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    Steel Soldiers giveaway sponsored by hawkerbattery.com

    These batteries would’ve an incredible upgrade to my kit!]
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    Bought An Expandable Shelter

    Hello. Did not know what Forum to put this in, so here we are. I purchased an AAR expandable shelter. PDF brochure attached. The plan is to hack the 3 Phase requirement so I can run the A/C and lights on regular single phase. It will be used as a camping spot while I'm on my rural land clearing...
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    Steel Soldiers giveaway sponsored by hawkerbattery.com

    What a great contest.
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    Tennessee Members, sign in.

    Amen..we'll take a little gourmet where we can get it! I think the FC in Athens also has a good cheese selection...and salad and olive bar.
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    Tennessee Members, sign in.

    Sweet! We are near closing on 125 acres south of you. Athens just got an Aldi..opened last week. It's highbrow for up here I'd say.
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    Tennessee Members, sign in.

    Hey BeerCan. I'm still housed in Benton (about an hour east of Rhea / Dayton) but get over there frequently. We go to church at Westminster Pres. Monkeytown Brewery is good. There's a good range up in Evensville. Of course fishing is amazing. Holler at me and we'll arrange a sit down.
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    I meant to reply specifically. The diesel generator is an off the shelf Gillette 6500 for mobile applications. It's got it's own 12v battery and not wired into the 24v system except into the Inverters.
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    The saga continues. Everything is up and running, 5x5. Left the diesel generator as backup power overnight for a test, and the return fuel valve blew off and hosed the engine compartment with diesel, until the unit drained the tank. That's what I get for not checking all the connections. Other...
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    Jackpot. The $50 24v 7a charger did the trick, with just 30 minutes on the charge. It probably would have worked with just a jolt... Batteries showing 55% charge, after an unknown but probably LONG period of disuse. Now I'll run through each energy source and learn how it interacts with the...
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    Kayak1 wins the prize of the day... Talked to battery tech support yesterday. Basically, the BMS (large lithiums all have built in BMS for the most part) will put itself to sleep after a period of time (he thought 1 year) of no charge or discharge. This is not in any manual on the batteries...
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    UPDATE. First, thanks for the suggestions. Lacking the wiring diagram, I've been hand over hand through the entire system. All roads lead to the Outback charge controller. It's looking for 10.3 v to activate. While I get 24v on the meter right at the big disconnect fitting, once I plug it in to...
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    It’s just a breaker.
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    ZeroBaseEnergy.com is down. Their Twitter and FB have not been updated since 2018. I'm wondering if they were another flash in the pan grift? Is there a way to search for manuals on military equipment?
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    I'm sure the MilSpec manual on deploying this unit would probably answer the question but the Zero Base Energy folks have yet to respond to my email.
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    There is a big red Emergency stop button, but it's reset. I'm stumped. Batteries have 24.6 v at the big plug disconnect. I plugged shore power in (120v) and nothing. No lights, no inverter lighting up as energized, etc. Definitely missing something somewhere. The most obvious is with the...
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    Even if I part it out, there is way more used market value that what I paid. The genset new is $5k, batteries look like they are $4k each, and there are two, etc. This unit looks like it was never used or deployed. I have a sneaking suspicion that there is some plug or switch somewhere that...
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    Thanks for looking. I’ll post along the way for future posterity.
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    Zero Energy Trailer - Solar/Diesel hybrid - Know anything?

    I was out the door at $2800
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