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Yes, I'd had my eye on marketplace and gumtree for months but all the reasonably priced ones were up in London or northern England and I'm down in North Devon. This one turned up at a military surplus place in Plymouth so only an hour's drive away. Had to buy some support brackets for the back of th...

After getting our extensions built over the past year, I finally managed to get the inverters and batteries moved into their new home. Picked up a used server rack for £90 which fits the 8 x US3000 pylon tech batteries. Luxpower EPS output feeds a consumer unit which runs all the house lighting and ...

Thanks Ronski, that's what I've ended up doing. Now I think about it, it's obvious :) here's a few photos of the install https://i.postimg.cc/mzTCF5nq/temp-Image-KVLm-FY.avif https://i.postimg.cc/ykGmrnJg/temp-Imageso3hxl.avif https://i.postimg.cc/Y4K1t9zt/temp-Imageta-Cz-OC.avif https://i.postimg.c...

Update. Installed the charge controller and power connectors this afternoon. 3D printed a bulkhead holder for a pair of power pole connectors, one for the solar panel to connect to the controller and another for a regular battery charger so I don’t have to remove the battery to give it the occasiona...

Thanks very much for the detailed reply, that's really helpful.

This morning I've managed to finally find a diagram showing a charger in the circuit which shows it to be on the load side

I've recently added a Junktek bluetooth battery monitor/shunt to the battery in our caravan to keep an eye on the state of the battery. The negative lead now comes from the battery to the shunt and then on to the rest of the power system. As I've just turned a couple of old 80w pv panels into a fold...

Ok, put the panels out in the sunshine and measured across the various connectors. Looking at the photo, numbered 1-4 left to right, voltages as follows: 1-2=10.5 1-3=10.5 1-4=20.8 2-3=0 2-4=10.2 3-4=10.2 Variance probably due to light level variation between readings. So, connected the wires to 1 &...

Thanks for the replies. Wasn’t sure if the diodes were just to prevent battery discharge or something else because of the two sets of terminals. I’ll put the meter on them today and report back.

Hi all, been a bit quiet of late, waiting for the sparky to come and move the inverters and batteries to their new home in the extension we've built. Meanwhile, my wife has had a summer house built at the bottom of the field and we've just picked up a VTOMAN FlashSpeed 1500 Portable Power Station to...

I missed on the extra Kirk hill but will put my remaining 40% into the new solar farm, particularly as they've announced it's only 20 miles from me. It sounds like they'll be doing some great environmental work on the site as well from what's in the email I received this morning.