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The coupler safety pin was still in place after it decoupled? Ouch. Are there signs that the coupler was bent, or temporarily flexed, by bouncing and dragged on the pavement? Some ideas: - Perhaps t… (View Post)

@CharlieRN: Cloudy days provide way less energy than sunny ones do, so with the typical phantom loads over a week the BB could easily be nearly drained. You don’t mention whether the battery switch i… (View Post)

I installed a transfer switch and inverter, for the same reason. To prevent the converter from drawing down the battery, most of the time its circuit breaker is turned off. (The two solar panels usu… (View Post)

This confused me the first time my batteries got to “float” — even with my engineering degree. The solar input to the controller closely tracks how much juice goes into the battery. The excess is wa… (View Post)

There are many reports of the Norcold 740 fridge in a CS using 500-something watt-hours per day. The CS kitchen area is well sealed off from the outside, so all the heat pumped out of the refrigerato… (View Post)