Today was the first day we got real sunshine since connecting the 12 shed panels. Yay me – I’m in the 100A club now The above image shows the two new 150/35 MPPT’s combined into one ‘PV Charger’ – producing 2538w between them.
I have been working away at making the bus bars required to connect the new stacks. Here are some progress shots from various stages.
I started mounting the Victron 150/35 MPPT’s.
After a couple of months its become obvious I need more production. This summer has been wetter than usual, and production is probably down on average however I have not been close to filling my battery. It’s obvious to me I need more solar. I had always planned on adding some second-hand panels to my…
Up until today, I have only had an Energy Meter installed at the Grid. My Solar production data has not been available as its AC coupled and connected to the input side of the Victron. To get production data into Victron I required an energy meter specifically to measure production. Without production data, Victron cannot…
Today I temporarily connected the MultiPlus II to the Sub Board in my shed (Phase L1) with 6mm electrical cable and turned it on. The inverter came to life and started supplementing my usage perfectly as it should. Below is a screen shot of what my Enphase graph looks like with the battery.. The consumption…
Not sure why, but I had the urge to make the system bigger even before it was live. On a bit of a spur of the moment purchase, I grabbed a complete Nissan Leaf pack from www.lithium-power.com.au for $3250 delivered from Perth. My first surprise was the seal. In many videos I had watched on…
I had an electrician add a second electrical box to the side of my house to accommodate my essential circuits. He also did a bit of a tidy in the main box and added my EM24 3-phase power meter and a Cat6 cable for it.
As I have some time to wait for my electrician, I thought I would have a go at nickel plating my busbars. In an earlier blog post I created my Nickel plating solution and have been storing it for when it was required. I found a test busbar and attempted nickel plating it. I cleaned…
