HeatherOllie | 📍 Yorkshire Dales | ⚡ 9.6kWh LiFePO4 | 🌱 Member since 2019
@BodgeItAndScarper looks like your post got eaten — complete it when you can but I'll have a crack at the basics while we...
@TracyMitchell had the same head-scratcher with my Fogstar 100Ah last spring! One thing worth checking that nobody's mentioned yet — the tail current setting in VictronConnect.
HeatherOllie | 312 posts
Something nobody mentions enough — thermal mass. I've got a few hundred kilos of reclaimed stone flooring in my Cairngorms cabin and it acts like a battery for heat.
Jumping in here as I had almost identical bother with mine last October. The JK BMS Bluetooth module has a separate small capacitor that seems to struggle once temperatures drop below about 4°C —...
HeatherOllie | 512 posts |
Great timing on this question — I went through exactly the same deliberation before fitting a MultiPlus 12/3000 in our converted horsebox last spring.
One thing nobody's...
HeatherOllie | 847 posts
Yes, had almost identical with my Drift pack last February! The BMS was throwing low-temp protection errors around 4–5°C which is actually it working correctly — LiFePO4...
Really useful thread this. Just to add something I haven't seen mentioned yet — when you're running the EU22i to top up your LiFePO4, it's worth thinking about when you run it rather than just...
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@LuckyHiker yes, looks like your post got chopped off — we're all hanging here waiting to know what you're "giving ~4" of!
HeatherOllie | 📍 Peak District | ⚡ Off-Grid since 2019
@OldSparky I'd say go for it — I fitted a JK BMS to my bank last spring and the Bluetooth monitoring has been genuinely useful rather than...
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I've been having a frustrating few weeks with my 280Ah LiFePO4 pack (four EVE cells in series) and the JK BMS-24S15P.
HeatherOllie | 847 posts | ⚡ Solar Enthusiast
@T5Life Looks like your post got cut off there, but I think I know where you're heading!
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Hey @ExBrickie31, welcome aboard! Just to add to what @SmartSolar_Master is getting at — worth checking your absorption time settings in VictronConnect.
HeatherOllie | 847 posts
@NeilJackson interesting one — worth double-checking your busbars and cell terminal connections first before assuming it's the cells themselves.
@PaulMurray I've done this twice now and the key thing nobody mentions is capacity testing before you commit.
I've been running a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 with two 200W panels on the roof of my static and I've noticed my 200Ah lithium bank is sitting noticeably lower every morning than it should be after...
