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| Posted: 03:41am 15 Dec 2023 |
G'Day Guy's,
Well finished the night shift for the week and running on 3 hours sleep decided to go hunting for some gear to get this solar up.
First went to home of 12 volt where basically they said anything over 2 panels on the roof of a van is over their head and they did offer a victron where I siad yea YOU give me $500 and I'll bring it back dead 2 weeks after the warranty runs out
that got a blank face so onto the next shop.Solar Wholesalers where they basically said we don't deal with Joe public and a guy around the corner said just go to MM mate thats where we get our gear from.
So like a kid in a candy shop 3 packs of 5 pairs of MC-4 connectors, the crimper for them too. A couple of IP67 box's to terminate the strings on the roof so only a couple of wires come down and a 100 metre roll of 4sqmm solar cable. Also got a dozen gland fittings so I can terminate each wire in the box's.
So now off to trawl this site for the BOM file on the 45 amp MTTP as I my good ol' computer finally went to rest as the second HD had failed. So I still have 2 circuit boards left so when i find that BOM I'll order 2 sets from Digikey and make both those boards so each array have have it's own tracker. Just hope the digikey package gets here before xmas.
Cheers Bryan
Edit: Found the BOM and chose 7 days shipping which was free for the $250+ order so this weekend time to jerry wire up another LCD as that first one I made is still working I will need another.
Edited 2023-12-15 14:18 by Bryan1