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RE: Adding 5 More Panels to My Growatt Inverter – Second String Questions on Specs, Cabling & Configuration

It's exactly the right sort of question to ask here @david999 Yes, the positive output from the first PV panel on the array should connect to the p...

3 months ago
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread

In case @editor is worried about there being a surge of queries to this Forum once Amazon, Lidl, Ikea and others start shipping plug-in solar and plug...

3 months ago
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread

Aaagh! You shouldn't have your inverters wired so as to allow that to occur. The very fact that you're even considering it tells us the sort of 'm...

3 months ago
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RE: Adding 5 More Panels to My Growatt Inverter – Second String Questions on Specs, Cabling & Configuration

An earth bond to the aluminium frame is required if the solar panels can be touched. So that would apply if they were on a main house roof, for exam...

3 months ago
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RE: Seeking ideas / information / commiseration - Pure Drive

Oh woe!   1: I've just read the Solis Inverter specs and Installation Manual for a S6-GR1P3K. I think you have a typo because I can't find a ...

3 months ago
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RE: Adding 5 More Panels to My Growatt Inverter – Second String Questions on Specs, Cabling & Configuration

Well those are "MC4" plugs and sockets. Yes the ones on the left do indeed look different to those on the right. But one's the male half and the oth...

3 months ago
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RE: Growatt Power Mode

Hah! Well I guess we're all in the realm of conjecture. Perhaps "Consumption Mode" is a mechanism which requires input from another device, such ...

3 months ago
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RE: Adding 5 More Panels to My Growatt Inverter – Second String Questions on Specs, Cabling & Configuration

There are just too many unknowns for me to comment on panel positioning. You refer to the roof having a low point, which suggests it's sloping.We al...

3 months ago
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RE: Adding 5 More Panels to My Growatt Inverter – Second String Questions on Specs, Cabling & Configuration

We just posted simultaneously. If the boxes are to be bolted down, then they're going to need 100kg of ballast in addition. Simply put large washe...

3 months ago
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RE: Adding 5 More Panels to My Growatt Inverter – Second String Questions on Specs, Cabling & Configuration

Since you're positioning the boxes directly above joists, and then screwing them down, I can't see any reason why you'd need to position them further ...

3 months ago
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Wonderful! And have the authors of the Warm Home Plan found a way for those in energy poverty to fit a heat pump do we think?Where do they get the r...

3 months ago
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

That's useful. Thanks @jamespa Can I use that quotation when I next hold an energy seminar in the fuel-poverty areas of North Cornwall and Devon? &...

3 months ago
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