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And all designed by these same guys that are now Midnite! (Or at least with their fingerprints all over them... ;) )

You've been listening to the wrong people. https://apnews.com/article/biden-united-states-government-us-consumer-product-safety-commission-ap-fact-check-texas-2003dcf8d0bee8ddf45080186b2e0c7b

Wow - Another thread generating 25 pages of comments in about a day. This board is pretty phenomenal. I didn't read everything, but it seems like another "EVs suck" vs "EVs rock" thread. I've had a Tesla Model Y for a bit over a year. I went into it knowing that I didn't know everything, but I...

Our well pump went in when we built our cabin. I was in High School, and I think it was the summer of 1974. So in a few months it will have been operating in that well for 50 years. The pump was from F.E. Meyers in Ohio, who I think still is in the business but were bought out by a bigger...

First I'll say I don't know anything about the 6000xp, and you didn't say how big your battery is. You also didn't say the size (horsepower) of whatever pump you are going to use. That is critical to know the power pulled by the pump. As @Steve_S suggested, getting a soft start Grundfos is...

First, don't sue me if I'm wrong, but... The voltage across the switch is only the voltage difference between the battery positive and the positive side of the capacitor bank. Even if the capacitor is very large (say 100,000 microfarads), they will charge up very quickly. There's some math to...

Touching the grid with a 20' pole should be avoided, at least if the pole is conductive. 😁

Schneider should probably be in your list of Tier One. I have Schneider, but would probably put it lower than Victron, Midnight, and SMA. I don't know anything about Samlex or Fronius.

I'm curious why you bought from that particular web site. I really know nothing about them, so I don't want to say anything bad about them. However, to my knowledge they are not the "root" source of the JK BMS, which I am fairly certain is Hankzor BMS store on Aliexpress. If my understanding...

That power supply says 3.78V. I hope that is wrong.

I have the much smaller (and older) SW4024 Schneider inverter/charger, also in an off-grid setup with a generator. The set of bypass breakers in my system are meant to be able to connect the generator to the loads and bypass the inverter as @400bird says. However, one of the most important...

Was it Robin Gudgel or Bob Godgel? i certainly hope they are still in the game. Legends in this business, and from everything I've seen they are some of the straightest shooters that ever played the game!

I really think that when someone DIY wants to put together a system using modular components (e.g., Victron), they should know what they are buying and how it all goes together before they buy it. It shouldn't be the responsibility of the seller (Current Connected for example) to provide that...

The Lynx Distributor is an absolutely awesome pair of 1000A bus bars. With the built-in fuse holders, it's hard to match with non-Victron choices. As @Kiwi2000 pointed out, you can hack a Lynx Power In (which is cheaper than the distributor) to be essentially like the Lynx Distributor. The...

I'm curious, where (approximately) in SW Colorado are you? My cabin is also in SW CO.

Another Daly BMS horror story... Although others may be right that your cells are out of balance, the sequence of screen shots from your BMS would seem to indicate something has gone insane inside the BMS. To have one cell jump to 5V and another drop to near 0V a few minutes after they were...

Why are you excluding Amazon? That's the easiest place to get stuff like the resistor.

Sounds like you have lost hydraulic pressure. Was there a fluid leak? I've got the same model and I think I recall it came with some spare seals. I can't get to it right now, but I don't recall any obvious way it comes apart.

For my two 230Ah 24V LiFePO4 batteries I used two 12V 12W heating pads (in series for 24V), and with outside temps between 20°F and 0°F (IIRC) I am able to keep the battery (inside its insulated box) between 50°F and 60°F with only around 3-4Ah per 24 hour period. That means that if I get no...

The short answer is yes, you will need a different charge setting for your SCC and your inverter/charger (if it is connected to a generator or grid). The charge profile for LiFePO4 is different. First thing: You are probably looking at 12V drop-in replacements for your existing lead-acid...

24V 8S LiFePO4 batteries will work with that inverter, just in terms of the input voltage range. The TriStar TS-M-2 is a battery meter, not a solar charge controller. Do you have another device in the system that might be the SCC, or did you get the model number wrong? Edit: I guess the TS-M-2...

I haven't posted about it recently, but my cabin system is Schneider-based: CSW4024 Inverter/Charger, MPPT-60/150, SCP Controller. It is rock solid and could very well last for decades after we installed it in 2017. However, I have had some minor issues that I could never resolve. Schneider was...

Yeah, I should have said that it is very difficult to measure Wh accurately.

If Wh is actually measured, it's fine. If the device is measuring Ah and Wh, both are fine (but neither is more accurate than the other). However, getting to Wh by simply taking measured Ah and multiplying by 3.2V is very inaccurate. The only way it would be accurate is if the voltage of the...

I'm with @upnorthandpersonal on this. When a cell is tested it is measuring the current every second, and summing this up over time to give an Ah measurement. If the tester is also measuring Wh, it is calculating that ever second as well. That all is accurate. But to get to Wh by taking this...

I helped someone this summer with two Trophy batteries (rack mount, 48V). He put them in an insulated box, although I wish he could have insulated it more. For his system, I got 4 of the 12V pads, put them in series, and put one pad on each side of each battery. In your case, I would put two...

For my 8S DIY batteries, I used two of the 12V 12W pads wired in series, and the 24V thermostat. It's been working well, and with a well-insulated box it really doesn't take lots of energy from the battery to keep it warm. Two pads in series on a 26V battery will only draw about 1.1A, and for me...

Your option 3 is exactly what I have done on both of my 24V DIY batteries, using those same heating pads and the 24V thermostat you mention in the first paragraph. I posted the builds of both batteries along with lots of data plots about the heating. Let me know of you want the links to those...

Yeah, that's perfect for what I'm saying! These are the manufacturer (Eve, probably) blocking out the data matrix, indicating that these cells are going to the gray market because they can't go to the EV companies. ALL of the cells we mortals can buy from any of the brokers in China (or the...

Those of us that live in Colorado highly recommend all you folks go to New Mexico to ski. ?

It is a completely made up label from people on this board who think they are experts. There is no such thing. HOWEVER: Everything you buy as individual cells is almost certainly cells that the original manufacturer couldn't sell to their intended customer, which is EV companies. So everything...

Having a Cerbo GX is certainly no reason not to have a shunt. In fact, if you have the Victron Smart Shunt, it can provide a better battery voltage reading and battery SoC to the Cerbo, which is pretty important. With the Smart Shunt reporting the battery voltage, the Cerbo can use DVCC...

I actually have both of those meters (and A Fluke 175 which I trust more but with no clamp for current). I think they are not far apart, but I trust the Klein a bit more. I'm pretty sure neither has a true inrush feature, but they both have a "max". The max measurement can vary quite a bit...

Before building my two insulated / heated battery box builds I tested out several of the silicone and polymide heating pad / strips. The polymide got way too hot, way too fast. For my two batteries (8S 24V) I ended up using (in each) 2 x 12V 12W silicone pads, taped to the bottom of an aluminum...

Yes, the new battery is up in running in parallel to the 2021 version. It was working well for the last month or so of the summer / fall season. I'm hopeful it will do fine through the winter, as the other one did last winter. The cabin is all winterized and closed up, so it will be May-2024...