Good morning daily

[Greynomad]

In the 24hrs to 18:00 yesterday, our rain gauge recorded 35mm.
More forecast today… 🌧
All three rainwater tanks are chockers & overflowing. We’re set if the summer is dry…
At least we now have grass cover uphill from the carport. No more sweeping mud off after light rain.

[Newcastle George]

Did you buy some turf Ray?

George

[Greynomad]

No. Several boxes of kikuyu seeds… liberally spread & watered, mainly from the water tanks.
SWMBO also spent hours cutting kikuyu runners where they’re NOT wanted & planting them where we DO want them to grow.

[T1 Terry]

The wind blowing up the river this morning was creating white tops on the waves across the lagoon in front of our house. The water level is so high now I can't get down to the solar panels for the river pump and the plastic drums are now floating the panels up into the reeds, it will be real interesting getting them back out of there when the river level drops again

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

This will be interesting to follow.

How will the internal bluetooth BMS he's using adapt to the increased capacity?

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/194472958629? I guess the job has to be less than $3675.

Finally reached the cell testing stage today for the Enerdrive 300Ah battery. The labels says standard max current draw is 99 amps, so over a 3 hr test the battery should deliver 297Ah while still holding above the minimum cell voltage of 2.8v while still under the 99 amp load ...... Will know if it passed or not within the the next 30 mins

T1 Terry

[jon_d]

Never a dull moment.... I guess that's why they're solar panels.

[T1 Terry]

Never a dull moment.... I guess that's why they're solar panels.

Ummmm...... Anyway, the battery voltage dropped below 10.5v before the 300Ah was reached, at the end the load was only 87 amps due to the lower battery voltage, cell 2 dropped to 2.38, the other 3 cells at around the 2.7v and 10.5v shut down resulted in 251.7Ah out of the 300Ah battery.
At least it gives me a figure to work with when I add the 200Ah Winston cells, I should get at least 451.7Ah eh

T1 Terry

[jon_d]

Terry,

Which model Enerdrive battery is it.
Some of them have a blue tooth enabled battery monitoring system ("BMS")which shows things like SOC. eg
https://enerdrive.com.au/product/epower ... m-battery/

Q: assuming it is a bluetooth BMS battery, how do you plan to update the capacity in the BMS settings? Is it possible?

[BernieQ2]

Good morning all.
We ended up in Bundaberg yesterday...can now finish the vinyl flooring.
And more shrubs to plant....I think it's cheaper to leave Carol home
But first...it's bacon and egg's day at our abode.
And not a cloud to be seen...it's a bit fresh all that water around and the wind, not helping.
Bernie.

[bob r]

Morning Bernie and others bit fresh alright only 13 this morning
Got a start on the mowing about half done might get finished today or tomorrow.

Bob