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Yes...Tarpon Springs very close to sponge docks.

Dock power is off. But I recently added the Victron MP2 and plenty of lithium. Also have Verizon home internet that takes very little juice. And finally added Zumimal pan/zoom wifi cameras. Currently pulling 6.5 amps out of the 920ah bank. Plenty of capacity. So because of this I can monitor...

1) Added the Cielo wifi AC interface for the Marinaire AC unit. The Marinaire thermostat isnt very good and hard to read. But the Cielo interfaces with it and its going through my wifi. So I can turn on the AC before I leave for the boat and its cool when I get there. 2) added these Chinese...

Good points and I tend to view warranty the same. Don't get me wrong, if you receive a faulty battery they should warranty it out ASAP. But if my current lithium batts crap the bed in 3 or 4 years...I am almost guaranteed to look into a different direction since I am pretty certain in 3 or 4...

Panbo just came out with an article on them today and these batteries look great. Cost is good too,

One thing to consider, I have had drop in lifepo4 with and without bluetooth. IMO bluetooth is a must. ****edit** As a matter of fact bluetooth and an on/off switch somewhere. The reason for that is these batteries have a ton of electronics inside. They also have many parameters for shut down...

Thats for the 460 Essentials line. The 460 Marine is 300 continuous each. And in testing has shown to be able to easily eclipse that. But yes...space is often a major concern for sure.

Very unfortunate. They were a well liked battery.

Believe it or not my Multiplus 2 also has the same 60 minute absorb time. I wish I could lower it. But how much of absorb time is actually somewhat dependent on what your absorption voltage is set to. Any absorption voltage over about 13.6 can completely charge a Lifepo4 battery to full capacity...

I have a pair of the Epoch 460ah Marine batteries with the Victron comms. You dont need to use Victron comms to make them work. As a matter of fact I have a full Victron set up and do not use the Victron comms...or atleast not for control. Details of the Epoch are imported into the Victron...

As far as I know Kilovault is out of business about a year ago.

Very very nice. Soon I will swap out my old Balmar for either the WS500 or the Zues. Still waiting for the dust to settle there. But this is fantastic.

Maybe. But lets just say I am not 100% convinced there is zero increased zinc loss with stray AC current over time in all cases. But amps you cite for the density you reference was also applied over meters squared in every paper I referenced. So something like 400 amps over 10 sq/ft was often...

I think some of the discrepancy comes in classifying zinc wasting rate or even rapid galvanic corrosion VS just having a slightly elevated loss of zincs. In my case I was changing zincs only slightly faster than my dock neighbors. If I let them erode more I could get 6 months from them before I...

Yes..there was 4 amps of AC leakage when the neutral and ground were reversed at the plug that supplied power to the lead acid battery bank charger at the time. It was measured that about 3.7xx of that AC leakage was measured returning through the green ground system with shore power cord...

Here is what I found on my boat while rewiring and adding the Lithium, and inverter/charger system and ELCI. In prep for the ELCI I wanted to check for leakage prior so I wouldn't lock my self out. Prior to this I had to change zincs about every 4 months. So much that I gave my divers free...

I just bought a Chin's 48 volt 100ah battery right off Amazon for $799 on sale for my Electric Zero turn mower. Been using if for a month now. All works great. The lead acid agm replacements would have cost $100 more. And the cheap Chins batt can probably mow 3 times as much (maybe 2.5 to 3...

Looking over the MG batteries they look like higher end batteries, probably better than Epoch and most others. Hard to say what glitches and anomalies the package may have but a 300ah x 24 volt is nice.

They continue to move forward as well. They just dropped a 300ah dual purpose cranking battery. In several months they will have additional large 24 and 48 volt batteries as well. They aren't without a few quirks, but the battery and performance is great. A new tear down video just came out...

That is pretty bad service leaving all that disconnected and closing it up. Definately left you a potential land mine there. Very poor communication. And from the sound of it, very poor troubleshooting. But you're operational again, so thats a plus..lol.

13.2 float may be a bit low depending on exact details. That could bring you down in soc well below 50% under some conditions.

Consider another POV. What is a refit boat worth to YOU. If the boat was purchased for very little as a fixer upper and you got the interior and exterior up to par and then refit with new electronics, lithium, Inverters, autopilot etc to the point that the boat is fully mission capable and then...

I think you said you had solar. The conclusions I have come to is that an absorption voltage range of 13.8 to 14.2 is probably fine. If you have plenty of time and plenty of amps to charge with I would trend towards the 13.8 range. But if you have limited solar, limited daylight and no gen or...

There is valve seals and then there is valve sealing. Two different things. Valve seals are the little pressed on Viton seals that go under the valve springs/retainers on the valve stem and control oil as the valve moves up and down inside the valve guides. Bad valve seals are usually...

Why would you want 50% capacity in 10 years? That's quite a bit of decline over time and you may extrapolate 25% decline in 5 years. That would be unacceptable to most. Rod Collins just did his 15 year anniversary capacity test and still got over 100% capacity out of his 400ah bank. He espouses...