Jack Hunt

Great thread @Paddy78. One thing nobody's touched on yet — cell balancing and BMS communication. A decent active balancer or at minimum a quality passive BMS that can talk to your charging sources...

JackHunt | 447 posts @JakeShaw96 One thing worth doing that nobody's mentioned yet — once the CTEK has finished its cycle, put a proper load on it and see how it behaves under real-world...

Been running a 280Ah LiFePO4 pack I built myself over the winter and decided to give one of those generic 4S 100A BMS boards a proper go rather than splashing out on a Daly or JBD straight away.

Worth clarifying something @EdHamilton and @Dizzy70 have touched on — there's an important distinction between charge protection and discharge protection here.

JackHunt | Posts: 487 Great thread. To add something slightly different — have you looked at the temperature compensation setting in VictronConnect?

JackHunt | 847 posts | ⚡ Narrowboat & Off-Grid @BitsAndBobs brilliant that you've documented it — narrowboat installs are their own breed of chaos entirely.

Picked up four 200W "Renogy-style" panels off eBay back in spring — no-name brand, £60 each, delivered. Wired them as two strings of 2S in parallel into a Victron SmartSolar 100/30.