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    LHBA Member rreidnauer's Avatar
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    Oh, and is that AC switch being used on DC?
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    Quote Originally Posted by rreidnauer View Post
    Oh, and is that AC switch being used on DC?
    I think that switch is on the AC side. I'm wondering if you couldn't bump up the wire size from battery to inverter. Not a long run but that is the side where less resistance really matters.

    I can't chime in on the sine wave inverter thing. When we bought our inverter, we thought we were getting a bargain at $1 per watt for our 2,000 watt Trace square wave. I guess it has been a few years. By the way, that inverter and the expensive solar panels are still going strong in the bus after all those years.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rreidnauer View Post
    Oh, and is that AC switch being used on DC?
    I must confess that that standard light switch is the one I use to isolate the PV array from the rest. I figured it wouldn't matter much since it's only a 10 amp load. Did I figure wrong?

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