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Consider a variac for AC step up. It worked for me. Try putting it on either end of your long cable to step up the voltage and see what works best. If your DC only, try a better quality buck converter...

You don't connect the pi to the ecoflow. Assuming your ecoflow app is working, you connect the pi to the ecoflow server to get the stats. So much more info than the official app! You need the latest pi 4 or zero with a current raspian OS with python 3.11 If your interested, I'll post the code...

I've been living off-grid for a long time, and up until now, I've always made my own batteries and systems. 10Kw of used solar panels 32 EVE Lifepo4 280ah batteries in Seplos battery boxes, giving 30KW of battery capacity. Growatt 6KW all in one split phase charger/inverter for when I'm there...

If you're interested, you can get tons of info from the EcoFlow battery packs. Im using them to power my offgrid house, they are low cost, have 20w idle consumption, tons of output power, be connected to any big battery for expansion (Im using 32 280ah EVE cells at 52v = 28kwh) and can be...

I use the Phoenix inverter when I was not at the house. I turn everything off except internet and my security system and drops the load to under 50W. The Pheonix only uses around 10 watts idle consumption unlike my growatt that used 120, but the Phoenix 800 didnt have enough power for my septic...

Just Daisy chain the 2 together, using the AC charge cable. it's that simple. Make sure AC is always turned on. You get to use the full capacity of both batteries.

Connect any 48v battery to the solar port, you don't need ecoflow batteries, I used 32 eve lifepo4 cells to add 28khw. Use the solar cable. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BZCWT6HZ?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

I'm doing exactly what you describe. I have 28kwh of eve lifepo4 52v batteries connected to my ecoflow Delta 2 DC charge port with the solar cable. The solar cable allows the power to charge at 500w instead of the 100w car charger cable. Your pro should charge at the full speed your solar port...

get the venkor version (https://github.com/venkor/SolarShed.git) and checkout the remotes/origin/1-update-gettracerdatapy-from-python2-to-python3 branch. Run these in succession: Code: git clone https://github.com/venkor/SolarShed.git venkor cd venkor git checkout...

Did this ever get resolved? What was the solution?

Ok, Here is what I did. It's been working fine for over a month now. First get your hands on an MR1100 hotspot router. eBay has been good for me. I found used ones for under $100. If your using ATT (I haven't tried other providers, but any network that gives unlimited plans should work), you...

BTW, if anyone needs a low cost unlimited data plan thro ATT (or any provider), look at using the Netgear MR1100 hotspot router. I get them on eBay used for around $99 The key feature about this device is that you can reflash the firmware, then edit the IMEI number. Then you change the IMEI to...

This is great to see, all my hard work getting used and getting useful results. It's all I could have hoped for when I started this project many moons ago. Thanks to everyone for their feedback and suggestions. Joe.

Thanks for the idea of using averaging, this makes sense...

Hi, you could do 4 scripts, each using their own serial port. But you will need to modify the way the db/grafana works to separate the data. It's easiest or simply use 4 pi zeros, 1 per device. They used to be cheap! Hopefully the price goes down soon