After searching the forum, robbing ideas, asking questions, and learning a couple things the hard way, this is what I came up with for my first DIY solar boat batteries. Is this the best way? Highly doubtful. This is just how I did it and I feel like it will work great for me. Maybe this will...
Thanks for the add! This looks like my kind of place!
I've been playing with low budget solar powered floats for the last couple of years. Started off with a little paddle boat so I could get out on the water while my hot rod boat was down, but I instantly got hooked, started upgrading and...
Building my first battery bank and wanted to get some ideas on what materials would be good to use between/around aluminum case(or other) cells. I'm going to be using these in my boat, but would love to see what the DIY crowd has come up with and why for different environments. I've seen thin...
So, while on the water, I accidentally shorted one of the balance cables to a negative terminal and then had zero voltage coming out of the BMS. Just a tiny little pop and I was dead in the water. Thought I had killed it that quick. Well, I searched the forum and found how to reset it by...
Alright, I've gone over everything multiple times and don't see anything I've messed up. Checked all connections, tested and swapped everything I can think of, checked settings and reset it. No fault codes and everything is "normal" but it's not charging more than 1A in full sun with a low...
I'm ready to hook up my balance leads and remember reading that keeping them equal length was best to keep resistance the same. I get that. Going to be ugly doing it that way though. What do you guys think?