"It's 6 amps outside", that's a classic Andy everyone will be stealing that one from you.

I love it " Its Sunny outside about 6 amps" sooo true, my wife looks at me funny when I say things like that lol

Good video, here in UK weather is 100mA from 100W of solar.

I'm sure it's mentioned in one of the almost 250 comments but if you were planning on running loads like that often a small capacitor banks would smooth that draw curve out. As I've mentioned in other videos beside my 400ah banks for garage and home, in my car audio build I use 2-630 farad ultracaps to handle surges and a bunch of lithium feeding the cap banks. It makes for extremely even draw and a whole sh"%ton of peak draw that even the lithium doesn't come close to providing. This is one of my many favorite videos of yours I love seeing things put to the test

Thanks for this video. I always suspected that Victron are not designed for hot climates. Your video just confirmed this.

Thank you sir for sharing your developing story - I am in the process of setting up a off grid garage. I have learned a lot from watching your channel and I thank you for all of your efforts :)

Hi Andy, You might want to clean off the conductive grease you used. I believe that many manufacturers indicate not to use grease for primary power connections (between the conductors, in other words between the battery terminal and the bus bar). Also, it might be that the nuts are slowly turning as you have a lot of temperature changes day to night so that thermal cycling might let the nut spin a little bit. maybe better spring washers, or even a nylock nut to prevent that from happening.

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I am SO envious of your beautiful property. If I stick my arms out of my house windows, I can almost touch my neighbors house. NYC suburban plight

Love it! Its 40amps out! You should make that T-shirt!!!💥💥🤘

You are on the cutting edge 👍👍

Great job on the little details terminal to bus bar in millivolts . Thank you for this knowledge of the information you bring to the KZread audience. Your cabinet I think you need to install a fan temperature control to get the best power consumption out of your unit due to the heat.

Andy, vielen Dank, Top Videos wie immer :-)

Your videos are very detailed and informative . Thank you so much for that . Regarding the inverter ratings , VA is the apparent power not taking the power factor of the load into consideration . Kw is the real power taking the Pf into consideration . Most AC generating devices are rated at a PF of 0.8 so your 3Kva inverter can only give 2.4Kw

I used to polish my terminal everyday, when I was young, almost never anymore...What a drag it is getting old...

Very interesting connectivity issue!

Why is so unknown to everyone inverter spec is for 20C degree. Over 30 you get roughly 75% top close to 40 under 50% only without overtemp. Surface temp is absolutely not even close to internal when you get that inside it is around 80C degree internal , it switch of close to a hundred. I tried to tell somewhere back in time but unlikely read that. That incredibly hot climate simply just take a double on a desired number. This why i also wrote the cabinet is completely unnecessary for that climate. Nice to see the experiment, i like it very educational. Nice garden!

The S rating on the shredder is service factor. S 1 is the maximum continuous load. The S6 is the maximum it can do but only for 60% if the time. Most machine tools are rated like that as it allow manufacture using a smaller motor.

Please look at the space requirements for the inverter. The electrical cabinet is going to need ventilation if you want to use it at higher loads.

I think by polishing the terminals, you made them so smooth, that the grease is now evenly spread between the layers. If they are not smooth, the small elevations and grooves will be pushed "into" each other leaving the grease in the "gaps".