Re: [RE-wrenches] Older Sunny Islands charging newer Lithium's

2024-03-01 Thread Glenn Burt via RE-wrenches
errors.-- Original message--From: Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar via RE-wrenchesDate: Fri, Mar 1, 2024 8:03 PMTo: RE-wrenches;Cc: Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar;Subject:Re: [RE-wrenches] Older Sunny Islands charging newer Lithium's AES is closed loop with 7 inverter manufacturers (not Outback and I

Re: [RE-wrenches] Older Sunny Islands charging newer Lithium's

2024-03-01 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar via RE-wrenches
hes] Older Sunny Islands charging newer Lithium's My fellow wrenchers. Have sought help from SMA but they just defer to owner's manuals and the older batteries listed.. I have a customer with two SMA 5048's, roughly 11 years old and appear to be working fine. Customer wants to move to LIPO batterie

Re: [RE-wrenches] Older Sunny Islands charging newer Lithium's

2024-03-01 Thread Glenn Burt via RE-wrenches
I recently went through this wxwrcise with an old customer of mine as well.I spent a lot of time researching options. Manufacturers and conversations with SMA regarding their support of a conversion to Life storage.Bottom line for me was that SMA does not support any lithium battery

Re: [RE-wrenches] Older Sunny Islands charging newer Lithium's

2024-03-01 Thread Mac Lewis via RE-wrenches
Hi Peter, The Sunny Islands will work with Lithium, but there can be challenges. The Blue Ion to Sunny Island communication works really well, you need a Namaka box for that. This would be a great but expensive way to go. The difficulties with Sunny Island and no communication to BMS is when

Re: [RE-wrenches] Older Sunny Islands charging newer Lithium's

2024-03-01 Thread Jerry Shafer via RE-wrenches
SMA and Li Tech I have replaced quite a few batteries with LIPh and the only thing on the 4048's is setting a temp sensor at default 77 Degrees and on the 5048"s as i recall can be closed loop with fortress and Blue Planet. Fun Times On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 12:52 PM Peter Giroux via RE-wrenches <

Re: [RE-wrenches] Older Sunny Islands charging newer Lithium's

2024-03-01 Thread William Miller via RE-wrenches
* pgir...@mindspring.com *Subject:* [RE-wrenches] Older Sunny Islands charging newer Lithium's My fellow wrenchers. Have sought help from SMA but they just defer to owner’s manuals and the older batteries listed.. I have a customer with two SMA 5048’s, roughly 11 years old and appear to be workin

[RE-wrenches] Older Sunny Islands charging newer Lithium's

2024-03-01 Thread Peter Giroux via RE-wrenches
My fellow wrenchers. Have sought help from SMA but they just defer to owner's manuals and the older batteries listed.. I have a customer with two SMA 5048's, roughly 11 years old and appear to be working fine. Customer wants to move to LIPO batteries and keep his SMA's. Has anybody made these