DIY ESS - Crimping of the 10mm2 cable for the charger side

Easter monday crimping & soldering fun

This 10mm² cable will link the chargers and the battery pack negative terminals, through this 6mm bolt 

I added some heat shrink this time

The small lugs are soldered on each charger leads, 8mm for positive ones, 6mm for negative ones 

8mm ones will all go to the Tyco Kilovac EV200A1ANA (the new one with home made economizer) and the 6mm ones will go the the bolt, connecting to the negative battery pack terminal

Oups, under 0 ....

Wattson & Wattson Silver

Last Friday, after unboxing and synchronising the Wattson Silver, I took it downstairs to compare its display with the original Wattson:

Well, they display exactly the same figures, exept that the Wattson Silver would not display Net Usage (Usage - Generation), so I had to plug it into my netbook and set it up in Holmes, Wattson's software

After that, it was displaying negative values too, but the backlighting was not green, but yellow, which corresponds to an older version of Wattson - They changed this yellow color to green later on

Same figures, that is normal, they get the readings from the same transmitter

Green & Yellow for generation; Here they are displaying different figures, because they did not get the signal at the same time I guess

Both Blue, for low usage