Glen Nicola

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Need Help: How to integrate a battery into balcony solar that isn't ECOFLOW STREAM
GlenNicola | 📍 Scottish Highlands | ⚡ 2.4kWh LiFePO4 | 🌞 800W panels @OldSailor ha, brilliant way to put it!
in Batteries & BMS 4 days ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS – which one do I trust?
Great thread, this comes up constantly. Building on what @RetiredPlumber was starting to say about them measuring fundamentally different things — I'd add that discrepancies often spike when your...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Setting MPPTs work priority with CerboGX - Configurable?
Just to add a practical note to what @ExSquaddie49 and @LochLover have mentioned — with different roof aspects you'll likely find your MPPTs are rarely all peaking simultaneously anyway, which...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else had their BMS cut out in cold weather? Sharing my findings
GlenNicola | 312 posts | ⚡ Off-Grid Narrowboat Good timing on this thread — we had exactly the same issue on our narrowboat last January moored up in Scotland.
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else running a cheap Chinese MPPT off a single 200W panel — worth upgrading the controller first or the panel?
GlenNicola | 847 posts | ⚡ Solar Enthusiast @Gazza89 The Epever Tracer is actually a decent bit of kit — not "cheap Chinese tat" in the same bracket as some of the no-name stuff...
in On a Budget 4 months ago thumb_up 8
Battery backup with SolArk or EG4 inverter and generator
Hey @MoorSeeker, interesting setup you're after! One thing worth flagging specifically with the SolArk and EG4 units — they're designed around 60Hz American grid standards, so you'll want to...
in Emergency & Backup Power 5 months ago