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That’s pretty neat that your solar array can keep the Mango charged with sunlight, while running your RV air conditioner. If it cools down at night, so that you don’t need AC, you have perpetual power.
Agree. I was thinking a simple configurable reserve battery setting. Like you could tell it to stop discharging at 5-10%, so there's plenty of battery to keep it alive until solar can start charging in the morning. Thanks
Thanks Brad. Good review. Some thoughts; Standardization - typically, Home and RV users will have 48V batteries - why not provide an Anderson connector to expand the capacity that can accept 48V, why do we have to put up with "expansion packs"? The thing is already expensive without the additional restrictions on expansion. Makes it less viable.
I was totally thinking it would be awesome to have direct external connection to the battery. I suppose there could be some issues with people not fully understanding how to do it correctly, and thus a plug-n-play expansion battery is the safer solution. I would like to see a DIY box like licitti has but 48v, I think something like that would hit a sweet spot. Thanks, Ben!
Really good units I helped out a family running the units on solar for over a year sad the mango company does not stand behind their product warranty but I found a recycler guy in LA and sells them for 1500 a piece or you can get the internal battery for 500 dollars he add lado sells all the internal replacement parts brand new I put one together for under 700 dollars and got 4 sets of batteries 14 kWh 1200 dollars and using. Growatt solar charge controller and a pure sine low frequency middle Atlantic ups inverter pushing 5000 watts solar and 4000 watts ac out of the ups
What BMS etc version is yours? Lots of known issues with the mango, seems to be a good product but lack in development of firmware to fix well known issues, glad to see you have the "safe" cables
@BradCagle that's the info I was looking for, more info is also on the touch screen but i dont rememer of the top of my head where it's at. I can tell by your cables you have atleast the 3rd revision, 1 & 2 had the cables with protruding connectors which were a shock hazard
That's not a beast of a power station, it only offers a 2X surge capacity which is pretty wimpy for a modern inverter. If your AC unit was any larger than a 1.5 kW load, this unit would never start it. Even worse, this mango, might start your AC unit when it's new, give it a year and I'll bet you that there's a good change that it won't still be running do to its cheap high frequency, transformerless design.
