Recent content by 100 Proof

Are you taking your main positive and main negative from your battery bank to the inverter from the same battery? That will definitely cause battery imbalance. They should be wired per the attached drawing.

Won't it just be in bulk charging mode until it hits the CV value and then drop back to the float setting? I'd like to spend some time at the CV setting , an absorption phase, so the cells can balance.

So then it sounds like there is no accomodation for an absorption phase. What do you think about setting the equalization settings to act like an absorption phase?

Haven't hooked it up yet. I'm planning now and was going through settings and found no accomodation for an absorption phase.

It's possible I missed it, but I'm not seeing any setting in the 6000XP FLA settings for an absorption phase. How are people coping with that? I've had a thought about using the equalization settings to synthesize an absorption phase. This is for a DIY LiFoPo4 battery with no comms. I want to...

Love to hear some feedback on what you learned and how you ended up with this.

Like many here, I used 1" EPS foam board. I believe it goes by "Foamular" at Home Depot.

Not related to this system, but I'd love to see you do some more testing and demos on solar panels. What is the 'real' gain people can expect to get from bi-facial panels in various configurations, including on an RV roof? Where are the best places to buy solar panels now that prices are in free...

Just a quick follow-up to this post I wrote little over 2 years ago. I'm now on my third winter using the system exactly as described above. It's worked perfectly! I've had no reason to modify it or make any changes. All I do at the end of the heating season is flip the switch off and remove my...

Trying to achieve proper force with just a threaded connection is very complex, which means unless you have serious math ninja, you are really just guessing. Springs are so simple and they don't have to be expensive. I used these. I measured their K values to be ~165#/inch. less than $5 each...

My Trimetric has been in service for 15 trouble free years. Seems like a rookie compared to your 30 years though. ?

I built a compression fixture and fastened that to the floor of my RV under the bed.

Can you do grid passthrough for 120V in (just L1 connected, and not an L2) to charge the battery bank when connected to shore power, and have the other leg of 240V run off of the battery?

Morningstar has a 600V MPPT as well.

I agree! I'm a Morningstar fan and have used their MPPT charge controllers for years. I did communicate with them several months ago about being able to do split phase and they indicated they were looking to offer it in the future, but it was likely years out and therefore off my list for...