20201229 rC3 Meetup
EventGrid // DC MicroGrid Meetup Day 3
- Martin: Libre Solar
- DC Grid for Rural electrification
-> today: tiny home systems, >=50W, usually proprietary -> Interconnect those systems?
- Test run in UK, w/ 4 participants
- Project planned in Ruanda
- Some of the developments are supposed to go back into Libre Solar
- Solar charger 12V/24V, grid 48V
- Working on new version of the 20A controller, potentially available ready built then. ETA maybe Jan/Feb 2021 - Martin will post costs in Telegram channel if anyone would like to order one. The more orders, the cheaper it will be, although there is no minimum order.
Plans for a bigger charge controller (120V input) for wind generators (https://windempowerment.com/) -> Send a message to Martin if you want to be involved
- Has some 400WH second-hand e-scooter batteries he wants to use but has not had time yet.
hk: modular battery based on 18650s in euroboxes, with DC-DC charge controllers for each box. Has a lot of 18650 batteries for use in a battery system.
DC-DC usually one low-voltage side, one high-voltage side, so it's easer to have a 48V grid with a 24V battery. Adapting a 48V battery to a 48V grid is much harder.
DC-DC-Converter by Zoe and Elen https://fully.automated.ee/raccoon.html https://twitter.com/tachiniererin/status/1343955837258248192
Festival Grid - Power metering using tasmota-compatible smart home devices. Might be also possible for 48VDC
Old AltPwr Website
- http://altpwr-archive.tiefpunkt.com/user-information/
- https://github.com/tiefpunkt/altpwr.net-archive
Monthly/bimonthly meetings to prep for MCH
- Make a list of stuff people can bring
- tiefpunkt will set something up and post it in the telegram group
Open source DC-DC converter for "small" power sources
Portable power-mesh nodes
- based on hk's battery modules
- Goal Zero Yeti do some "meshing" which is more a daisy chaining, but isn't very efficient. The systems do communication between each other, probably via the charging cable.
Jeremail: Has a small setup with multiple dc-dc-converters Could e-bike batteries be used so that an entirely new battery system does not need to be created and the focus can be on connectivity and DC-DC converters/chargers etc? Bought a few hundred bosch lawnmower 9s2p battery packs, and have no BMS!
ecki: done own BMS, started PWM DC-DC Controller, using same TI chip as libre.solar, slightly smaller in terms of power.
