Hi Deven, Part two is here: https://www.morganscloud.com/2025/08/26/making-large-alternators-safer-with-whitespace-programming/ I suspect the specialist is right that the alternator won’t last long and…
Hi Eric, You wrote me back in a previous post about the failure I had with putting a too big…
Hi Mark, Yes, but that does not alter what I wrote: that there is no good reason, other than curiosity,…
Yeah, it doesn’t require two current measurements, but it does require measurement of what the alternator is producing, not just…
Hi Mark, I think we are making this more complicated than it needs to be. My point was simply to…
Hi Mark, Yup, but that’s not a restriction since if DVCC is being used the shunt is not even required…
Wakespeed’s Communication and Configuration Guide v2.6.0: There are dependencies for allowing DVCC to be utilized:… The Current Shunt must be…
Sure, but not all battery manufacturers make that distinction. Some give just one figure for loss of capacity (e.g. 5%…
Hi Raj, Thanks for the confirmation, always good to have real world experience to back these things up. Do you…
Hi Frank, Eric explains in this article why there is no way to accurately determine whether or not a given…
Hi Mark, Sure, I agree with all of that. Seems like we are on the same page that if we…
H i Karl, Sure, that’s another option, that said, if the battery has an internal BMS I would want to…
This is what I did last winter; completely disconnected my Victron LiFePO4 bank at about 70% charge. No issues in…
Ugh… correcting more of my sloppiness: Meanwhile, the battery capacity or the amount that battery voltage must drop to produce…
Yeah, this is getting into terminological sloppiness again, to which I’ll plead guilty. If we define self-discharge as just what…
Hello Eric, I have a configuration with max. two 4kw alternators on a Perkins 4236. The engine has no less…
I don’t have lithium on my large boat, though that one’s in Florida, so freezing temps are not ever going…
Hi Rob, No you are not missing anything. In fact I say in the tip that this could be managed…
Hi Mark, That’s interesting, but not what I found in the bit of research I did (see the linked paper…
I don’t, precisely. They did not seem to have experienced significant self discharge because they reached full around the same…