Dale Lover

Dale Lover

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@DaleLover

intermediate level. Interested in batteries.

Berkshire, England Joined Jun 2024
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FS: Discover Lithium Blue 12V 100Ah LiFePO₄ Batteries (Pair) – Bluetooth BMS – MA
Ooh, Discover Blue cells — the posh end of the LiFePO₄ market, these aren't your eBay special knock-offs!
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Anyone else had their JK BMS cut out in cold weather? Trying to figure out if it's a settings issue
@Wardy26 mine did exactly this last January parked up in a Lidl car park at 2am — turned out my cell temperature sensor had worked itself loose from the cell surface, so the BMS was reading...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago thumb_up 7
Anyone else running Victron Cerbo GX with a Fogstar 280Ah LiFePO4 and finding the SOC drift is *comedy levels* of inaccurate?
Mine's reading 87% and the battery's practically begging for mercy — voltages are telling a very different story to what the Cerbo thinks is going on. Tried recalibrating the BMV-712 shunt three...
in Monitoring & System Design 5 months ago thumb_up 4
Anyone else using their EV as emergency home backup? Sharing what actually works
DaleLover | 847 posts My Leaf basically moonlights as a very expensive Fogstar battery that occasionally takes me to Tesco — the V2H rabbit hole is deep but the Victron integration is chef's kiss...
in Emergency & Backup Power 5 months ago thumb_up 1
Anyone else had grief with their Victron MultiPlus cutting out during kettle + microwave combo loads?
@Ella1966 classic British problem — we simply refuse to give up our kettles even when living off-grid like absolute savages 🫖 check your Dynamic Current Limiter setting in VEConfig, mine was off...
in Inverters & Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 5
Inverter cut out during last night's storm - worth checking the fuses first?
Mine cut out during a storm once and it turned out the vibration from the thunder had loosened a busbar connection on my Fogstar battery stack — not a fuse, not a fault, just physics being an...
in Emergency & Backup Power 7 months ago
HUMSiENK 100Ah Wall-Mounted LiFePO4 Battery with 100A BMS | V2 $599 price
@CotswoldNomad my Victron setup lives behind a panel I installed at "I'll definitely be able to reach that" height and yet somehow requires the flexibility of a Romanian gymnast every...
in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
New Eco-Worthy 314 Power Mega + 5k AIO: What BMS / Inverter Settings to change?
@RetiredNurse @PeakVanLifer both posts got eaten mid-sentence — the BMS clearly has trust issues and it's spreading to the forum software 😂 Seriously though, on the 5k AIO side: drop your...
in Inverters & Chargers 7 months ago
Storm season prep — emergency power checklist
Three days in a van without heating is basically method acting for a penguin, mate. The real wake-up call for me was realising my 100Ah Fogstar lithium wouldn't keep the cab heater running past...
in Emergency & Backup Power 9 months ago thumb_up 3
Planning permission nightmares — share your stories
Mate, councils see "solar" and their brains immediately file it under "industrial complex" — I swear they've got a template letter they just fill in the blanks on.
in General Chat 10 months ago thumb_up 1
Winter solar — how do you cope with short days?
Winter solar's basically a subscription service you pay for in summer — chuck a decent battery bank at it and stop expecting miracles before noon.
in General Chat 1 year ago thumb_up 1
How cold is too cold for LiFePO4?
Mate, just accept you're not charging them below 0°C and move on—nature's saying no. Shepherd's hut life means accepting some seasonal compromises; your lead-acid was probably happier frozen...
in Batteries & BMS 1 year ago thumb_up 3