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At a nominal 50v battery voltage, you would expect a 5kW inverter to draw 100A max.But that assumes the current is steady. In reality, most loads will...
I too don't like the look of that breaker on the Battery wires. We discussed adequately-sized DC breakers earlier on this topic. You can buy them on e...
Having seen the photos, I too have a plethora of questions! Why is the red/yellow "emergency breaker" placed so high up and to the right?This is w...
I agree with @chickenbig that we need more information on what's connected to the underside of the 3000-SE unit. Another photo perhaps? There also a...
Simply swapping around CT clamps doesn't appeal to me as a logical approach! Assuming that your solar installation and its grid-tied inverter preced...
Those last three photos don't show an 8kW shower in use. They show 1.6kW being used within the home, which is coincidentally matched by the electric...
There's got to be a joke in there somewhere @morgan, but I can't work out if Givenergy is the punchline 🤨 ... alternatively, start a new topic with...
Thanks @misterb. I usually reduce the resolution of a photo to about 800 pixels horizontally before uploading to this forum.Do you have an image edito...
Hi @misterb - we're going to need a bit more than that to help us understand the issue. Firstly, a set of 280Ah cells should be capable of 'feeding'...
I don't understand how Octopus could not have checked your area first. It's that check which allows DCC to specify the Communications Hub which is sup...
And do we remember the inventor, Harold Bate? In the late 1960's he developed a system to create methane from chicken poop, on which he ran his ca...
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