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I have been thinking of going solar for some time and decided to pull the plug. My wants are a 400 to 500 watt system. I have four 12 volt batteries with 340ah. I am not planning on changing b...
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EDIT--it says they give you two each of pos and neg #4 3 ft long. That is the same as the 2000w Vector wiring "kit". If you want to go to 5 ft you have to extend the wires or go fatter with singles.
You don't have to make pos and neg the same length. You can use the two #4s at 3 ft and make the neg 7 ft. You will have the shunt on the neg anyway, so put the shunt at 3 ft from the neg side of the inverter and run the single fat shunt to battery neg post wire the other 4 ft.
So all you need now is one fat wire about four ft long.
Not sure I'm following you. Are you saying #4awg or 4/0?
If Renogy provides two sets of #4 are they intending that the two positive cables be ran together combining the two wires as one? If so, seems like a strange way to do it. 3 feet of positive cable still falls short for my application of 5 feet.
I may still be looking for heavier wire. Just need to figure out what size. I'm leaning towards 1/0.
I am still waiting for delivery of the inverter so, I have no manual. I Should get it tomorrow.
Thanks for the pdf
You don't have to make pos and neg the same length. You can use the two #4s at 3 ft and make the neg 7 ft. You will have the shunt on the neg anyway, so put the shunt at 3 ft from the neg side of the inverter and run the single fat shunt to battery neg post wire the other 4 ft.
So all you need now is one fat wire about four ft long.
Not sure I'm following you. Are you saying #4awg or 4/0?
If Renogy provides two sets of #4 are they intending that the two positive cables be ran together combining the two wires as one? If so, seems like a strange way to do it. 3 feet of positive cable still falls short for my application of 5 feet.
I may still be looking for heavier wire. Just need to figure out what size. I'm leaning towards 1/0.
I am still waiting for delivery of the inverter so, I have no manual. I Should get it tomorrow.
Thanks for the pdf
