<div dir="ltr">Hi Kienan.<div><br></div><div>I am not familiar with these particular batteries but I have some experience with LFP.</div><div>Since there are no com wires from battery to battery, it seems that they have an internal BMS.</div><div>In this case, I would say that these batteries cannot be connected in series. From what I have seen, if you want a 48V battery bank with LFP, you have to order the batteries at this rated voltage from the beginning. You can connect several in parallel.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Roberto Kruse</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El lun., 4 mar. 2019 a las 7:23, Kienan Maxfield (<<a href="mailto:maxfieldsolar@hotmail.com">maxfieldsolar@hotmail.com</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I just got back from looking at an off-grid system that is only about 4 months old or so, and it has several problems. I have specialized in off-grid for 8 years, so most of the problems will be easy for me, but there's just one thing that is a bit perplexing
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The system was "designed" by some retailer in Texas (I don't know who) and the home-owner found some local installer to put it together for him (they already charged a ridiculous price and they won't come back). The battery is a big bank of DKD LiFePO4 batteries,
each one says 100 Ah @ 12.8V. They are in series sets of 4 for 48V. I think there were 5 strings (500 ah total). There are no com wires from battery to battery or anything like that (nor did I find anywhere for com ports). I have not yet been successful in
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>I will be fixing the other things in his system, but when he asks what I think about his battery bank, I don't know what to tell him at this point. He also has no idea how to tell
how full his batteries are, and since it doesn't seem like his batteries have any kind of readout or anything, I'm not sure what to tell him on that either. If I could find a Voltage/SOC curve or a voltage/SOC conversion table, that would help on that front.</span></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>Thank-you,</span></font></div>
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