Recent content by HughF

Generic Asian R290 unit this end.... Seems to do the job.

Not a fan, used it for 4-5yrs... I think the K9 setup is better, I had a lot of issues with the cellmon network connections on my blockmon M8's.

Orion is not batrium….. Orion good, batrium bad

£500 takes it. Collection from Dorset, UK. Temp sensor in the inverter is bad (common fault) but everything works as it should. Only retired this as the shed it’s in has to come down, and it won’t fit in the house so I’ve gone for a Sunsynk.

In my opinion, yes….

Into a failed pack….. parallel packs always need inter-pack fusing, with stuff that won’t catch fire. We were discusssing this 15+yrs ago on the outback power forum when I was messing with wet Nicad…

I have heavily abused my CALB plastic cased lfp cells, charging them when frozen, discharging them well below cut-off, charging them to 4v on occasion. They puffed up and failed, but they did not catch fire on me.

This is what I’ve got. Works a treat over here in mm2 land. I prefer it to my ebay special hydraulic one, mainly because it doesn’t leave wings.

Agreed, it’s the same over in mm2 land, the dies are always mis-marked. These things take a modicum of intellect to figure out, and if you lack the ability to see that then you probably shouldn’t play around with solar and ess stuff. I’ve since switched to a mechanical dimple indent crimper, it...

Hydraulic lug crimper is <$50 these days, no excuse not to have one.

Good to see you still keeping busy Bob…. Just retired my vfx3048e on fw500 hardware that’s been running continuously since 2007 - only retired it because the building it was located in needed to be demolished and it won’t fit on the wall in the house…

I’ve dismantled the pack that this bms was installed on so it’s now available: watchmon 4, 16x blockmon m8, shunt, some interconnect cables (one of the blockmon cables is damaged) The blockmon network wasn’t establishing completely reliably this last year or so, so I suspect a blockmon is...

I’ve just remembered that I have a weee skip on site still, I’ll just toss them in there. I’ve paid for it, might as well use it.

I’ve got waste matters coming down sometime this year to deal with some chemicals off this site so I might just make it their problem. I’ve also got the wet Nicad recyclers coming down, they might also be interested in taking them on, I’m paying enough to have the 4.5 tons of nicads recycled...

Does anyone have an easy disposal solution for end of life cells here in the UK? I’ve got 18x calb 210aH that are shot and need to go for recycling/disposal. They’re all puffed up something chronic and are ready for the scrap bin. 2010 date codes so they haven’t done bad.