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Hello I have a module of Paralled cells 4x16 = 64 Cells I than stack my Module all 96 of them for 405VDC .so I got a 96S 64P setup can DIYBMS handle this? If not would an esp32 work

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Hello @smssorin its quite common for import tax/customs charges to be made when receiving packages from China. Which country are you in ?

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Hi @DeWayne, as I mentioned via private message, I wouldnā€™t want to be using high DC voltages like you mention with any BMS let alone one which is DIY focused!

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Do you have a local PCB company who can make the boards for you? JLCPCB also have other shipping companies you can use, cheaper than DHL.

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Because Jonisonveapa was looking for the ESP Controller BOM I upload two interactive HTML BOM. (the esp controller and diybms v4 ) Donā€™t use Internet Explorer, is not working but I had no problems with FireFox.

https://ufile.io/y5oh5tl0

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Thanks think I found it in the end but this will make sur

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Hello,
Iā€™m just starting building my battery packs Iā€™m making 7s6 to start, and get boards working.

Just wondering what capacity bank is needed to run a home ie how many watts an average household uses in a day ?

I was thinking to start remove the downstairs ring main and run that first and see how that goes. Or make a small ring main and run tv and vedio :slight_smile: just to get a bit of experience.

Iā€™m pretty clued up on inverters electronics ect, I the past I have design and build electronic equipment, / pcb design, but I donā€™t have experiencen in solar chargers, I live in a windy area Cornwall so Iā€™m building a wind turbine as well, I can get lots of energy off that.

My dream is to go off grid, if I can Iā€™m hopeful buying land and living the dream, going off grid :slight_smile:

So really need to know what capacity battery packs I am aiming for ? Iā€™m sure there is a theritical figure, but Iā€™m sure in the real world it will be different?

Wonder if anybody has some real world data to hand ?

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Do you have a smart meter? If so that will tell you the consumption, if not look at setting up an openenergymonitor unit to get the same type of info.

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Start small, but remember that changes to the electrical circuits in the house, or connecting stuff to the grid needs to be done in a safe and compliant manner, probably by a registered/qualified electrician!

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Will do got a friend who is a sparkie

Thanks for the boards stuart arrived this morningšŸ‘

Will get a smart meter, (smartish)

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Hi, just building my v4 controller board,and just seen the wifi card Is it this one?

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Yes is the right one. Someone can do a small video tutorial about how to programme the Wemos D1 and the diybms v4 using the PlatformIO. I install the libraries and Iā€™m still getting some errors.

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Thank you

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Hello
Im having truble with the Batt board, im Stuggling to find r3 r4 the voltage devider values, they are an odd number, pin 5 atiny 841, does 490k a d 470k work?
Ok got these :grin: .

Also 2r2 10w Rsā€™ what package size are these?
I dont have my window tower pc to hand at the moment.
Thanks

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Thats optional, if you are using the surface mount 2012 1W resistors donā€™t include this part.

I would recommend sticking with the original resistor values for all parts, we wonā€™t be able to fault fix if you are building your own variant!

All parts are easily available, they are standard resistor values, just on different ā€œEā€ series. The files include a bill of materials from LCSC including part numbers and order codes.

Farnell also has these parts - 402K resistor = https://uk.farnell.com/panasonic/erj6enf4023v/res-402k-1-0-125w-0805-thick-film/dp/2303830

475K resistor = https://uk.farnell.com/panasonic/erj6enf4753v/res-475k-1-0-125w-0805-thick-film/dp/2303841?st=475K%200805

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Thanks

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IMG_20190720_182456
IMG_20190720_1824564032Ɨ3024 2.49 MB
Got a test environment ready. Webserver works so far. I currently got stuck in the communication. I have no oscilloscope at hand and feel a little bit blind.
The ESP tells me

Send:80/3/EA=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =9210/Q:0 # Rules:1 0 0 0 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1
Send:80/1/EB=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =C05F/Q:1 # Send:80/3/EC=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =EAAD/Q:0 # Send:80/1/ED=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =B8E2/Q:1 #Send:80/3/EE=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =C2C6/Q:0 # Rules:1 0 0 0 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1
Send:80/1/EF=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =9089/Q:1 # Send:80/3/F0=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =48AE/Q:0 # Send:80/1/F1=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =1AE1/Q:1 #Send:80/3/F2=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =60C5/Q:0 # Rules:1 0 0 0 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1
ā€¦

The CellModule is sometimes blinking green, sometimes blinking red (balancing). Checked RX/TX on both boards. Tried to compile with

#define DIYBMS_DEBUG

but got

/home/user/.platformio/packages/toolchain-atmelavr/bin/ā€¦/lib/gcc/avr/5.4.0/ā€¦/ā€¦/ā€¦/ā€¦/avr/bin/ld: .pio/build/attiny841/firmware.elf section .text' will not fit in region textā€™
/home/user/.platformio/packages/toolchain-atmelavr/bin/ā€¦/lib/gcc/avr/5.4.0/ā€¦/ā€¦/ā€¦/ā€¦/avr/bin/ld: region `textā€™ overflowed by 94 bytes
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
*** [.pio/build/attiny841/firmware.elf] Error 1

Also got some warning regarding crc16/char*/uint8_t*

lib/settings/settings.cpp: In static member function ā€˜static void Settings::WriteConfigToEEPROM(char*, int, uint16_t)ā€™:
lib/settings/settings.cpp:14:59: warning: invalid conversion from ā€˜char*ā€™ to ā€˜uint8_t* {aka unsigned char*}ā€™ [-fpermissive]
uint16_t checksum = CRC16::CalculateArray(settings, size); ^
In file included from lib/settings/settings.h:27:0,
from lib/settings/settings.cpp:1:
lib/crc16/crc16.h:12:23: note: initializing argument 1 of ā€˜static uint16_t CRC16::CalculateArray(uint8_t*, uint16_t)ā€™
static uint16_t CalculateArray(uint8_t data, uint16_t length);
^
lib/settings/settings.cpp: In static member function ā€˜static bool Settings::ReadConfigFromEEPROM(char*, int, uint16_t)ā€™:
lib/settings/settings.cpp:27:59: warning: invalid conversion from ā€˜char*ā€™ to ā€˜uint8_t* {aka unsigned char*}ā€™ [-fpermissive]
uint16_t checksum = CRC16::CalculateArray(settings, size); ^
In file included from lib/settings/settings.h:27:0,
from lib/settings/settings.cpp:1:
lib/crc16/crc16.h:12:23: note: initializing argument 1 of ā€˜static uint16_t CRC16::CalculateArray(uint8_t*, uint16_t)ā€™
static uint16_t CalculateArray(uint8_t data, uint16_t length);

Will debug further after a nap.

Regards and thanks a lot,
Mario

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Is there any kind of constraint requiring more than one CellModule?

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No, 1 module is fine.

You should see debug output with Send/Receive/Rules messages - at the moment you donā€™t have any receive.

Check the parts around the optoisolators - these control the transmit/receive, check pin 1 is correctly aligned.

Make sure TX goes to RX and RX goes to TX on the ā€œchainā€

How are you powering this module, what is the circuit board top right of the photo?

I use Platform.IO with ATOM IDE editor (although this combination isnā€™t recommended anymore by the platform.io authors)

When compiling the ATTINY code, it compiles okay and results in

DATA: [======= ] 69.7% (used 357 bytes from 512 bytes)
PROGRAM: [==========] 95.8% (used 7848 bytes from 8192 bytes)
[SUCCESS] Took 6.22 seconds

The WEMOS code compiles okay and returns

DATA: [==== ] 43.0% (used 35264 bytes from 81920 bytes)
PROGRAM: [===== ] 49.6% (used 518172 bytes from 1044464 bytes)
[SUCCESS] Took 29.76 seconds

Make sure you have updated the tool chain in Platform.IO these are the version numbers of the components I have:

Updating tool-scons @ 2.20501.7 [Up-to-date]
Updating tool-unity @ 1.20403.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating contrib-pysite @ 2.27.190418 [Up-to-date]
Updating contrib-piohome @ 2.2.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating tool-pioplus @ 2.5.2 [Up-to-date]

Platform Manager

Platform Atmel AVR

Updating atmelavr @ 1.14.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating toolchain-atmelavr @ 1.50400.190710 [Up-to-date]

Updating framework-arduinoavr @ 4.0.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating tool-avrdude @ 1.60300.190424 [Up-to-date]

Platform Atmel AVR

Updating atmelavr @ acca29b [Up-to-date]
Updating toolchain-atmelavr @ 1.50400.190710 [Up-to-date]
Updating framework-arduinoavr @ 4.1.1 [Up-to-date]
Updating tool-avrdude @ 1.60300.190424 [Up-to-date]

Platform Espressif 8266

Updating espressif8266 @ 2.2.2 [Up-to-date]
Updating tool-esptoolpy @ 1.20600.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating tool-mkspiffs @ 1.200.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating tool-esptool @ 1.413.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating framework-arduinoespressif8266 @ 2.20502.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating toolchain-xtensa @ 2.40802.190218 [Up-to-date]

Platform Espressif 8266 (Stage)

Updating espressif8266 @ c2bae9e [Up-to-date]
Updating tool-esptoolpy @ 1.20600.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating tool-mkspiffs @ 1.200.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating tool-esptool @ 1.413.0 [Up-to-date]
Updating toolchain-xtensa @ 2.40802.190218 [Up-to-date]

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Works now! The RX-Pin on the ATTINY was not proper connected.

The circuit board top right is a small LiPo-Charger. It charges up to 4.22V. Thatā€™s the reason why the ATTINY tryā€™s to balance the charge. And yes iā€™m aware of potential problem if i use multiple modules.

The reference is done. I will start to get familiar with your ESP8266-Code. Would like to proceed with ESP32 using BLE to a smartphone app and a e-Ink display to show a last will on low power shutdown. Scenario is LiFePo4 usage in a Camper Van.

I would like to control two Smart BatteryProtect to stop charging and discharging from the BMS. Has someone experience with such a device? It has a remote bridge, but i would like to avoid high current magnetic Relais.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Mario

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