The same people who are worried about me DEF deleting my diesel truck are shipping cookies from india for us to eat.

Just a quick post about solar. Many people want to use solar trackers to make their panels make more power all day long. The practical side of this is that the panels are cheaper than the tracking mechanism. Additionally, you will have to do maintenance and repairs on the tracker. Today I rode past the solar farm shown here and saw about 1/4 of the rows of panels were not pointed at the sun. They were pointed east and were making less power than if they had been parked facing straight up. If the commercial guys can't keep up with trackers, trust me, you don't want to either. Just add more panels.

What is the average summer temperature in that?

Here is the "not good deal" of the year... I'm unsure of the differences between these enphase microinverters, but I do know you need one per solar panel. If you install a system with 32 panels, you'll spend $4390 on microinverters. On the other hand you could buy a EG4 12000xp for $2500 AND two 5kwh server rack batteries for the same money..... and that system would be a lot more useful.

The microinverters need a grid (or simulated 240vac signal) to make power at all. They must be either grid tied or connected to an inverter that can control them. They are what you call AC Coupled.

Unistrut ground mount. Expensive... and you have to ground bond each panel and each part of it. But easily done.

Here's the first full month of solar for my neighbor's system.... look at this february vs last february. 1600kwh vs 359kwh this month. We had two screwups...

1)I didn't understand the failure mode of victron MPPTs and should not have connected all of them to all solar panels collectively. That has been resolved by separating the panels into groups for each MPPT and adding a 60amp fuse in line. Also victron replaced the two MPPTs under warranty.

2)we used ferules on the battery cable into the battery breaker and one of the wires partially pulled out causing the breaker to overheat. This meant that he lost 25% of his battery reserve and his system shut down around midnight. that has been resolved by fixing the wires and also programming his inverter to connect to the grid based on SoC AND low voltage.

This system is so overpaneled that as the sun gets higher in the sky he makes more and more power earlier in the day.

Today I pulled up fence posts for the driveway entrance we created last year. Just the first few of them. I reset them in a 16' radius arc to blend with the new fence we're running to the back fence line. Remember the trees I cut down the other day? I'm running a 975' long livestock fence that will run beside the green house. The old fence is in very poor shape and we tore it down in order to grade the land on the high side of the greenhouse. So now we have a swale were the fenc used to be and we're rebuilding the fence 30' offset from teh greenhouse. I guess this will all make sense when it's down. Anway, I redid the end of the driveway fence to be an arc to make mowing easier and we're moving a long fence to a slightly different line. We set a few wooden posts at the ends and center of the run today. More h-bridges tomorrow.