marionw
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ECO-WORTHY 51.2V 280AH 14.34 KWh Beasty Battery
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Brucey
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I would pull from the bottom left and top right Bob otherwise you are going to be fairly imbalanced in terms of load on the four rack mounts.I made a ramp from scrap wood and 3/4" plywood to get it over the door threshold.
Little flat toping on the E-W battery rack wheels. I have the replacements but...
Just waiting for the right moment to flip the switch
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BarracudaBob
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Also Global... I'll do it if you like.. When I get a couple of round tuits.
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The rack negative is bottom left, positive is upper right. Fuse on top Positive.
The Beast is going via 2awg to a Anderson to the commercial bullet breakers panel. Inside the battery it is the bottom Black and the upper RED that goes to the cells/BMS but it was too sharp of a bend so I put both on the bottom. Fuse on the positive.
So everything has a fuse and a breaker. These are not peoples most favorite fuses but I have them and going to use them. Wire off the battery must have a fuse or breaker. The breaker panel is where everybody is combined to the inverters. I have two more so I will probably sell them. Big bucks.
Now there are two batteries on top of the rack that are in parallel with the top battery in the rack. The Vatrer and a E-W V2. The VTR was intended to go to the Ham Shack but didn't make it there yet.
Work in progress...
I am waiting until everything hits 100% tomorrow. We had some dark, cloudy and rainy days so one more good day of sun should take us up there. I am resisting the urge to turn on the grid chargers... I just have to wait yet another day.. tick tick tick...
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BarracudaBob
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I just put the terminal protectors on but didn't take another picture.. I moved the label from the top to the bottom and it is crooked...
It never ends
It never ends
marionw
Solar Wizard
All the while the kids are swimming in the pool and know what a lobster feels like at a "Maine Lobster Festival". Just throw in the dirty laundry and dirty dishes, kids can do some choresI just put the terminal protectors on but didn't take another picture.. I moved the label from the top to the bottom and it is crooked...
It never ends
BarracudaBob
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just me and the wife now... I still have one immersion heater I can turn on remotely as my dump load. Thinking of a way to take it right off the DC from the panels through a contactor.
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Looking at the pictures this morning and realizing that The beast and the rack are about the same height. I added my own wheels that I had laying around here so what are the odds they would line up.
The luck of the Irish it was St Patty's Day
The luck of the Irish it was St Patty's Day
Brucey
Velcro Man
I was used to running my bucket heater off my Rosie inverter, as the system is torn apart for a rebuild I had to plug it into a house circuit yesterday. Two different breakers in the kitchen both tripped immediately upon plugging in. Had to run extension cord to laundry where there's two regular non gfci circuits, immersion heater then worked no problem.
BarracudaBob
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The microwave in the dishwasher on separate circuits I might have to tap off one of those and just say don't wash dishes while the microwaves on....
wpns
Solar Joules are catch and release
Hope that's not for your pool!
Brucey
Velcro Man
No there's some type of surge when this is first plugged in that gfci breakers don't like apparently.
And yes I've stirred the water with it plugged in without incident. Definitely an interesting load pulls a full 1800W.
BarracudaBob
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Two of my eight pop the GFI so apparently it's something defective in those two units so I didn't Amazon replacement.
wpns
Solar Joules are catch and release
I'd want a reading from a high-impedance DVM, but maybe that's me.
BarracudaBob
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It should be nice and full by the time I get home to turn on the Beasty Battery
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It's alive, it's alive!
It's an officially online
It's an officially online
BarracudaBob
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Everybody is in harmony, I posted all the Packs on this thread. I'll share the link here. Battery Boot Camp works!
Top Balance and Bottom Balance for the Win!
BarracudaBob
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I ran the beast with the other 12 100aH Rack Batteries all in parallel and had mini-split, hot tub, and pool immersion heater going all night. Not a heavy load but I was mainly interested in how much each battery the capacity would go down.
Ironically they all seemed to have about the same SOC. There are cable lengths differences, different places where they land on the breaker panel and all those deviations between brands but overall they track each other nicely. I wasn't sure if the 280Ah would have a higher SOC but in the big picture they are all working together.
I love it when a good plan comes together, and everybody played nicely together.
Beast280 69.6%
EW Rack: 66.9$
EG LP4V1 72%
So mixing them up in parallel is a no-brainer
EW Beast 280ah
E-W Server Rack of 5
And the EG4 LifePower4 V1
Ironically they all seemed to have about the same SOC. There are cable lengths differences, different places where they land on the breaker panel and all those deviations between brands but overall they track each other nicely. I wasn't sure if the 280Ah would have a higher SOC but in the big picture they are all working together.
I love it when a good plan comes together, and everybody played nicely together.
Beast280 69.6%
EW Rack: 66.9$
EG LP4V1 72%
So mixing them up in parallel is a no-brainer
EW Beast 280ah
E-W Server Rack of 5
And the EG4 LifePower4 V1
AdvicetotheGraduate
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Is the BMS already set up for an active balancer and you just need to plug it in? All the competitors in this segment are selling with active 2A and 5A balancers, so this seems like a big miss, especially since this is several hundred more than the competition.
wildbird12
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Which competitor (not on Temu or Alibaba) are you referring to?
BarracudaBob
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Please provide a link and instructions. I didn't know Pace had a plug in balancer.
The one I installed was $49 and has Bluetooth fully programable. Best part I had it in my parts drawer.
I know there is the Heltec ones but I didn't have any control over it. minus shipping, tax and tariffs they are $23 ish.
The 4th generation Neey or EnerKey has been very good to me. Now the 15A big boy is just for new batteries. That is an entirely different story.
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AdvicetotheGraduate
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Keeping in mind that everything in cluding Eco-Worthy are from China, the three that come to mind that are shipped FROM the USA and not China (i.e. they've already landed in USA from China) are:
The middle option (AmpBox) can be mounted vertically so I am cross shopping it. It is under $2k shipped to my house in the midwest:
BarracudaBob
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The AmpBox is a DIY so that is different. Where is the link to the Apexium, that is interesting. Like for like it is pre-build and to your door.
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Oh! I didn't say that the Pace BMS had a plug --- I was asking if it did. Because that would make it a relatively easy / inexpensive upgrade.
I am in the shopping and research phase and asking a lot of questions.
Nothing should be construed as if I know what the *&$@ I am talking about
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