Recent content by hughespat57

I understand they are a industry focused group not DIY friendly. There are two ways you can gain access to all the standards. Select a "trial membership" they allow full access to the standards I think it was two weeks. I downloaded all the areas I was interested in. A28, E2, E11, E13, H2...

@wholybee Good solution if you wanted to go the all on battery/inverter route. Even a large battery charger would only be around 600 watts (12V x 50A). Since the batteries/inverter are handling the house peaks the charger would catch up in between. Even I could find space for a 600 watt...

People keep insisting that a battery charger provides effective "isolation transformer" this is simply not true in most modern battery chargers. If you have an older heavy marine charger with a real 120/12 volt transformer yes. But the multi frequency/multi-voltage chargers today often do not...

While it certainly would be nice if all the devices played well together, it never seems to be the case. I use the battery app to monitor over all health and cell balance other than that I do everything from the Inverter. I set the BMS to 10% SOC low disconnect or if any one cell hits 5% (3.00...

I have the same system I struggled with this a bit myself. I wont get into my use case as it is very specific to a marine installation. In the end I realized it is of little concern, here is why: The BMS is not a charge and discharge controller, it is for battery PROTECTION this is an important...