@@donsdoityourself2547 Good to hear from you, too. We are still doing pretty good all things considered. I hope you and Mrs. Smith are still fighting the good fight and are living a blessed life. You are good folks and deserve the best.
I just bought a 100ah lifepo4 but have not bought a charger for it yet. I have ~ 1300watts of solar panels and a seperate 100watt solar panel. Instead of relying on your bms to act as a charge controller, have you thought of running your charging power supply through your solar charge controller to safeguard your bms ? You might be able to increase your charging supply voltage ? I am interested in your reply.
I am not 100% sure I understand your question. However, the BMS is there to protect the battery and has very wide parameters to accept charge from a variety of devices, but whatever is used needs to be compatible with LiFePo4 and not exceed the 14.6VDC needed for charging. If you are wanting to connect something that will put out more than 14.6 v through the solar controller to have it limit to 14.6 maximum that may work, but I wouldn't do it. It is not recommended by most solar chargers to connect other types of power supplies to the solar controller especially if the supply would drive more current that the solar panel array. An option may be a DC to DC converter capable of the desired voltages. Best wishes.
That's pretty sweet! I definitely want to build up a battery like that.
Thanks! It was fun to build.
Nice! I didn't know they lost function in the extreme cold.
Yes, lithium batteries are sensitive to cold temperatures.
Good to hear from you. Hope all is well with you.
@@donsdoityourself2547 Good to hear from you, too. We are still doing pretty good all things considered. I hope you and Mrs. Smith are still fighting the good fight and are living a blessed life. You are good folks and deserve the best.
Excellent. Thank you.
You are welcome!
I just bought a 100ah lifepo4 but have not bought a charger for it yet. I have ~ 1300watts of solar panels and a seperate 100watt solar panel. Instead of relying on your bms to act as a charge controller, have you thought of running your charging power supply through your solar charge controller to safeguard your bms ? You might be able to increase your charging supply voltage ? I am interested in your reply.
I am not 100% sure I understand your question. However, the BMS is there to protect the battery and has very wide parameters to accept charge from a variety of devices, but whatever is used needs to be compatible with LiFePo4 and not exceed the 14.6VDC needed for charging. If you are wanting to connect something that will put out more than 14.6 v through the solar controller to have it limit to 14.6 maximum that may work, but I wouldn't do it.
It is not recommended by most solar chargers to connect other types of power supplies to the solar controller especially if the supply would drive more current that the solar panel array.
An option may be a DC to DC converter capable of the desired voltages.
Best wishes.