Solar Owen

Great thread! I'll add something nobody's touched on yet — the Advanced tab in VRM is brilliant for spotting patterns you'd never notice in real time.

Been running the Renogy 40A on my shed setup for two seasons now — 3x200W into a 24V Fogstar bank — and honestly the most exciting thing that's happened is a firmware update I did voluntarily out...

So I picked up a Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/30 earlier this year thinking I'd upgrade the battery bank to match eventually, and that "eventually" has somehow turned into six months of...

SolarOwen | 847 posts @TelHall Short answer: technically yes, but your bottleneck is going to be charge rate rather than any harm to the cells.

Good points all round from everyone. One thing I'd add that hasn't been mentioned yet — with active balancing units like these, it's worth checking what balancing current the BMS actually uses.

Hey @Thommo9, good timing on this thread! I went through exactly this with my SPH3000 last spring. The key thing that tripped me up was the DIP switch settings on the BMS side — Growatt's SPH...

Cheers for bringing this up, @RayWatson81. I've been following the Drift's evolution myself, and it's clear they've put proper thought into the engineering rather than just slapping a fancy case...