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Excellent free e-book on all things Solar

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Victron have just released their first version of "Wiring Unlimited" - see https://www.victronenergy.com/blog/2019/09/03/wiring-unlimited/

Although produced by Victron, this book covers a wide range of topics that apply to any installation, irrespective of the brand of equipment.  Topics covered are as follows:

  • Ohm’s Law
  • Power
  • Conductivity and resistance
  • Current, cable resistance and voltage drop
  • Negative effects of cable voltage drop
  • Ripple
  • Battery bank wiring
  • Battery bank
  • Large battery banks
  • Parallel battery bank wiring
  • Battery bank balancing
  • Battery bank midpoint
  • DC wiring
  • Select the right cable
  • Busbars
  • Cable connections
  • Fuses and circuit breakers
  • DC isolation switches
  • Shunt
  • Parallel and/or 3 phase system DC wiring
  • Large system busbars
  • Voltage sensing and compensation
  • Solar panels
  • Communication wiring
  • Data signals
  • Interference
  • Communication cables and connector types
  • Interfaces
  • AC wiring
  • Power generation
  • Distribution networks
  • System current VA and Watt
  • AC wiring
  • Fuses and circuit breakers
  • AC bypass switch
  • Special considerations for AC wiring of parallel and/or 3 phase inverter/chargers
  • Ground, earth and electrical safety
  • Electrical safety
  • Earth wiring
  • RCD
  • Neutral to earth link in inverters and in inverter/chargers
  • Mobile installations
  • Isolation and grounding of Victron Equipment
  • System grounding
  • Galvanic corrosion
  • Preventing galvanic corrosion
  • The galvanic isolator
  • The isolation transformer

Enjoy!

2 minutes ago, NigelL said:

Wiring Unlimited

It's absolutely excellent. Margreet did a very good job. It also deals with a support issue that has caused me lots of frustration in the past: Parallel systems that feed into the grid or draw from it proportionally to the load. When you see that.. it is almost ALWAYS a cabling issue. And this book explains it so well.

We should refer all Newbies there first, to start the conversations.

  • 3 months later...

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