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We have installed and sold over a hundred of our chargers here in Aus, NZ, PNG and Indonesia, there is also a really good lifepo4 solar charge controller now being produced in NZ, which is just like ours. The understandable problem is, it's very hard for people to get out of the lead acid mind set and look at lifepo4 from a very different perspective and the only way you can do that is be experimentation and real hands on use with big and small systems. We've spent many years working with these and it was only a couple of years ago we made the break from lead acid mentality to lifepo4, the results have been great and now we don't even need a cumbersome BMS. We use simple raspberry Pi's running linux to control our pack enclosure temperatures and to control outputs from individual banks in the pack, which again improve the performance of the system. In fact everything in our business runs on linux, which is 21st century technology and we get the same thing from those trapped in last century junk windows and apple. But they can't do what we can and like all fools, run our computer ans off grid systems down. Now we are getting solar and battery retailers inquiring about our systems and chargers. We don't even advertise, nor have a website, all our work comes from customer referral which is all the acceptance we need.
Of course those programmed in the past century approach are extremely reluctant to change, our engineers had great trouble accepting my idea's for this and everyone I spoke to with qualifications said it wouldn't work. Once our engineers put a test one together and tried it for a few days, they changed their minds and now are refining and making it better by developing it so it charges individual cells.
I'm lucky, not trapped in last century technology programming. so didn't find it hard to look at the situation and work out we needed something that just charged bulk inputs and stopped when it reached a set point. Then started bulk recharging at a point where it was not cycling.
Lifpeo4 handles it easily, everyone with real knowledge agrees they can take big charges and don't like floating or other last century settings and we have proved that in our own workshop and the field. So we have not invented anything, just put together all the facts to make something that suits the situation. With just a small amount of research throughout the industry, you will find we have done what the technology needs, according to all the information and nothing special.
Of course those programmed in the past century approach are extremely reluctant to change, our engineers had great trouble accepting my idea's for this and everyone I spoke to with qualifications said it wouldn't work. Once our engineers put a test one together and tried it for a few days, they changed their minds and now are refining and making it better by developing it so it charges individual cells.
I'm lucky, not trapped in last century technology programming. so didn't find it hard to look at the situation and work out we needed something that just charged bulk inputs and stopped when it reached a set point. Then started bulk recharging at a point where it was not cycling.
Lifpeo4 handles it easily, everyone with real knowledge agrees they can take big charges and don't like floating or other last century settings and we have proved that in our own workshop and the field. So we have not invented anything, just put together all the facts to make something that suits the situation. With just a small amount of research throughout the industry, you will find we have done what the technology needs, according to all the information and nothing special.
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