It's time to start looking for a thermal camera of some sort. Over 1kW coming in can heat up bad connections pretty easily. This was near 1500W, the highest peak I've seen on the system yet under testing thusfar. Once more panels go up, the system may peak at over 15kW coming in with enough reflection to the back of the panels. Even at the nominal 12.3kW of the panels, that's still a lot of juice. (Between 215-250A, depending on the battery voltage). I'll be checking every connection for proper torque after a few fast (for the system size) charge cycles.

@Anthony Accioly Here's something that reminded me of you. #clippy #tyrantssuck #killtyrants

Fresh peaches going into the freezer. There's still more. I have no idea why this one tree my dad has is so prolific. #peaches #harvest #freezer

Even cats like solar panels: #cats #castr #solar #solarpanels

I love cornychat. Vic has done such a good job with it. View quoted note →

Good morning. #truth 🤣🤣🤣 #gm #goodmorning

I'm SO bad at CAD. Using FreeCAD makes it worse... I'm learning again. Anyway... I wanted to try a few layouts for solar panels for building the big ground mount: I've decided on the portrait layout. It's near 30ft wide. As opposed to the over 60ft for the landscape layout, and that is too long for the space and work for the strings to the MPPT controlers' voltage limit. You must never exceed the voltage limit on the controller. Being that it gets cold, the voltage rises enough here in Maine to necessitate not running up against that limit in the summer. I'm working on modeling the actual ground mount, though I'll likely have to finish it next week since I'll be out in the wilds the next few days. More info in the Solar Sovereignty simplex group:

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#solar #solarsovereignty #offgrid #diy #saynotohegrid #decentralize #maine #cad #freecad #modeling

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