🏡 Better Homes OffshoreDrilling's (mostly) DIY Solar install extravaganza.

[smug]

Okay. I had to try out the Wago connectors and love them. Wire nuts are for the garbage now.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

We good. In NYC for the week but I can turn it on when I’m back home.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

just threw the switches and breakers, making a whopping 173W!!! I’ve got one inverter that’s not connecting in an easy spot to get to thank god. May just be distance from the wireless gateway or something’s up. Easy things first

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

just threw the switches and breakers, making a whopping 173W!!! I’ve got one inverter that’s not connecting in an easy spot to get to thank god. May just be distance from the wireless gateway or something’s up. Easy things first
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Lemme come over and charge my phone.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Quit hogging all the power

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Sun is at a low angle right now, not enough intensity to generate enough for inverters to bump it up to 240v

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Quit hogging all the power

I'm sorry, I'll just use it to power up my single LED flash light instead.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Shine it back at the panels, perpetual power

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Shine it back at the panels, perpetual power

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

System hasn’t generated shit yet. The monitoring kind of sucks ass too, I’m going to toss on something aftermarket down the road for a better idea of what I’m making. Just tossing an amp clamp on it, system is making almost 2x what the app says

Found I have a bad inverter as well. Luckily it’s behind the easiest spot to get to.

Panels output voltage, voltage at the AC trunk, can’t communicate with it and no status/diagnostic LED.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

System hasn’t generated shit yet. The monitoring kind of sucks ass too, I’m going to toss on something aftermarket down the road for a better idea of what I’m making. Just tossing an amp clamp on it, system is making almost 2x what the app says

Found I have a bad inverter as well. Luckily it’s behind the easiest spot to get to.

Panels output voltage, voltage at the AC trunk, can’t communicate with it and no status/diagnostic LED.

So, what you're saying is, solar is the way of the future and we need to eliminate dino fuels.

 

[Eagle]

Damn that’s crazy. One inverter knocked you down that far on production? Granted the overcast weather is not helping on production today…

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

I have nothing to compare it to so I have no idea what’s normal or not. Getting this inverter sorted first and then I’ll prob be stuck waiting until spring to get any answers

 

[Eagle]

173w? My tiny setup is capable of 2400w output and carries load of 1500w no problem, esp when the sun is out. Have you been running this thing prior disconnected from the grid but still producing?

Also, did you go with batteries in your setup?

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

173w? My tiny setup is capable of 2400w output and carries load of 1500w no problem, esp when the sun is out. Have you been running this thing prior disconnected from the grid but still producing?

Also, did you go with batteries in your setup?

No batteries. System won’t run unless it’s seeing voltage from the grid. Got as high as 500ish Watts yesterday lol.

 

[Eagle]

How many panels and what size are you running? My inverters won’t kick up without batt voltage above a certain level, so I see how you could have been stuck there.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

23 370W panels

I have to dig into some specs and see if I can make this make sense

 

[Eagle]

Holy damn! You’re going to push some crazy power with that! Makes my junk look like tinker toys… 4x 200w panels

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

It’s supposed to offset 100% of my usage.

Making enough to offset my TV

 

[Eagle]

Yeah, something isn’t quite right yet is all. Did you get into customized inverter config yet?

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

HELL YEAH BROTHER

Have had zero time to look at anything except the bad inverter. Prob won’t resolve anything until spring at this point.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

HELL YEAH BROTHER
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Have had zero time to look at anything except the bad inverter. Prob won’t resolve anything until spring at this point.

Can charge your phone a bit today...FOR FREE!!!!!!

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

1.21 jiggawatts

 

[Eagle]

You should be making like 12000! Still not right