Battery Cable & Inverter cables

When sizing solar I say go with the best case scenario amp production, then go one size bigger.

Same thing with the batteries, if the inverter needs 2 gauge go with 1 gauge.

That way at least when you upgrade or add some panels you don't have to rip out all the wiring and redo it.

Best place to get wire is your local hard ware store. They will have tons of 2 and 4 gauge THHN wire, that is the kind of wire that retains it shape after you bend it. Use as much THHN as you can its a lot cheaper than flex cable of the same size.

Then where you need flexible cable go to your local welding store, they should have cheapest flex cable in sizes from 4 gauge all the way up to at least 0 gauge. The welding shop should have lugs and should be able to put them on for you with the proper crimp tool.

Do not go to tractor supply, northern tool, harbor freight for welding cable, they typically sell it for at least double what the local welding store sells it at.

For example my local welding store has very nice 4 gauge flex cable for $1.58 per foot and tractor supply has not as good 4 gauge cable for $5 per foot.

My self, I try to buy wire from the local scrap yard. We have a lot of crack heads around here who will steal wire and sell it to the scrap yard still on the roll a lot of times. Then I buy it from the scrap yard. I can get new 4 gauge THHN wire still on the roll for like 20 cents a foot.

Beware, that the welding cable is not UL listed for power cables, and that the fine strands need a crimp connector rated for the fine strands. 

Spoilsport

Waterfalls up in Yosemite national park should be magnificent then.  We are not big drinkers either and still stop a few months just to make sure.
 But, I do always remember what Frank Sinatra said, " I feel sorry for people who never take a drink, when they get up in the morning, that is the best they will feel all day"

Well come for a visit and I will sell you a system and of course we will have a Martini. I like them dirty BTW.  We kind of run a bed and breakfast for offgrid here. Alot of men have to convince their wives or SO's that offgrid is possible. It was the same way in my sailing days with convincing the SO about leaving the dock for 3+ years.
 I was the weird one then as it was my wife who had to convince me.

The latest park news is the Bozo's at the national park service  (the feds) let a private company get the rights to the names of all the iconic places like Yosemite Falls, The Awahnnee hotel, ElCapitan, etc. All the signs will have new names and millions of dollars down the drain.

 I am so not saving the good wine anymore...

So where is home now Xizang?