Nige Scott

NigeScott98 | 847 posts | 🔧 DIY Enthusiast Worth mentioning the pre-charge resistor method if nobody's covered it yet — dead simple and cheap.

Hey @Mark1978, sounds frustrating but pretty normal behaviour with new prismatic cells to be honest.

@EllaDixon71 worth knowing the EcoFlow Smart Generator works best when paired with an EcoFlow battery ecosystem — if you're running Victron kit and a Fogstar it won't get that "auto-start on...

Reply by NigeScott98: @Ben1968 Good shout on upgrading from that ancient leisure battery - thing's probably got the capacity of a AA at this point!

NigeScott98 | 47 posts @WayneTaylor Ha, the "teenager on a Monday morning" description is spot on — I had exactly this with my 100/20 last winter! Worth checking your battery temperature...

Hey @BarryCrane, just to add to what @Chunk and @SamFrost are getting at — have you got a battery temperature sensor connected to the MPPT?

NigeScott98 | 156 posts | 🚐 Van Life @Gazza89 One thing nobody's mentioned yet — before spending anything, have you checked your cable sizing between the panel and controller?

Ha, joining the club of actually finishing a sentence here 😄 @GaryParker97 curious what you found — but while we wait for the rest of your post to materialise... One thing worth flagging that I...

@BatteryWez had something similar with my BMZ 24V setup last spring. Worth checking whether the BMS has actually locked out entirely — there's often a manual wake sequence you can trigger via the...

@NeilBurns91 Honestly that Fogstar setup sounds pretty reasonable for a shepherd's hut — they're cracking batteries for the money.

NigeScott98 | Posts: 847 @HarryJackson Yeah, had exactly this with my JK on a similar EVE setup. Turned out to be a power supply issue to the BMS communication board rather than a Bluetooth fault...

Great thread, @RayWatson81. I've been following Fogstar's development pretty closely, and I reckon they've genuinely stepped up their game compared to where they were a few years...