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Quote from: Mike W on Today at 08:06:36 AMWith boB's tragic and untimely passing does anyone know if his work on the lithium code for the Classic is being pursued? Is 3800 the last code in beta?I used Bobs lithium firmware for a long time and never had the SOC issue. That is until I had to do some kind of reset on my system and then all of a sudden the SOC at 0 started.
I have a 150 that has the 0% SOC issue. A VMM did not help and I tried boB's trick to force the SOC to 100% and as he expected it did not work.
Mike
Quote from: ClassicCrazy on Today at 12:07:57 AMWhy don't you just get another controller ? Or upgrade to a bigger controller that can handle more power ?
Quote from: Onlooker on February 05, 2025, 06:00:28 PMBump...
Well the Renogy Rover 40A system has been running since the original post in 2023 with ~1000Watts and regular Error "PV Power Overload". I put a 5" fan right on the back(heat sink, otherwise passively cooled) of the charge controller and I know it's no guarantee(depending where the heat is generated and the temperature sensor), but it runs cooler to the sensor & touch on the heatsink with the cooling fan and "Power overload" than without the fan and 500w/no-"power overload".
I still want more low light performance and.. I think I'm about to super-duper risk blowing the Renogy controller by attaching 1500 watts to the system to see if it handles it the same... Maybe it doesn't matter, once overloaded it's overloaded, since the output remains the same from 600w to 1000w input...
Any more details/warning on why this is extra bad idea, or might it continue to work? Depends on the mechanism the controller is using to throttle power I suppose.
Or I wonder if there might be a cheap automated way to 'connect more panels' when there is less light.