i’d like to pick up this discussion again. as i do have 5 battery strings in parallel, which are monitored and controlled separately, i am looking for a safe but payable solution on dc breakers.
in my setup i am switching and monitoring the negative pole of the battery. as discussed above, we...
Go for an rc charger, eg imax knock off
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I personally do prefer icharger, a bit more pricey but top quality.
Just put them in parallel and buy a 2 or 3 amp adjustable power supply for a few bugs, set it to 3,65 and let it go until amps are 0. alternatively go for a used one from craigs list or similar.
Or get a used rc charger...
I have 5 strings 14s80p, each controlled by one single 40a bms... my inverters do 150amp total in discharge mode and 105 amp in charge mode. All strings on is no issue in discharge mode, but when 2 bms switch off, it is too much for residual 3 bms... in my setup so far were no relays.
It is...
I went the route with 5 china bms and now Im switching to 5 strings each with diybms and 5 large relays. Be aware that in case 4 of my 5 bms switched off, all load is running over one bms. This happened several times in my setup and burned all my bmses...
My point is, that I would like to monitor 5 strings separately in order to find out when one pack becomes weak. having 14s400p will not be so easy to manage in that perspective...
I think going forward with diy bms on the basis of an esp32 will be the right approach. batrium or other bms...
Hi guys,
my setup is now up and running.
My 3 Victrons are outputting 105 Amp when charging, which killed 3 out of 5 40Amp China-BMS because they can handle 40Amp when discharging but only 20Amp when charging. 5 multiplied by 20 is 100Amp in total... too much!
I will now switch over to 5 x...
Short update,
Pv plus cabeling for victrons is coming tomorrow :-)
More than 2 years building was really a long time but it was worth it. My batteryconsists of 5x 14s80p with about 30kWh of storage. 5 chinese bms.
3 victron multiplus II plus cerbo will give 7,5kW nominal. And a transfer switch...
Maybe i chose a fronius for pv and one mpII gx. On top of that 2 or 3 eltek controlled via my homeautomation system when sufficent solar power is available. 2x2kw from eltek and 2,5kw from victron should give a nice charge.
And when the sun is shining my tesla (shortly to be ordered) can be...
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