ThumperFinished reinstalling the shed off-grid solar system. Much cleaner and properly wired this time. The battery is too small for the system, but enough for the current workload! Thanks again to super mouse @twigmouse for help figuring out how to do this right!
MEDS 🔜 ACFI@thumper @twigmouse Omg horny for circuit breakers.
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@thumper @twigmouse love it. We did something very similar ourselves in the Airstream with 500w of solar and 600Ah of battery.
Bunny Mickley@thumper @twigmouse Oh cool, I’ve started getting into solar, too. Are the black boxes fuses?
@opsnlops They could be, but I used breakers instead. I considered disconnect switches and fuses and then realized the breakers would serve the same purpose in one device. :)
@thumper Ah, yeah, that makes sense. I don't have any in-line right now, but my load is like 850ma for some outside lighting. :)
I've been thinking that I should get some sort of fuse in line, but I'm not sure what to use for 12v. Maybe a car fuse? Hummmm
@opsnlops Fuses are to protect the wire, so if it's say 12AWG wire for example, that'd be 25A max, 20A nominal, I would use a 20A fuse/breaker. I used this one from amazon, you can save a couple bucks if you get a multipack of like blade fuse holders for auto applications.
Straander@thumper @twigmouse I’m curious what your load is that can draw up to a kilowatt of power, but for not more then 15 minutes total in a charging cycle.
@Straander The load I have right now is lights and chargers for cordless tools, like 100w. The battery is only 20A sustained load so I can only do 240w with that battery anyway. The inverter is sized for future when I want to run actual power tools, and for that I'd have a battery 4-5x bigger :)
@thumper ahhh. Makes sense now
@Straander Mostly it was just an opportunity to learn and add some convenience to the shed.