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  • Re: Using a battery balancer

    Measure the voltage across each battery. The voltages should be nearly the same. In this case, I would guess nearly the same means less than 0.180 to 0.090 volts or less is good (12 volts battery ass…
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  • Re: strange action

    Resistance heaters typically do not have a large surge (there may be some, many elements can have lower resistance when cold). Placing a voltmeter right on the DC inputs to the AC inverter and see if…
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  • Re: wiring a 48v bank with 9 strings of 12V

    Poster 2manytoyz has a lot of about his DIY solar system over the years... With lots of pictures. One method would be to put 4x batteries in series. Then run a + and - lead from each string of battei…
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  • Re: Small Texas Off Grid System Sizing

    Just to clarify Photowhit's freezer specifications. * Freezer is rated for 172 kWH per year * Or 172,000 WH per day * 172,000 WH per day year / 365 Days per year = 471 Watt*Hours per day -Bill
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  • Re: Little help with PV array capacity.

    Is it possible... Yes. Is it something that could "solve" the problem... It would be a waste of energy, Lots of unknowns... How cold, how quick will sun hit panel, tracking or fixed, what i…
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