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it was my understanding that the opposite is true.

thanks for sharing, i feel slightly less stupid now. it's definitely not in the manual.

thanks, i did not, its a stranded wire type pinch plate...if i had known i would have and ill do the next one differently.

Well fooey. i read that manual sixty times and must've missed that part. is this just common knowledge?

Well f&ck me running. Is this my fault? I had everything torqued properly and it was my understanding i could wire thhn directly into my battery terminal blocks. Southwire said 1/0 cable but 1 gauge was all i could fit in the block and the manual says to just follow local code for wire...

Well, like I said, all of the input has helped me understand my battery and system, even though its a roundabout learning method. So I appreciate everyone's participation. At this point in our solar adventure our goal was to maximize the equipment we could afford to backup critical loads and...

i thought we were talking about active balancing. ive been watching the pack and even when my delta is out of range the balancer doesn't come on at all when that "bal only when charging" button is off. for those of you who only actively balance occasionally, what's the trigger point for you?

What i mean is, the bms balancer never actually kicked on. i had the cells in range at 3.4 and above but the bms balancer didn't turn on. I'm not sure it matters though, the cells actually had less variance when it wasn't active. Maybe i just need to stop worrying about it so much.

welp. i dunno if i screwed something up last night when i was changing settings but it didn't balance at all today, charging or otherwise. ??

awesome, im finally down around 48 volts this morning and should have some sunshine today. ive changed my settings to be just a bit more conservative than yours and ill report back in. I appreciate all the help, I feel like I'm getting close.

awesome, just so im crystal clear: my cell target full charge with no load should be 3.4-3.5v unlike with lead acid batteries i don't need my charger setting 2 volts above my pack target to get there---ie---my absorb/float setting (for this one time at least) should be 54.4v. If i set my...

Thanks again all for chiming in...maybe the bms soc is right, ive pulled hard on the thing today and have barely used a tenth of a volt

cool, it was just reading normal until today, seems like i might have fucked something up unknowingly.

done, thanks. does anybody have any experience with soc discrepancy above? anyone?