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Sometimes, but rarely on the larger panels, they tend to be included in small panels intended as battery maintainers or similar applications. The problem is that every time a diode is introduced into the circuit there's a volt-drop of around 0.8V (power schottky device). With 10 panels in series that's 8V that's not getting through (80W @ 10A). Some do advocate adding a single blocking diode to each string and they are also sometimes included in the combiner box. As always, there are many ways to skin a cat.

I'm with @JBChiangRai unless your "combiner" actually combines two or more strings into a single output. in the case of multiple parallel strings each individual string should have a suitable fuse, then all those fuses feed a single breaker. The reasoning is thus. If you have, say, three 10A strings in parallel then in the event of a failed (short) panel in one string (reducing its output voltage) the other strings will push current "backwards" through that string possibly resulting in a hotspot and conflagration. I suspect the fuses in the "not actually combiner" units are simply a result of just taking out the extra strings from a real combiner design without really understanding what's going on.

Yup. The cars were Ford Zephyr and Ford Zodiac, dad had an old police Zephyr-six as a mini-cab long long ago.

Let's not forget Bergerac with John Nettles later of Midsomer Murders. Anybody remember The Expert with Marius Goring?? How about The Chinese Detective with David Yip? And, not a police show but a private investigator, Shoestring with Trevor Eve later in Waking the Dead. And for the really ancient, Dixon of Dock Green (Jack Warner) "evening all" and Z-Cars (many famous names) "Z victor one to BD". Softly Softly a Z-Cars spin off with Barlow and Watt followed by Task Force!

Yup, and Minder.

I finally got my backside in gear and went to our local private hospital. OPD/ER doc said it was "just a mole" and nothing to worry about, would I like it removed anyway? 40 minutes later I was minus 1 mole, plus 1 neatly stitched up hole and an appointment for Friday to have the dressing changed. It actually took longer to pay the 8k bill than to have the job done. The bill was less than I paid at the vets yesterday with our two Chihuahuas If nothing else it made Madam happy (most important) and will stop my mum bugging me every time we speak 🙂

We've found them in makro in the past (frozen), but plenty on Lazada both natural and collagen casings.

It can never hurt to have more protection 🙂 Don't forget you will need a Type-B RCD/RCBO on that circuit as well.

The Deye unit works just fine with no BMS comms, many people like to run "open-loop" like this because it give them "more control" over the charge parameters. Personally I run everything "closed-loop" (with comms) which allows the BMS(s) to control what the inverter does. Each to his own. I'm pretty sure the Deye will talk to the JK BMS (you will need to verify which protocols are supported by each). Note that our Liyuan boxes have Seplos BMS's I was running for a while with several non-communicating packs in parallel with ones that communicated. It worked just fine in both open and closed loop.

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The ferrite rings are a new thing, only my latest inverter came with them. They are supposed to reduce EM (electromagnetic) interference, I admit mine are still in the bag What communication protocol is supported by your existing batteries??

Dumb question. Why did you change passport?? Is your name likely to have been confused with someone else?

Moved to the right forum.

Did you get any form of "denied entry" stamp in your passport? Or for that matter, any paperwork whatever to sign? Please post an image of same.

Yeah, those ruddy Captchas are hard even for those with good sight. It usually takes me a couple of tries because the "motorbike" (or whatever) is taking up a couple of pixels bottm right of the image 😞 Do you have a friend who can help deal with them for you? 🙂 I "think" there's an alternative where they email a code to your registered email address, assuming you added one that is.

We have 20A MCBs but 25A would be fine. To be honest, unless you have more than two strings in parallel you don't actually NEED over-current protection, the panels themselves will self-limit. It's nice to be able to turn off the solar mind.

Ah, got it. Yes it will work, yes it will be safe. BUT Make sure you place decent 2-pole surge arrestors on BOTH ends of the grid and load wires. We don't want nasties being picked up by those long runs and damaging anything. You might consider running an earth bond between the two areas anyway, I probably would, belt-and-braces time. Also, use DC surge arrestors on your solar panel inputs. EDIT Is the run between the locations underground or aerial??

We are wired like this: - The earth bar connected to the inverter metalwork is actually the car-port which also earths all the panel metalwork. This actually also connects to the house ground bar, it was originally a "fortuitous" connection (it just happened via steelwork), but I installed a proper copper link to tie everything together. In reality, it makes no odds whatever, it will work and be safe either way.