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Recently I read a blog post that says according to the latest study, in the United States, The Solar Industry Sales For Commercial Applications...
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Hello All and happy new year. Over the holiay I have changed all of my old sockets to some nice new ones and added a couple with usb sockets for...
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Hi all - relatively new to Solar but I’m looking for opinions on fitting DC SPDs on a TNCS installation. Are we just earthing the SPD from the...
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StecaGrid 2010 remains on sleep mode, fuses good, panels generating and no fault messages. Any suggestions
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Hello everyone, I'm currently working on a project to upgrade an existing renewable energy system and could really use some expert advice. The...
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Hello, Signing up with my current electricity supplier for export after recent solar install. They stated they require a commissioning certificate...
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Hi world of knowledge I have two gen 1 x 5kw hybrid inverter, with batteries. My question is can I connect the two backup out put via 2 isolators...
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Greetings, I have a solar 5kw system installed with a hybrid inverter (no batteries yet). My electrician decided to add an extension board for the...
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I (well, the MCS installer) obtained approval under G59 back in 2015 for 11.5 kW of grid connection on a single phase. 12kW of panels into two 6kW...
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Hello there I have just installed a new Solis S6-GR1P3.6K-M-DC Inverter - this replaced a 10 year old+ Sungrow inverter that failed/out of...
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This happened on the works array over they weekend. Lost most of the magic smoke from it, don’t think l’ll get it all back in again. Also...
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Hi all, My 3 month old grid tie inverter has tripped on 3 occasions at startup. Have read plenty of threads here about similar issues but unclear...
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We have solar PV panels (1.5kw) and I'm curious about fitting an immersion diverter to use any spare solar energy for heating water rather than...
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Hi All, Kit is Solis RHI 3.6k 5G inverter and two LG Chem RESU 6.5k combined with an LG RESU+ box, which is a CAN comms gateway and busbars. I...
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Can someone tell me what the resistance should be for a Solar iboost Clamp? My clamp is regestering zero ohms and I want to confirm this is the...
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Hi all I had my PV/Battery setup installed in May and since then all my excess PV is just fed back to the grid for free. When I initially tried...
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does anyone have 70 of these left over we can buy . been waiting months for them to arrive and the new delivery date has today been cancelled...
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Hi. I have a UK customer that has an agricultural building that will have a Diesel TPN generator supplying a corn dryer electrical installation...
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My first solariboost+ was installed in 2015. In July 2019 it went dead, power good. Marlec supplied me with a reduced cost unit (£149) which was...
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How do I limit or feed inrush current for higher constant current use? If I could find solution, then the chosen battery cell type can have much...
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Hie. How can I size my protective devices for my solar installations because most breakers keep burning out. I'm I missing something?
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i have 4 x 1.2 kw systems and i want something like powerwall or powervault to use excess energy during day toi charge batteries which will...
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G'day, In order to lower my electricity bill, I want to use the power of the sun to heat my hot tub. The setup is the following: A 100W solar...
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Just had an electrician doing some work and thought we would need to restart the inverter to get it going again so we were going to turn the DC...
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Hello I’m new to the forum (posting on it anyway). I could do with some advice... Over the last 2 years I have been subcontracted (labour only)...
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Hello everyone, hope your all well. So I have a little time on my hands and decided I would use it to build a small solar solution to heat the...
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I have a full time job in industrial but i also do a small amount of domestic work (mainly periodic testing) on the side. I would like to do a...
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Hello All, We're primarily an EV charger installer and, as many of you know, there is a grant system in place for this. It essentially means we...
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Can anyone help with Device error 42 on a SolarMax inverter?
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This is what I want, 2 lights operating on the same 12v circuit individually. Will it work? Because there are two paths when both lights are...
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Good evening all - I used to be a member of this forum ages ago, but couldn't work out what my username and old email address was, so decided it...
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Got a advert through the door, obviously targeted, as I have panels on my roof. A company who would install a battery system to store the excess...
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Hi all just registered and looking for an answer to an issue with my installation. I will give you the spec first. Two X BP solar panels each...
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Newby from Tasmania. After replacing failed Zetter a/c relay following 031, a quick, cheap and simple operation, there is now an intermittent 013...
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