You need to kill your existing batteries and then explain to her it's only a little bit more dear than replacing the original batteries. You keep quiet about the other bits you need until you have fitted the Lithium, then you man up and tell you have made a cock up and need a new B2B/Solar Reg & Charger or the new batties we have spent a fortune on will be wrecked.
You may as well order TWOThe grey water drain will be getting an electric valve and camera, I've got used to not moving from the driver's seat when dumping.
You can fit your own, then we can all have a luaugh.You may as well order TWO
Lenny check size it’s huge. Reviews quite good but size for me at home is no too
Yes I have a bit too big I think a small Air fryer is the way to go.
You know that won’t happen, that’s why I’ll let you practice on mine, you will be competent by the second fitYou can fit your own, then we can all have a luaugh.
I have 280ah if you can fit 460ah I would go with that only ever had the 280ah down to 40% like but you can claim to be one of the "lithium big boys" with 460ah I not jeal or anything like
what can you use them? how long is your piece of string?
Not in the MH, but I have both an Air Fryer and a Halogen Oven
I have had a Halogen oven for many years. I cook anything that would normally go in the oven. Chips, pies, burgers, Chicken kievs, fish steaks... I also have the extender for above the glass cooking bowl, which is primarily for chips, so with say burgers on the rack and the chips in the extender I can cook them all to perfection at the same time. Because it is basically a fan oven I usually set the temperature between the normal and fan oven setting. The conventional oven very rarely gets switched on.
I know they are good it's juat the size in a small van.
Just use the ASCII code 0176.
Hold the Alt key down and type 0176 on the numec keypad. Just like you when you want fractions. e. g. ½ is Alt 171.
I have to hold the ALT key down and press 0163 to get the £ sign on my laptop.
OK, so I have just gone to my office software and opened a document, typed in 65 Alt0176, nothing, just nothing has appeared. All I want is the little '0' that denotes degrees.
That won't be much good then.
peterc10 has just gone for a long lie down.what can you use them? how long is your piece of string?
Ok, some ideas ....
Use in conjuction with Solar Harvesting as an excess energy dump - when the battery SOC hits say 95%, have the relay activate to turn on the Electric Water Heating, or switch the fridge to Electric Power (if AES).
Example: I supplied a BMV-712 + SSR (Solid State Relay) setup that would provide power to the Fridge once the SOC went upto 90% and stayed on until the SOC dropped to 70%. This chap found when he went to Portugal, he went from having to get gas every few days to not needing gas refill for 2 weeks.
Obviously you can do this kind of switching manually, but the benefit of programmable relays and automation is they work when you are not there, or when you are there but want to chill and not monitor-watch
On my previous van, I used a BMV-712 with a combo of a 200A Power Relay and a 30A B2B charger, switching which one was active depending on Leisure Battery SOC. This allowed high-current bulk charging via the Relay, changing to Smart Charging at around 75% SOC to give a proper charge profile to finish the job (This happened to be an example of where the NC and NO of the '712 were useful, as one device wanted 0V control and one device wanted 12V control)
The above combo is what the CTEK B2B + SmartPass does,but that is a £450 pound solution. Mine was a standard B2B plus a £6 relay
When choosing between the various Victron SOC monitors, I will ALWAYS recommend the BMV over the Smartshunt because of the Relay feature. There are loads of different uses for programmable relays.
Here's another example I did to my Motorhome just a couple of days ago .... Installed a couple of new AC sockets and used on of the Victron relays to turn on the circuit when the temp drops below 2C, and then back off again when up to 4C. Got a mini oil-rad plugged into the socket and the rad comes on automatically for frost protection. This was yesterday - the relay kicked on just before 7AM
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I have been trying to find a dark room first. Can my BMV help me with that.peterc10 has just gone for a long lie down.
I have a Carthago with a CBE charger and have no problem with charging my LiFePO4 battery. I use the lead acid setting because it is only a 14.1V charge and has a shorter equalisation period of 90 minutes before dropping back to 13.5V, rather than the 8 hours of the gel setting. The charger does’t switch off it just switches to a lower maintenance voltage. This lead acid setting slightly undercharges the battery which is better for it and when on hook up I don’t need a permanently full battery. This shortens battery life. I only need a full battery when I am not on a hook up and the B2B takes care of that.
It’s only a backstop if it’s set too high (as I suspect yours is).
That sounds way too high! That sounds as though it’s the summation of the four cell over-voltage settings. Does your BMS have separate protection for cell over-voltage and for battery over-voltage or do you only have a single over-voltage protection parameter?
Indeed.
It is the BMS within my Relion battery, I have no control of the settings. I was surprised by the 15.6V but the charging instructions are clear and like any other battery the user needs to provide charging within the the specified parameters. The principal function of the BMS is cell balancing but it does have voltage, temperature and current protection too.It’s only a backstop if it’s set too high (as I suspect yours is).
That sounds way too high! That sounds as though it’s the summation of the four cell over-voltage settings. Does your BMS have separate protection for cell over-voltage and for battery over-voltage or do you only have a single over-voltage protection parameter?
Indeed.
At 15.6V it’s certainly in the realms of an emergency.
Ian
There is an app called character map (Microsoft) has all the various signs and features you'll ever need, no messing with Alt key, which by the way doesn't work for me either
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