Pellet heads!! What's up today?

I am convinced.

 

I had a BB2000 installed yesterday, used it this morning tomorrow I fail pt. Oh well hypotension gone.

 

I've heard some of the solar gens have a heating element for low temps. I don't know how expensive they are.

You could also think of a low watt heated blanket that is DC for the Jackery.

I set up 2 of my larger battery stations as backups for my pellet stoves when I was on vacation last week. I also set up one of the smaller ones for the desktop computer/router/wifi (only pulls about 25w when sleeping/idle and 38w when working). Gave me huge peace of mind that if there was a power outage, they would be covered for some time.

 

I tossed this together a few weeks ago. There's a YT chanel where a guy test a bunch of lithium batteries. I think he's done some with built-in heaters. Are some inverters cranky in the cold?

I don't think I'll do any solar stuff, can't remember the last time the sun was out.

200ah batteries x2, 5000w continuous inverter, lithium converter.

 

The batteries I got have low and high temp cutoff. Zero degrees discharge and 32f charging. Hopefully if I need to use them it's not below zero or I'll have other problems. Haven't tried the inverter in cold stuff yet, hopefully it works fine.

 

Happy New Year pellet pigs.I wish all good health and warmth in the coming polar vortex.

 

LifPo4 batteries are cranky in the cold. Older battery technology is fine with cold (or at least, "finer" down to much lower temps). As much as people hype LifPo4 batteries, they tend to gloss over that little nugget. There are advantages and disadvantages to each type of battery, you just need to be aware so you can be prepared.

Heated blankets have become fairly popular for car travel, I see them for as little as $22 when I google it. Or, you could try seedling mats - I didn't see any that were DC at first glance, but there have to be some.

AFAIK, you won't "kill" a battery by using in too low of temp - it will just stop doing whatever it is doing to protect itself. Once it warms up, it will be good to go. Same thing with high heat, it will shut off until cool enough. The manual should tell you operating temps

This is from one of my EF products


And this is from my Bluetti



If you have read this far, HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

Happy New Year bye whoever.

Guess who pulled a steady 120/80 Monday afternoon yeah no amplodipne it is gone.

 

I've had lipo batteries for a few years now. I listed my batteries cutoff above. The temperature cutoff is for protection. As the battery chemistry doesn't allow outside a certain temp range without damage.

It's important to get batteries that actually have these temp cutoff limits to not damage them. I'm not that concerned with the temperature for this setup. If I had these in a rv I would pay extra and get heated ones.

I've had a few high dollar AGM deep cycle batteries over the years, they don't come close to lipo in every way possible.

 

I don't know about the Pecron app, but my apps have a place that I can limit how far the battery will drain. I have them set at 10%. Every once in a while I do remove the limit, take them down to zero then immediately charge back up to 100% to calibrate the BMS.

 

NICE!