Trukinbear

Of course, I'll probably have to start over with this every time I add another 200 amp hours of battery, which should be two more times...

Victory! The (2)BMS, the SI6048, and the Whizbang Jr are showing SOC within 3% of one another

We're pretty efficient, I designed this place knowing id likely remain off the grid, plus our climate is very mild. That 2200# forklift...

Cloudy and rainy today. Very overcast. Normally I'd be making only about 50% of the power I need, but I'm actually making about 20% more...

Putting the batteries in over a couple of months to spread the costs out - I thought I needed 600ah minimum, but what I'm seeing with...

Looking back at my records that brand new picked up at the manufacturer forklift battery appears to have eaten over half my power from...

Wow! I wish I'd have gone LiFePo4 years ago - I thought I couldn't afford it. I was wrong because now I see that 50,ish % of my power...

D*mn! I thought I had a line on 2x Sunny Islands and 2x Midnight Classics for cheap.

Hey, it's getting close - says 76% at 100% SOC

I wouldn't exactly call Aolithium cheap, or rather they aren't inexpensive. I opened one up to see if it was serviceable and it was full...

Yeah, I might have a problem with Mom's respirator, my BiPap, and my son's CPAP - we are totally off the grid. It IS catching up, now SI...

Aolithium claims to speak those languages, and 4 others...

I would hope to have enough left over from selling my (2) SI6048, and (2) Classic 250 to buy another 200 Ah of batteries. However, I'd...

Anybody have experience with Midnite's MN5048DIY series inverters, and LiFePo4? Everything else except my inverter is Midnite Solar...

(Krazy off the wall idea #43) What if I reverse the polarity of the sense leads from the shunt so the SI sees discharge as charge - let...

Oh, well I thought I had it going, but the SOC on the SI set to 0% and the batteries were totally charged so only a slight trickle went...

Awe crud, I hate recalibrating the shunt

Well a JK BMS of the same type I have would work, you have to check if it will work as a replacement BMS in your battery, a lot cheaper...

I dunno - I've got $7200 + tax in Aolithium batteries inbound, and bought my SI6048 (and a spare) for less than $1500 during the DC...

Okay, I've tried every combination of settings that I can try to get it to recognize my BMS and it still just says external lithium ion...