I built a cabin 20 years ago with no power within 1 mile. I've been using an onan 4K generator hooked to an xantrex 3624 inverter/charger. Batteries are Napa 6 volt, 8 batteries wired in series then parallel. Last summer bought 4 harbor Freight 100 watt systems (16) panels and bought an epever tracer(an) 40A charge controller. very small system but works pretty well. fast forward to September 2019 and I impulse bought 2 500 watt panels model # XT M 500 from a now out of business company called (Tenk solar) out of minneapolis mn. I was told that these could be hooked up the same as I did with my harbor Freight Panels. After doing some research it appears that they have a hard dc high limit of 59 vdc and in reality I should be using micro inverters converting to ac at the panel. so here's my problem... i'm totally LOST! I have no idea on how to proceed? Do i need the micro inverters and then Hook up to the ac input side of my xantrex? do i just run the dc from the panels to my charge controller? or scrap the panels and change brands? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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