Recent content by gjonesy84

Hi All, I've had a 18650 power wall running for 3 years. I've not had any issues which any of the packs but noticed recently on a night charge on the cheap off peak. One of my pack is cooling when charging. I wonder if this Pack is suffering from some kind of strange exothermic type...

Brill. Thanks for your reply. That seems the way to go. cheers Gareth

These are the 2 buck converts I have ordered.

Hi, Thank you for your replied. Much appreciated. Functional description of my shed system is I have an 400W solar array connected to a Victron MPPT Solar Charge Controller. Connected to the dc bus is a 3KWh 7S 24V lion battery pack. An adjustable 500W inverter and 30A charger. I only use this...

@SeaGal unforunately I cant. I bought aload of those 18650 pcb boards. I did have a look into how I could split each pcb trcks to make 2 x 7S but its impossible. @DIYrich I use node to control how much I charge and discharge to my house depending on house load, solar generation and cheap off...

Hi All, I have a 48V 18650 6kwh battery running for the last 3 years in my garage. Ive recently upgrded them to Lifep04 cells for safety reasons (dont want lion in the house anymore). I want to couple up the 48V 18650 6kwh battery with my shed solar install but my battery voltage is 24Vdc...

Hi Nigel, Funny timings. I yesterday fitted one. Along with some nice Victron Mega fuses. Confirm JKbms Shunt is pants. In with the victron smart shunt. Cheers

Hi All, Thanks for your replies. I think your right the JKBMS SOC is not accurate. I understand that the SOC cannot be accurately cross referenced with the cell or bank voltage due to the flat discharge/charge curve. This links were a good read :) Im running the venus OS drive for serial...

Hi All, Ive recently built a DIY 280Ah Lifep04 24V battery managed using a JK BMS. Last couple of days my bank reached the low cell voltage cutoff of 2.6v and reset the SOC to 0%. Then at 00:30 the cheap off peak leccy tarrif that im on. It kicked in so it started a night charge for 20 mins and...

Hi, You don't load it into influx. The getbms-ant.txt is the instructions of how to set this up from start to finish. What stage are you at now? Do you have a SD card flashed and rasbrian up running? Cheers

Hi Jon, Start by flashing a SD card with the latest version of raspbrian here. Im running it on a Pi4 with a 32GB sd card. https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/ Then enable SSH in the settings. I use Putty to connect to the Pi. Then use the getbms-ant.txt file to load in...

Hi, Thank you for your reply :) Your code didnt quite work but certainly pointed me in the right direction. This code below works. Thought I would share this if any one else has want to do the same. As everyone probaly knows that the balance current is not much and only enables when...

Hi How do you go about writing to the ant bms? I want to toggle the balancing. Any help would be much appreciated :) Cheers