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Thanks for your reply- my mistake, it is indeed a Sofar ME3000SP. Today I found the battery connection CAN cable that came with the inverter. It's actually RJ45 at both ends. The battery end has a standard looking molded on connector, but the inverter end has custom wiring (assuming it just has...

Hi- @Starman I'm trying to get this up and running with my Sofar S3000 and read that you've managed this. I've purchased one of @uksa007 's pre-built boards and connected it to my Wi-Fi, then connected the JK adapter board to the inverter's CAN socket using a standard ethernet cable. When I...

Thank you- I have just ordered one of your kits. It looks like a great project and I look forward to seeing it in action. It will also be a doorway into ESPHome, which I haven't looked at before. After just a brief look at available options I can think of many useful applications for it.

Was just thinking this as I was putting mine back together the other day. I actually pulled mine out of a scrap metal pile! The battery enclosures are so nicely made as are all the internal components- the BMS definitely seems to be the weak point. If I worked at the company I'd be pithed off...

Bit of a belated update, but since I started this thread I've managed to finally get a new BMS installed. To test whether my battery was worthy of spending out on a BMS for, I got a used Sofar ME3000SP from ebay and ran some charge/discharge cycles while monitoring the string voltages manually...

I've been offered three of these units. Can find no info about them, other than they appear to be made in Australia. The fact I can't see a model number on them doesn't help. There's no voltage on the cells other than a few .1 V +/- The owner said I should dump them if they're no good to me...

A kid at the place where I used to work made up an extension cable with the wrong polarity at one end and blew 3 new inverters before he came to ask me what was going on. I ended up with the inverters and figured it was worth at least trying to get them going again. I did some searching and...

Hello- I am looking for something shunt or hall effect based that's not too expensive and will work with an input of up to either 125 or 250 Watts @ 48 V. It's really only input Wh that I'm interested in, but the more info recorded the better. Thanks

Thanks- I think I should be able to get this for maybe £100 or less, so definitely seems worth a shot based on those prices. I think I'm initially going to try it on a small 48V load without a BMS while monitoring the string voltages manually. At least that will give me some idea as to its...

A rather belated update on this back-burner project... I bypassed the BMS and charged the battery very slowly (3 A across all cells until system voltage reached the specified 57.4). This took a long time as I have not been able to get to my workshop much and I did not want to leave it charging...

Also interested in this- do you have any details on the 100W car charger? I've not been able to find anything.

Thanks all- I've got the ability to play about and test them without making any commitment, so I might as well try. These were in the south of England- there aren't much in the way of temperature extremes here, so maybe the cells won't have been affected by the temps. But the low SoC for a...

Thanks- I meant to say that he's not sure how long they've been sat for. I'll see if he can find out- he does seem to know the original owner. Info so far has been vague, other than it was installed in an attic and upgraded a while ago. I'd like to give charging them a try. My issue is with how...

I've been offered this - seller is fair and flexible, price is somewhat dependent on how useful it'll be for me. I can't get any sign of life out of the BMS, but that's likely due to the string voltages. Took out one row and this is what they measured at: It's using these Boston Power...

Hello- I'm planning on doing something similar. Has this been working out OK for you? How did you end up housing everything and end up orienting your cells? I read (under Mechanical Installation here) that it's not a good idea to lie cells down unless they're designed for it, which messes up my...