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  • Re: Fusing for a 48V/415Ah battery bank

    Fusing at the battery bank is a good idea if you have parallel battery strings (typically 3 or more parallel, one fuse/breaker per parallel string). Technically, the fuse/breaker is to stop high curr…
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  • Re: Best Battery Selection

    Generally... 2 days of "no sun" and 50% maximum discharge (or 4x your daily load) seems to work out pretty well. I am not sure how well lead acid batteries would do with a slow discharge ov…
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  • Re: PV Ground Fault Protection

    For various reasons, I am not a fan of DC GF systems. I do not know anything about how the Morning Star GFPD works--So I cannot really say much about it or even help much in debugging it. Checking co…
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  • Re: boondocking musicians want to go solar in RV

    This DC Current clamp meter (really AC/DC clamp+DMM) is not expensive and "good enough" for our needs: http://www.sears.com/craftsman-digital-clamp-on-ammeter/p-03482369000P -Bill
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  • Re: New Trojan 27TMX are swell

    It is difficult to say... Some batteries have relatively thin cases and can bow out a bit. Some larger batteries are designed to be in metal sleeves (like some forklift batteries). Another remote pos…
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