I've had a dual solar set-up for about 11 years. I had just 1480 watts, off grid from 2008 until 2012, when I got grid power and added 4840 watts, grid tie only. I have 4840 watts grid tied and 1480 watts, battery back-up and grid tied.
I recently needed to change my battery bank because the Trojan 48V bank got too old. I just need battery back-up for one circuit, which is a back up electric heater in case my propane furnace fails and the grid goes down. This circuit will just heat 1 well insulated, very small room (130 cu. ft, with 3" foam insulation R 18) which houses 1 piece of sensitive equipment used in the making of maple syrup.
I bought a 48V (nominal) bank of Sinopoly prismatic cells, LiFePo4. The charge specs call for setting charge voltages to 53.0 v top, 50.0 v bottom. I need to set these in a custom battery type. How can I do that? Do I need to download a custom battery type, the XW MPPT 60 only shows Flooded, AGM and GEL, no custom option.
I have the battery bank connected but for now I can only charge manually. I turn on the solar panels and the CC charges the battery bank, when it gets to 53.1 V I turn them off. Since I only use the 100AH bank to run 1 heater at 1250 watts, which only runs about 15 minutes out of each hour when the temps are at zero outside the bank does not run too low in one night. The only other thing in the battery bank is a DC-DC converter, 48V to 12V and a 65 watt heat pad to maintain the batteries inside an insulated enclosure.
How can I set either the CC or thru the SCP the voltages within this narrow range?
I recently needed to change my battery bank because the Trojan 48V bank got too old. I just need battery back-up for one circuit, which is a back up electric heater in case my propane furnace fails and the grid goes down. This circuit will just heat 1 well insulated, very small room (130 cu. ft, with 3" foam insulation R 18) which houses 1 piece of sensitive equipment used in the making of maple syrup.
I bought a 48V (nominal) bank of Sinopoly prismatic cells, LiFePo4. The charge specs call for setting charge voltages to 53.0 v top, 50.0 v bottom. I need to set these in a custom battery type. How can I do that? Do I need to download a custom battery type, the XW MPPT 60 only shows Flooded, AGM and GEL, no custom option.
I have the battery bank connected but for now I can only charge manually. I turn on the solar panels and the CC charges the battery bank, when it gets to 53.1 V I turn them off. Since I only use the 100AH bank to run 1 heater at 1250 watts, which only runs about 15 minutes out of each hour when the temps are at zero outside the bank does not run too low in one night. The only other thing in the battery bank is a DC-DC converter, 48V to 12V and a 65 watt heat pad to maintain the batteries inside an insulated enclosure.
How can I set either the CC or thru the SCP the voltages within this narrow range?
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