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Al G
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Amen MrbillM...I have invested heavily in it...my tomorrow is a stake...I cannot be wrong. Don't get me wrong I will not lose, because I was in early
so I can take a big drop, but would like to drink all the pacifico I want
Albert G
Remember, if you haven\'t got a smile on your face and laughter in your heart, then you are just a sour old fart!....
The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.
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BajaDave
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As a couple of others have eluded to, an advantage with the MX60 Outback unit is it's internal buck converter, meaning you can use an array with a
voltage up to 72 to charge a battery bank of any voltage, even 12. I have 3 130 watt cells that are wired in series to send a lower amperage (7.5)
but higher voltage (52) feed to the MX60, which then converts it back the other way to 12 volts at higher amps. A HUGE advantage of this feature is
to allow much smaller wire run from the combiner to the MX60, with lower losses. Copper is outrageously priced right now, so it's a pretty
substantial savings for a 35' run.
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tortuga
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reveiw of costco .com solar set
I will jump in here. I din't read all the posts here so sorry if this is redundent .
Certainly most of you guys are very experienced with solar , probably having large systems . Any ways all I want to say is that ,after looking
around the internet , I found a 60 watt set at costco.com . I have bought two sets so far . One i have set up for our house I'm only running about a
100 or so watts which with the use of cfl 's has our kitchen and living room covered pretty well. About 500 sq. ft. is all. we have had a couple of
power outages lately . It is cool to still have lights .
The other set we use when we are in Baja for our 24 ft. trailer. It has been totaly suffecient for our needs . Set it up and forget about it . The
best part is I don't have Mrs. Tortuga on my case for running our gen set . Never have liked generators anyways ( feel guilty running one)
So to make a long story short . I would recomend this set to someone who doesn't want to invest lots of money or know much about the solar thing
yet. It is all plug and play for $350.00 .
You will need deep cycle batteries . I bought walmarts trolling batts for $50.00 ea. I did find that most of the rv batteries are so called
hybrids ( cca s ) etc. The trolling batteries actually are rated in amp hrs. 75 which I know are babies to you big guys but they work fine for our
trailer.
Well thanks for your time and I am looking forward to being of grid in Los Barriles some day ( I guess I am already, Dugh!) I would like to check out
some of the big systems you guys have down there. Also thanks for not putting more of a strain on their power grid and environment .
Tortuga
P.S. Did not mention earlier but the solar set I am refering to here is the sunforce brand
[Edited on 11-10-2007 by tortuga]
[Edited on 11-11-2007 by tortuga]
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tortuga
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trolling battery
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MrBillM
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Walmart A-OK
Right now, I have Five separate arrays and have been using the Walmart Deep-Cycle Trolling batteries on the Four Smaller ones with a total of Eight
batteries in use. They are priced good, work well and seem to have a 3-4 year life cycle. No complaints.
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tortuga
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Senoir Bill
Do you think or know if they are using solid lead plates in those things ? They seem heavier than the hybrid I have (interstate rv marine) Thanks
Tortuga .
What is cool for me about this subject , is in my mind going to Baja California , is about getting by without power etc . Figuring out how to be
selfsuffient while there . This subject speaks to all that . Now for most of us that have second homes there We can help the natural environment by
being off grid . That is very exciting to me . As for you guys who are already . Right on ! I suppose also if there is a market for a technology then
improvements in that technology will follow . I'll bet you guys who have been around solar for a while have seen improvements over the years . To bad
people don't buy p.v. stuff like they buy computers and digital cameras !
Buen Dia , Tortuga
[Edited on 11-10-2007 by tortuga]
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MrBillM
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No Se !
I checked the documentation I have and it doesn't specify the Cell composition. A cursory Net search produced negative results on that particular
question. I did read on a Bass-Fishing site that they are the Number one selling battery in that class. That might be, of course, simply because
Wal-Mart is so big AND they sponsor a Bass-Tournament yearly in the Everstart name.
They do seem to be pretty good, though. I read a lot of comments on the various "Bass" forums and they were all favorable.
If I ever run across the composition answer, I'll let you know.
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