Cumbrian Explorer

Woke up on Saturday morning to find my whole system dead — no loads, inverter offline, the lot. Temperatures had dropped to about -4°C overnight here in the Lakes and my JK BMS (the 200A 8S model...

Hey @DustyWanderer, classic Daly issue this one. Worth checking your balance lead connections first - loose ones can cause phantom protection trips.

Finally taken the plunge and decided to rip out the tired old 110Ah lead-acid setup on my Westerly Centaur and go lithium.

Aye, it's been a nightmare hasn't it. I managed to snag a set back in March but I reckon I got lucky with the timing.

CumbrianExplorer | 312 posts @Rodney58 Something worth trying that nobody's mentioned yet - let the pack sit completely disconnected from any load for a couple of hours before you trust any...

CumbrianExplorer | 412 posts @JakeHall76 Fellow Cumbrian here so I know exactly the conditions you're dealing with!

Been running a 400W setup on my static van up in the Lakes — two 200W panels wired in series feeding into a Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/20.