Recent content by SWSL

As others say, with all those resistance appliances you are really asking for a lot of electricity. I suggest that you adapt your lifestyle and you will save a ton of money. First, go with a propane stove. Coleman classic highly recommended. Buy an adapter hose and can use with small...

Same here. Except I have a smart charger that will do a better job. That is the bulk of my charging power. Solar is supplemental. Scenario is: Power goes off while away and runs through battery, hitting LVD of Inverter, which switches off. Power then comes back on and fridge was fine off for...

Ebay is worse ! Zero reviews is not better! I don't rely on Amazon per se, I rely on being able to sort through feedback. There are ways to sort and get past the fake reviews. If you depend on a seller's Ebay rating (vs the actual product listing on Amazon), then you want to be sure that...

Gotcha. Thanks!

Another question- any preference for electronic vs mechanical contactors? Seems like electronic makes a lot of heat but tends to last longer? And uses less power to close? This is for the SCC managed LVD relay that I'm going to put before the transfer switch. Plan is- I will set my load...

Great, thanks. I was depending on Amazon to sort out the junk products. Harder to tell on Ebay. Concern is buying "too good to be true" products cheating with undersized contacts and getting away with it on ebay. What brand has worked for you?

Thanks. $350 is a little out of range for me but probably worth it for reliability and interface with your gen. Cheers

Got a link or description I can chase down? I like $14 over $40 if it's worked for you. I should add that line power here is 115V. Seems there are more inexpensive 220V than 110V on the market.

Hi. Thanks for you input and overview of my system. I probably explained more than necessary and derailed the answer focus. I do understand that the usual system design goal is to have adequate input to indefinitely sustain a system. That's what I did for my van in the US. In this case...

Hi. I built/am improving a small system with 12V 230ah LFE / 2000 watt Voltworks PSW inverter/ Victron smart 15A charger/ Victron Smartsolar 75/15 SCC and only 100 watts panel (will add more eventually) Also I have a $40 shunt that is yet to be installed. I have a few goals with this in...

Build the batteries in the size that you can move as you might need to. Use a single BMS for each assembly and connect them. By reducing the amps in each unit you may be able to buy a lower spec BMS for each but will need 2 or 3... Looking for potential cases, I liked the Dewalt stacking...

AC power. I don't think it was a spike from charger losing power because the error did not start until I re-plugged it and it reset to a new charge cycle feeding 14 v to the battery instead of much lower storage/float v. It then kept up the alarm state until I unplugged the load on the other...

Did some research on this. As often happens, the more I learn, the less I know! Summary is that it's a mix of things, it can sometimes be managed well enough to be accurate and much more likely to work if you get some full cycles in. "It isn’t really coulomb counter. It is a calculation with...

Yes. I found it easy to read. #1 takeaway. Low resistance is desirable for yet another reason. Yes. Nice tip. I intend to do that myself. Do an AC voltage check with the battery charging and significant load on inverter. Then battery not charging and load. Good catch! I skimmed over...

Yes, that's why a shunt. It appears that the BMS uses voltage to determine charge state displayed. At least the JBD does but I understand that JK and Seplos are the same Someone suggested that it/they may incorporate measurement of power movement into the displayed charge state calculation...