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The problem with this is. The medium that's shorting out the battery needs to be able to withstand the buildup of heat in the battery. If you're using the stranded wire. You need to make sure that it continuously keeps a good connection. If you're using nickel strip you got to make sure the way you attached it and then they will strip itself can handle the heat. But the easiest way to short out a . It is too short out the positive contact with the case of the battery. The shorter length of whatever you're using would provide least resistance and let the battery get hotter
Just an observation, not knowing the exact product number, but assuming 4 Ah per cell: I count 180 cells from your video. Considering it requires 4 cells in series to get 12.8 v, then paralleling the 45 series groups yields 180 Ah capacity theoretically. Not a detracting observation to your well presented info.
Ive been saving to buy the digital version(MOES) with much shorter delay time than this mechanical one.Will Prowse has vids. demonstrating running computers and (I believe) even a window AC. Rated for 100k switches!...but this mechanical one ....IDK.
@@SynthToshi no you do grid tie where the appliance use the grid and then the solar sell back to grid. As said you can't or more should not run on only solar because solar need a backbone lite battery or grid
One thing is not clear for me. I have already setup circuit with breakers and everything. How I can switch those for different output eg solar power when both of them are active at the same time?
you cant have both inputs active at same time to same output unless they are made for it. An ATS switches source to the output and is often connected befre for instance a breaker panel feeding it
dps device. Like this: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=dps5020&_sacat=0&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338074051&toolid=11800&mkevt=1
Have you ever had overheating with this chip? My board looks exactly the same, but there's a notorious overheating issue that seems to be occurring with these boards recently which may be related to a cheap Chinese supplier. I have been trying to get my TTL<->RS232 connection to work with a firewall console cable -- almost the same as your setup -- except I'm using RJ45 pins 3,5,6 (rx,gnd,tx) and having a heck of a time getting it to work consistently.
@@DIYTechRepairs as i imagined, the victor max 10.2kw is , like every china inverter, useless with lack of any after market support. there are no manual or any kind of information about the rs232 pinout.
@@pam8352 They are often closed ports. in some rare cases you get help from the seller but yeah they only wanna sell and dont care about people want to use their equipment. You basically get what you pay for. Nowadays i always start by asking the seller if or how i can hook up to the device :D
Battery companies need to do better with this crap. I've never had this problem with the lithium batteries for my power tools. I have batteries that are like 15 years old that never go dead like e-bike batteries.
I cannot find an automatic switch that handles DC to DC 48 v array 100 amps I am not using an inverter, I have two 48v solar battery array, I want to use one as a back up, the only item I have hooked to it is connected directly to the MPPT charger. I would like to switch automatically one battery power bank to another when the voltage drop, the switch’s I found don’t handle 100amp input. Any suggestions how to find? I don’t want inverters at all, it would not be necessary for my application, it would only add problems. Thank you
If you add cost to the consideration (and you have the room), solar panels make more sense than the expensive direct solar heating option no matter how efficient. Moreover, you may have your energy demands covered on cloudy days (when the direct solar heating option won't work either).
@@DIYTechRepairs then what does the part where it says "shorted and go boom" mean lol...what's the fun In making your video title accurate? Gee idk I'll let you figure that one out
Do I understand correctly that reviewer bought the wrong configuration and then condemmned it as crap due to not being wired for the system it's not made for? So this is like the amazon review where they buy the one with the 3 foot cord and give it 1 star because they needed 6 feet? Better to look for a review for the product in it's correct application. Or am I missing something?
It was bought specifically for this market and marked to as that. But no. It was wrong. With that said the product is just bad. I had ordered wrong stuff before but this was not such an issue :)
@@DIYTechRepairs Ah okay, sorry. Seemed to be that others saw you had the wrong type for what you are testing but maybe they are wrong. Anyway, I decided against these for size and I only use simple two pole 120 VAC 15 amps so I could use a Xantrex RV type.
@@ceeweedsl yeah you could argue I picked the wrong one but it was advertised for my area. :) I use a normal contactor built for the purpose today so :)
Hi have a house with, 3Phase, Sungrow SH10RT 10kW Hybrid inverter and 16kW Sungrow SBR160 High Voltage Battery Modules , would this ATS works for my house battery system or, this is for the small solar caravan system? Thank you
Thank you very much for this excellent video . Could you please help me with my tenergy tb6b balance charger? I have lost the balance connectors and i need to charge three 18650 cells just like the video.but i don't know if i need to connect just these four cables ? Or the two red and black output port also? Thank you for your help
That switch is a three phase model , I have one and it is a clever bit of gear and the switch timing has a dead bit to stop the two supplies being in contact. I am happy with it. The only time the switches can be live on both is when they are pushed manually which cannot happen.
Where would i go in those git hub files to change the serial port command set? I have a Steca, but it uses many of the same codes, just for different functions. I thought I would see at least outlandish values, but I get 0 for every field. I even reversed the tx and rx just in case. The same pinout on a usb to serial works fine, so it's not the cable...I fear it's the operator. There are values in Wifi topic, but every other topic is blank. I tried MPI and PIP. No change.
bs ! i SINGLE drop of water on internal flashlamp charge port . with hiss and smoke result. it stopped power button turned off. i remove the batt and sent to recycle trash.
30ms would not shut down a computer. The PSU discharge isn't THAT low. It takes around 1-2s to completely discharge the PSU of a computer. It would indeed work for like a switch between solar, and grid power. Love the video though and very informative, thank you!
one thing i'm worried about. neutral breaker should connect first and disconnect last. if not, your house neutral will float short period and overvoltage in some phase(s) vs. floating neutral may happen.
Can't be done with a 10ms ats. The breakers also only break the hot lead. That is what you have the rcd for. It will break neutral if the current doesnt add up
