CopperWarden | 847 posts
Great summary @LazySocket. One thing worth adding — the BMV-712's accuracy lives and dies by two settings people often neglect: the Peukert exponent and the charge...
Great thread @OllieRoss74. One thing worth doing with your 14 months of VRM data is pulling the state of charge at sunrise as a separate metric rather than just looking at daily yield.
CopperWarden | Posts: 1,243
Good thread this. To add something nobody's touched on yet — starter batteries also tend to have thinner internal plates designed for that brief cranking surge, which...
CopperWarden | 1,243 posts
@JoeFox55 @GlenKelly makes a fair point about winter, but I'd frame it differently — it's not that your system won't work, it's about managing expectations for those...
@JimWilliams71 one thing worth adding to what @DorsetSolar is getting at — even once you've sorted the sensing config, make sure you've got proper temperature compensation set up as well.
CopperWarden | 847 posts
@SuffolkExplorer The Multiplus 12/3000 can pull around 250A peak from your bank — that's absolutely brutal on a 12V system and your cabling/connections will be working...
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