Recent content by Braebyrn

The new fireware (15.17 firmware) was successfully downloaded to the JKBMS in each battery box. Doing the update was not easy for me to figure out. It wouldn't connect to the BMS. Long story short, I had to uninstall the driver for the USB to RS485 adapter. After that the updates completed...

DIY EEL battery box with JKBMS in each.

I follow Andy and his positive comments on the latest JK BMS and he is the reason why I purchased them. I already updated the firmware he said would fix the issues when I received the units. Last night I noticed there is another firmware update. I will be attempting to update it to that. It...

4 batteries

RS485 CAN port to CAN port.

I have the master set to zero. Originally in order to communicate with it, I had to set it to one and then change it back to zero after I did the fireware update. Sounds like I should start with one and go up from there.

I asked John Cromer the question at Sol-Ark training last week and he said if the battery page shows values then it is communicating. This is my first experience with SA and JK. I'm always learning something new. Tonight I disconnected the no.1 battery module and plugged the comms into the 2nd...

JK-PB2A16S-20P. JK-PB2A16S-20P

The 15K and JKBMS are in closed loop but the battery float voltage setting is not showing correctly on the Sol-Ark. The BMS requested float voltage is set to 53.6v but shows 55.2v on the Sol-Ark. Any ideas?

Wow. I never thought of it that way. It will probably end up that way here. Hydroelectric is abundant here, and wind energy. But that bill you get each month would cut bigtime into most families budgets!

I went into settings and selected time of use, energy use equals battery priority. I started the battery use at 3:00 p.m.

DIYrich, My utility charges the following right now: No peak or off peak rates. (Pilot program started recently though). Electricity Tier 1 (First 600 kWh Used) $0.113278 600 kWh Tier 2 (Above 600 kWh Used) $0.132695 621 kWh I used 1221kWh for the month of January.

Vigo, I am not in the spirit to do any more modifications to the wiring at the moment. Maybe in the future. I like your idea of using the battery overnight. That is a start for me.

Supervstech, We have eleven 335w Sunpower panels facing East and 27 facing West. Total 38 x 335 = 12,730

Teal95, we set it up like Sol-Ark 15k instructions show and have it going from the grid to a fused disconnect then to the 15k and then to the main panel as intended. Current sensors are installed and working. It is set at "Limited to Home" now. It would have been better had we installed a...