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Blowby from the oil filler cap and the valve cover seal points away from any valve issue and to either a head gasket issue or a piston ring issue. In reality the oil filler cap, valve cover cavity and oil dipstick all lead to the same chamber. Not sure why no chugging came from the dipstick. The...

Those voltages sound high. Just some additional thinking out loud on the topic overall.... Please take everything I say on the topic with a grain of salt. It would seem, for absorb, you cant really just say that there is a standard absorption time. A need to absorb, or not can be based on a...

Its really the opposite...charging to absorb voltage (provided its the correct voltage) and watching amps drop to a low level will inform you of a full charge more than a SOC meter.

What charger? What are the charge parameters set? What are you using to determine SOC? Are you able to set absorption time..or possibly tail current to exit absorption? How many amps are still going in at the end of your typical charge day if you hit the absorption voltage? LFP does not have to...

I don't know. That's quite a bit of smoke. Starting it the previous day with "less" smoke isn't helpful..lol. Why does he think he has blow by? With all the details so far, including the valve details, a leak down test is in order. Not just a compression test...but leak down test as well. That...

Its a pretty interesting topic. A very good BMS is pretty amazing, Coupled with a quality fuse and you have the best of both worlds. In most modern BMS's there are several layers of current protection. All deal with current over time. For instance on the Epoch 460 the Short Circuit Protection (...

One of the main concerns for success with drop in batteries, especially newer ones that have certain features (like the latest Litime or Epoch and others), is the ability to set custom charge profiles for absorption and float. Especially if you have batts in parallel. If you have an inverter...

Some of these "halfway decent" batteries dont appear to do what they should do. Many complaints on drop ins are that they are too quick to shutdown on a particular amp load. But not shutting down at all is probably worse. Of course that is just confirmation for the need of a proper fuse. But I...

On the Epoch 460 there is a 500amp, 50k AIC rated fuse inside each battery. Then I have 250 amp MRBF on each positive terminal.

You might check to see if you have a manual button on the solenoid. It took me a year before I accidentally bumped it and found out I had one..lol.

Keep going! It will all be worth the effort.

24 years...lol. I guess I cant judge too hard. I used the one that came with the boat for a few years and I have no idea how old it was. My marina recently replaced the shore power pedestals, so I took that opportunity to buy a nice new cord and replace the boats shore power plug. Should be good...

These seem somewhat typical.

Couple more. Pretty far out, on our way towards the crater. Still massive devastation. This one is scary. This a a massive area in view. Miles and miles. maybe 10 or 15. Very hard to tell. This area that is now leveled was just a few days prior, mountainous valleys and canyons with lush...

Looks good!

A few days after the eruption, when we flew the vulcanologist to the crater, you can see some of those hellscapes. All of those areas were lush green forests with 100 ft trees. As we approched the area some of the valleys were filled with hundreds of feet of ash and now leveled. There are some...

Volcanic eruptions are hard to get your head around. Many years ago I was in the Marines and in the Philippines at Subic Bay when Mt Pinatubo Erupted in the largest eruption in the last hundred or so years. Amazingly it happened while there was a Typhoon as well..lol. Our hanger was one of the...

Many large battery manufacturers are now implementing something call "Full charge protection" to ensure drop in batteries make their rated cycle count. Roypow, LiTime, Epoch and many others. It is probably assumed by these manufacturers that average users will not properly set up high quality...

A minimalist system for overnighting....The new Victron Orion 50 amp DC2DC charger is an excellent unit. Its very efficient and does not heat up like the old one. To help your internally regulated alternator you can adjust amp output from 0-50 amps in .1 increments. So essentially you can use...

Here is a good rundown of the settings. Although Weak AC typically stifles charge capacity it may or may not have an affect on pass through. Same with accept wide frequency range, usually this is when the Quatto/MP will not accept AC power. But it may be enough under the conditions you say to...

A few things I can think of that may have an effect. Make sure weak AC is disabled and also try "accept wide frequency range" settings. Easy to check and try.

Check out Will Prowses latest video covering his " favorite bifacial solar panel of 2024" or something like that. The price per output is amazing.

Been a while since I posted an update. Not because I haven't been continuously working on the boat but because videos get in the way of working on the boat..lol. But I am all done with the Lithium, Victron and rewiring. I was able to video most of the process. I probably removed 30lbs of unused...