<div dir="ltr">Hi Jay,<div>It's a recently converted to 48 from 24v system with BI Hi LFP batteries. And I'd like to see all pv's online, hence my need for an up-to-date controller(s).</div><div>Old controller (it replaced a Heliotrope PWM unit, man that's taking me back) Is actually an OB MX60, but too old for a hub port. New inverter is an OB Radian 4048.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 12:06 PM Jay via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Kirk</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">You didn\u2019t give a lot of info but I don\u2019t think there is a product that meets your requirements. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I\u2019m guessing its either 24v or 48v system with with a C40 controller. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Personally I\u2019d leave the old system as 20 year old modules are not cost effectively worth messing with. </div><div dir="ltr">And if you did, you\u2019d get what a couple hundred watts more at max maybe?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">And then use the CC that best fits your system for the 5kw new. 100 amp, midnite or OB or Schneider </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My 2 cents </div><div dir="ltr">Jay</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 1, 2022, at 3:31 PM, Kirk Herander via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" target="_blank">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<div dir="ltr">All,<div>I have an off-grid customer adding more PV to their 20 yr old array. It would be soooo convenient to find a dual channel controller to keep each array separate, instead of sourcing separate new controllers for each array. . The original controller is not mppt. Arrays are 2kw(old Astropowers on roof) and 5kw( bifacials on ground), respectively. Mixing and matching old and new will not work and is bad practice anyway. Thanks.<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a name="m_7525311684608823861_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><b>Kirk Herander / </b></a><b><a href="mailto:kirkh@vermont.solar" title="Send an email to kirkh@vermont.solar; Send an email to kirkh@vermont.solar" style="color:blue" target="_blank">kirkh@vermont.solar</a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Owner|Principal, VT Solar, LLC</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b><i>Celebrating our 31<sup>st</sup> Anniversary 1991-2022!!</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.vermontsolarnow.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7C9f0330d75a244870112408d685311841%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636842843233477645&sdata=0NjyuKeQbEK6245SNnk8X4XnP9Q%2B%2BqtvcALkdDghvk4%3D&reserved=0" title="Click to open in a new window or tab
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