Aolithium 48v batteries. Should or shouldn’t I?

[dstar]

I received my 2 batteries today. I ordered them separately as I wanted the longer wires, and not the jumper wires. I read somewhere(maybe earlier in this thread), if you order 2+, you get jumper wires that are intended just to connect the batteries together, and have to source your own longer wires.
Each battery came with a set of 4 AWG(25mm) wires. The one end has an anderson? connector I think, and the other end has a lug that will fit an m8 bolt through it.

They came at 30% SOC according to their BMSs. 52.6V.
Cells all are 3.290-3.292V
The manual states <=3% self discharge per month.

I've ordered multiple batteries from them a couple of times and I always received both long and jumper cables. As an example 4 batteries would come with 4 sets of pos and neg long wires, 4 sets of small parallel cables both pos and neg etc... The same as if they were individual.

Not that it matters anymore since they're selling cables separately now.

 

[noobie]

I've ordered multiple batteries from them a couple of times and I always received both long and jumper cables. As an example 4 batteries would come with 4 sets of pos and neg long wires, 4 sets of small parallel cables both pos and neg etc... The same as if they were individual.

Not that it matters anymore since they're selling cables separately now.

Yeah I see that on the USA site. The Canadian site only sells batteries. That's good if the cables are available separately.

I received the "AK01" set of cables. 1 set for each battery. No jumper cables(AK02).
It works for my usage.

 

[noobie]

OK, so I have my 2 batteries set up and paralleled with an SOK server rack battery.
After a bit of balancing, they are settled in, although in different SOC than the SOK(expected).

I have to charge everything up to full and balance them all to 100% still(darn overcast weather).

One thing I've noticed so far:
I have a constant load of about 42w from the inverter and internet devices(modem, router, switch).
The external Victron shunt shows ~0.8A constant current discharge, the SOK shows about 0.64A, the 2 AOLithium batteries show 0A draw.

I would need to confirm with a meter that there's actually a draw on each one, but it's possible the shunt can't measure small currents.

It appears there should be a small amount of current being drawn from the 2 new batteries, based on what the SOK shows vs the shunt.

That's just my initial observation but I'm curious if anyone else has theirs set up yet.

 

[JohnPan]

Have you guys seen Will's Ruxio review? Seem like a nice alternative.

they do not support UL9540A which is required for certification