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I have yet to add a second battery to my system. I will be doing this next month. Logic would tell me that the second battery would be set up just like the first battery in the BMS Studio, with the exception that the DIP switch setting would be different than the first battery. The total capacity should update on the inverter. In the event I find this to be inaccurate, I will update here. For now, this is what I have. Assuming you are adding batteries in parallel: On page 26 of the manual for the SEPLOS Vertical 280Ah Battery Pack, the DIP settings for a single battery will be all OFF. When adding a second battery, you need to set the first battery DIP to pin 5 ON. On the second battery, you need to set pin 1 ON. If adding a third battery, the setting for banks 1,2 and 3 are Pin 6 ON, Pin 1 On and Pin 2 ON with respect to each battery in that order. When adding a 4th battery bank, the DIP settings become slightly more complex. Up to 16 battery packs can be connected in parallel according to the manual. Please refer to the user manual for clarification, as the settings are only accurate at the time of this post and may also be misinterpreted.

I have yet to make that video. Unfortunately my PC died on me recently and I lost some data. You may need to use an altered RJ45 utilising pin 1,2 and 5. See my responses to @banhvo4958 for more info. Using any old lan cable could cause damage to the BMS. The settings you will want to change are: Settings - Baud rate 19200 and access COM 5 Parameter settings: Line 89 and 90 (capacity) 305Ah Line 102 (Voltage) I set to 56V, as the standard 57.6 was too high for my liking. I think that is all I changed. If you see Ah setting at 290Ah, change those to 305Ah if your capacity is 305Ah.

You will need to replicate some of these setting on your inverter if the batteries and inverter are to work in harmony. See my inverter settings video for help on this.

@GaryMeatsFood I have make a new cable with pin 1,2 and 5 and now I can connect to the bms ... but now when I set AoBo protocol on invertor there is an Alarm as batname fail. If i set on user define is no alarm

@@VladBYT If AoBo gives alarm, or battery fail warning, then user define is OK to use. You will need to change some settings on the inverter, especially the floating voltage and equalisation voltage. I set mine to 57V and 56.7V respectively.

@@VladBYT Also the reason why you have battery fail alarm is most likely because the battery protocol setting on the BMS has not been set. I believe it needs to be plyontech in the software if you are to use AoBo on the inverter. However, user define is perfectly fine.

Not all Doctors. My General Practitioner seems happy enough with my decision to switch to a carnivore diet.

Hello Hart. Thank you for your comment. I am happy to help the solar community, because they helped me. I do have some ideas and suggestions to help reduce the need for customers to reach out to Seplos or a solar forum after purchasing a kit if there is a problem. I also have a couple of practical product suggestions. What is the best email address to reach you directly?

I am by no means an expert, but it sounds like your cells are out of balance. The BMS will show 100% when the first cell reaches 100%. If this cell is out of balance by an average of 10% to the other cells, then the actual state of charge would be around 90%. To the end user, it looks like the capacity is drifting, when in fact the BMS is just protecting the cell which has the highest voltage. If you balance the cells, this should make the lost capacity available to you again....for a while, but it will drift again. You could balance them every 4-6 months, or as often as you like. A passive balancer won't do a proper job with cells far out of balance. You need an active balancer, or you can do a manual top balance.

Hi Alan. As mentioned in the video, the kit was purchased from www.fogstar.co.uk for about €600. It cost me €50 for it to be dropped off in Northern Ireland where I collected from. The battery cells were from www.eu.nkon.nl and the 16 B Grade cells cost a little over €1200 delivered. If you already have the tools and don't need to buy anything else, I would put a round figure of €2,000 on it, because you will ultimately need to spend money on something else. Fogstar sell the Seplos pre-made for about €2,300 (depending on exchange rate) which is not bad when you consider that the WECO 5kWh battery is being sold for €2,000 for a third of the battery capacity. Pylontech have a slightly smaller rack battery for a little under €1,500. It can be a bit daunting building a battery, even with a kit supplied and you do take on the risk of damaging the battery, your inverter, or both, so caution is advised. I have spent hundreds more on tools and materials, but much of these are tools I wanted to buy anyway, such as hydraulic and RJ45 crimps. I needed. I spent a few hundred on wood for cabinets, but I have improved the part of my property the batteries will be located which is now dry and more pleasant to be in. I'll include these side details in the final video. I know DIY batteries are popular here amongst the enthusiasts, but I wouldn't say they are common, including the likes of the Seplos kits. I have a second one ordered which I will be collecting when I drive to Germany later this month. I plan to have a third battery before the end of the year. With the cabinets built, I might even sell the seplos kits and replace them with bare cells, BMS and balancers. Someone will be blessed with a bargain. I may even offer to hook the battery up if they are local enough to me. I'll see how things go. I'm enjoying the ride, challenging as it has been for a newbie.

This is an easy fix, don't panic. You have a capacity warning because your cell capacity is 305Ah and your settings on the BMS are set to 290Ah. Once you change this in the BMS Studio, the warning will disappear. But I stress, it's not a warning you need to be concerned about. I haven't made a BMS Studio video yet, but if you need help, let me know. You will need to connect with a special RJ45 and change a couple of settings. Look at post #2 in this forum below. It was the info that moved me forward. Also check out post #11 for the parameters you should change. Read the whole thread and make sure you select the baud rate of 19200 when making the connection. This rate will also need to be changed on your inverter. If you have a solis inverter, my other video covers that. diysolarforum.com/threads/seplos-v3-bms-no-port-com-connection.85837/#post-1131983

Thank you

Please give me a link to that special rj45.thanks a lot!

@@banhvo4958 You need a USB to RS485 Converter for Modbus. Here is the one I used www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078X5H8H7?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details You can cut one end off any internet (LAN) cable and connect pins 1,2 and 5 to connection B, A and GND in that order. This will let you connect the battery to your computer, selecting PORT 5 and the correct baud rate when making the connection. What is pin 1 you might ask? Look at the back of the LAN cable (the bit with no tab) and you will see pin 1 is the left wire. Pin 1 is Orange & White. Pin 2 is Orange. Pin 5 is Blue and White. A successful connection will give you a red power light and a flashing RXD light. Change Parameter line 89 and 90 to 305Ah. Change Parameter line 91 to 100Ah. Change Parameter line 102 to 56V. These are the main settings I recall changing on mine. Disclaimer: This is what worked for me. Follow any instructions at your own risk.

Thank you Gary!

That was my intention. Happy to help buddy!

Hi. The trick with the balance cables is to look at the length. One set is longer than the other and the longer set of course will go to the set of cells furthest from the connections, which is the "B" set of cells, which are 9-16. Each wire has a label which also tells you where they need to go. All wires on the balance cable go to the positive terminals with the exception of the 2 extra wires which go to negative 1 and negative 9. So, yes, most wires connect to the positive terminals. The temperature sensors connect to the negative terminals, as does the Active Balancer negative power wire. Good Luck with the build

I got 2 times b9-b16 ;) haha and now I am waiting the seller ship me correct one

so it seems to be common that they are not taking care to send correct ones with the box

Thank you. Recently learned about this. Always a good reminder.

2 comments in the one video :) . Again, I appreciate the comment and feedback. Would you apply the same restriction to applying salt to the meat? Are like likes of Dr. Ken Berry not carnivores because they add salt to their meat? Granted, I've never seen a lion whip out a sachet of salt or pepper and sprinkle it over the gazelle before tucking in. Lions are the best known carnivores, but even they sometimes eat grass and plants to obtain certain minerals and fibrous material. They are still carnivores, right? This is true of all other carnivorous species I can think of, so the line is not so autistic as you suggest. In reality, I call it carnivore-plus (though someone suggested carnivore-ish on another channel). My diet is almost exclusively animal based and with an amount of chocolate on par with the non meat content of a cup of coffee. I eat 2 squares of 85% chocolate most days. I enjoy it and it helps me stay on track. Using the term carnivore is intentional, as it is the term which brought me the very content I digested while preparing for the diet. Many of the content producers were "carnivore", but drank tea/coffee, ate ice-cream, drank juice and many other variants around an otherwise core carnivore diet. I would be doing people no favours if I was dishonestly reporting on my journey, or the results. I am being completely up-front here and I would argue that this content helps a lot more people than you might think it hinders. I am mere days away from 4 months on this journey and I am going strong. I have no ailments anymore and I am still realising that I no longer have certain ailments that were just in the background...such as eye twitching every few days, it no longer happens. Even my back pain is reducing, which I did not expect to happen, because that is a result of nerve damage. I haven't felt the need to burst into a store and raid the chocolate aisle just yet.

@@GaryMeatsFood you look like you are doing great on carnivore- be careful that any indulgences are gluten free (even trace amounts) or you will never get the full benefit of our ancestral diet. coffee, chocolate and nuts (peanuts are legumes not nuts) are not going to damage too much in the short run and probably have pleasurable connotations that you can work on breaking to keep the pleasure and drop the trigger. Once your gut is 100% healthy you will look back on those little indulgences with a different perspective and you will know yourself how great you feel every day without any external stimulants. Once you arrive at great gut health (which you are moving towards) anything which disrupts it will be unappealing to you. It is a journey and you are well on your way - good luck with your channel which seems to draw a lot of trolls so you must be doing something right!

@@theghostofJamesUganda Thanks for your well considered comment. You are spot on with your observations. I have been getting results wholly unexpected and I feel great for it. I simply couldn’t return to my old diet. It’s not worth the pain and discomfort I had daily, half of which I wasn’t aware of. I honestly don’t know what my diet will look like in 3,4,6 months time. It could full carnivore or it could be meat and fruit. As long as I can be healthy, feel good, have consistent energy and be around the 90kg mark, I will be a happy man. I’ll keep posting monthly and hopefully it keeps a few souls motivated and informed. Thanks again.

@@GaryMeatsFood When you go "full carnivore" if you have some wild sockeye salmon just before bed you will wake up with a big smile if you know what I mean ;-)

Yeah, very true. It's all great experience and makes it a little more interesting for me.

An alcoholic can try to moderately drink alcohol but I don't think that will work out too well. In the same context, sugar addicts will find it very difficult to moderate their carb intake. If anyone proposes that eating the crappy Standard American Diet in moderation is healthy than they need to do more research. The SAD diet is full of sugar, seed oils, toxins, etc.

@@patrickh709 Thanks for the comment and I largely agree with you. The SAD, or the diet largely shared by many nations is full of sugar, seed oils and toxins. However, I do think it's possible to moderate if you set your mind and fix it. For example; some on the carnivore diet have a coffee each day, or a tea, or like myself...a piece of chocolate and can do just fine like that. A little flexibility can make it easier to stick to a rigid diet. For some, they wouldn't have the will power and probably won't last on a carnivore style diet anyway. It's about being honest with yourself and what you are willing and able to do long term.

My latest video was published on Wednesday. I’m sure your transition will be simple. Good luck with it.

I mostly buy them at LIDL. Sometimes I cut my own if I buy a chuck from the butcher.

Thanks. It has to be sustainable, so this is my way of doing it.

@@GaryMeatsFood amazing u know ur down 33lb since u started great achievement

@@johnparker1434 Yeah, 15kg, or 33lbs, or 2.36st. Feeling the difference.

Yes, they are. Nothing healthy about them. For me, it's about finding what works for me and while a chip shop sausage is not a healthy snack, or meal, it helps me stick to the big picture. I do think I will cut these unhealth items out at some stage. This month has become more about testing my body responses to crap foods in small quantities. I even had a coke which had been sitting in the refrigerator for a week. More on that in the next video.

Thankfully it has not been very difficult for me. I consider myself lucky that I haven't suffered some of the initial side effects, such as keto-flu, or constipation. It's been quite smooth overall.

Thanks. Most of the credit goes to the people who have taken the time to do this before me. The information out there has been so helpful and I am only happy to make a contribution.

Speaking strictly not as a Doctor, or nutritionist, I would suggest that if you are both hungry and still losing weight, you should firstly eat more meat and secondly, make sure there is nothing else afoot. While I am sure the weight loss is related to positive change, you should check with your GP/Doc to make sure everything else is OK. I would suggest that perhaps you may not be getting enough fat in your beef intake, but I don’t know what you are eating exactly. I eat ribeye because it is fatty and delicious. Cooked in butter and seasoned in salt only. You need the high fat content to tell your body you have plenty to feed from. Be sure you are getting no carbs or sugars and that the meat is not processed. Try this and see how you get on. I’d love to hear back from you in a week or so.

@@GaryMeatsFood Thank you.

Such as its been 2 months and i have lost 20lbs. Grease your chair as well.

That’s what Twitter/X is for buddy. This channel is commentary on my journey. Optional listening and maybe not your cup of tea. I’ll set up video shorts especially for you next time 😉 or put stats in the bottom so you won’t hear my chair squeak 😂

I wanted to wait a while before responding to this. I am happy to report that so far, I am not regretting the chocolate, but I do understand how it could easily result in the undoing of all the good work. I'll be sure to mention this in the next video.

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I would take the view that any food which causes you to feel like you are failing, or cheating is not worth eating. I’m comfortable with the chocolate, but I recognise I’m not enjoying it if I’m eating too frequently. I had 1 small piece today, but I am on holiday and it was that, or a German Waffle! I’m doing well on day 2 in Germany. Almost exclusively eating meat.

For sure. Get prepared and enjoy the ride.

​@GaryMeatsFood I'm sure you won't take my advice, because it seems like you're already too deep into the dogma...but...yu ALSO sound extremely intelligent so i will try......... "carnivore" diets are a nonsense fad being promoted by zealots, narcissists and grifters.........we saw the same pattern and phenomenon on social media with vegan, raw vegan, fruitarian, fasting, raw till 4, keto, paleo........... ALL of those fads were heavily and pretentious promited by "influencers and doctors"....selling books....making money.....seeking fame and attention ... Humans are omnivores. Plant foods have myriad benefits. Modern processed foods are the causes poor health. Not plants.

I did consider telescopic among other designs. For the complexity involved in the setup of a telescopic system and the lesser benefits, including the loss of pedestrian access without the hybrid design, I decided against telescopic.

@@GaryMeatsFood thanks for quick reply. Yes I agree 👍

I’ve been fortunate with having no negative side effects of the diet and because of risk and side effects, I’ve always been flat against diets. The carnivore lifestyle just made a lot of sense to me, but the body sometimes needs an adjustment period. The recommended time to really give it a chance is 3 months. Why do it? Because you choose to and because there was a good reason for you choosing to. Consider how you are eating and what you are eating. Remember you need electrolytes and I take vitamin C too every day. It’s been working well so far. Good luck.

That's great news. The weight loss is a nice bonus and is effortless for now.

I use both 😊

I’d be more concerned about the coffee than the cream. The answer I would have to say is “it depends”. It depends on your goals. Coffee is not animal based, but if you need coffee in order to keep you on the meat diet, then it’s not the worst. See how it goes for you and maybe try cut down on it. The lemon juice is probably no harm, but I suppose lots of small things add up to complicated. I use a lemon flavoured electrolyte tablet. Maybe this would be a better replacement for your water and real lemon squeeze. I used to do that too by the way. Good luck and keep going!

if you don't see any meaningful change, then why do it?

@@GladysMokgatleChange doesn’t always happen overnight. It can take years before you finally realise you are out of shape and in poor health. The frog in boiling water story comes to mind. Results should not be measured daily, or even weekly. Months and years is where life is at.

Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately my lower back pain is chronic and said to be permanent due to nerve damage resulting from a delay in surgery. However, your comment does give some home for the mid back problem I have had for most of my life now. I’ll definitely be trying one of those stews.

Some very positive results there. 60 pounds! Wow. If I were to lose 60 pounds, I would be back to my 18 year old weight. While I didn't start this for weight, I must admit I am enjoying losing a few pounds, because my clothes are starting to fit me better again.

I eat when hungry, which is usually two or three times daily. Sometimes more often in smaller amounts. My meals are as small as 2 eggs, or as large as 2 x 200g steaks. Of course meat is more filling. My advice is to be prepared before you start. Salt, electrolytes, good meats and consider any times you might find it challenging so you can plan ahead and work around. Eating at work, or on holiday/vacation for example could pose a challenge. I stop eating if it stops being delicious…..so not often during a meal 😊

@@GaryMeatsFood perfect thank u

o@@johnparker1434 I eat 1 to 2 lbs ground beef or about 6 eggs eat 2 times a day sometimes skip whole day

@@GaryMeatsFood no fibre. Stays in your body and rots away. We are herbivores. Like gorillas, 1% cancer in the wild. Plant-based vegans have 4% cancer. And meat eaters have cancer and high blood pressure and Alzheimer’s.... 51% death rate. Scientific fact. CZcams Pig Time-lapse. I don’t stink anymore ✅❤️⭕️💪😬👍.

@@GaryMeatsFood no fibre. Stays in your body and 🧟‍♂️rot🍖away. We are herbivores. Like gorillas, 1% cancer in the wild. Plant-based/✅egans have 4% cancer. And meat eaters have Cancer and high blood pressure and AlzheImer’s.... 51% death rate. Scientific fact. CZcams Pig Time-Iapse. I don’t stink anymore ✅❤️⭕️💪😬👍.

I'll be updating next weekend, but it's still going almost 4 weeks in.

Thanks. 2 weeks in and going strong. Started making my own beef burger patties this week. Delicious! Felt a little queasy today. I figured my electrolytes were low. I took a second electrolyte tab and ate a burger patty. Problem solved.

I saw that documentary a couple of years ago. I wanted to know what studies were relied upon to come to the conclusions shared in the video. The 800 studies quoted were largely made up of questionnaires. Out of the 800 studies, they used a total of 17 for their source material. They IGNORED the other 783 sources of information because it didn’t support the agenda. That documentary is probably the most misleading and dangerous vegan propaganda out there. We can always find a few idiots amongst a field of experts, so I wouldn’t take much heed from the contributors. Seems half of them were only interested in selling a few more of their poisonous books.

That is exactly what I am thinking. It’s why I purchased the microwave safe lunch box mentioned in the investment section.

Thanks, I've seen a couple of their videos already. I've just uploaded my day 10 progress video too. I made my own sausages today :)

A worthy New Year’s resolution. Thanks for sharing about your list.

Thanks man. Monthly minimum uploads to keep myself straight. No negative effects aside from inconveniencing myself a little.