PSA for those that don't know:
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300W at 14.5V is a bit over 20A. Factoring in a of safety margin, you'll want to use 10g wire for that, and you don't want to connect it to the battery with alligator clips. Most of those are not Grippy and chonky enough to sustain that kind of load for long, if at all. That means probably modifying your battery cable terminals, which requires proper tools to crimp connections that have as low a resistance as possible so you don't have localized heating, which leads to fires.
All of this odd totally doable, but it isn't obvious his to do everything correctly so you don't burn stuff out or up.
#psa #electricalsafety #inverters #nofires #doitright
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I am chill but uncool.
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In preparation for the supposed #snowpocalypse, I manually topped off the big battery pack:
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They are currently top balancing pretty much perfectly, and I love seeing curves like this as the current ramps down as the voltage setpoint is reached:
Also, based on the logged kWh, I've revised the amp-hour capacity of the cells to 660Ah from the paper spec 628Ah (rated at 314Ah per cell nominally):
My dad got some more fuel oil delivered a few days ago. The propane tanks for the generator are at a good level. We've got plenty of wood. Now the battery pack is topped off as another layer of redundancy.
The freezer is about half full (it's big, so, theta l there's a lot), but even when I was shopping today, no one was out panicking since this is just winter in Maine.
#Maine #winter #snow #off-grid #solar #mb31 #selfsufficiency #selfreign #prepping #ilikebigpacksandicannotlie #ready
I like big packs and I cannot lie! ๐
They are currently top balancing pretty much perfectly, and I love seeing curves like this as the current ramps down as the voltage setpoint is reached:
Also, based on the logged kWh, I've revised the amp-hour capacity of the cells to 660Ah from the paper spec 628Ah (rated at 314Ah per cell nominally):

I am always down for spiced rum. What do y'all think?
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I would rather have ten machine guns than one bitcoin.
I'm not a BTC maxi. ๐คฃ
#realmoney
I'm not a BTC maxi. ๐คฃ
#realmoney
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I think that we should start funding this. Makes way more sense than a lot of the dumb stuff people spend money on.
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The coming storm:

