belongs inside) nailed to the bottom.
    Home system 4000 watt (Evergreen) array standing, with 2 Midnite Classic Lites,  Midnite E-panel, Magnum MS4024, Prosine 1800(now backup) and Exeltech 1100(former backup...lol), 660 ah 24v Forklift battery(now 10 years old). Off grid for 20 years (if I include 8 months on a bicycle).
    - Assorted other systems, pieces and to many panels in the closet to not do more projects.
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  • westbranch
    westbranch Solar Expert Posts: 5,183 ✭✭✭✭
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    Re: Almost There...

    someone else today mentioned that they had left a ventilation gap behind the Classic and used a small CPU fan 4X4(?) to add air movement... they were worried about the body acting as a heat sink.
     
    KID #51B  4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM
    CL#29032 FW 2126/ 2073/ 2133 175A E-Panel WBjr, 3 x 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM 
    Cotek ST1500W 24V Inverter,OmniCharge 3024,
    2 x Cisco WRT54GL i/c DD-WRT Rtr & Bridge,
    Eu3/2/1000i Gens, 1680W & E-Panel/WBjr to come, CL #647 asleep
    West Chilcotin, BC, Canada
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