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Lithium battery itself works but the associated App for monitoring SOC, voltage etc. doesn’t work. The only way of knowing battery status is via the vague indication given by the Sargent readout. Emails and multiple calls to LiFOS have been ignored - very poor customer service for a product...

depends if it can charge to 14.6v and if it has a lithium profile. post some pics of the EHU charger . . . like @Spaghetti said above the Sargent and other camper power units are just 12v power supplies, i dont know if they can charge a AGM or Lithium properly.

Hi Ian, That is exactly the reason I have a Lithium battery in my garage and not in my van! If it is a Sargent EC155, I wouldn't use that at all on Lithium. That unit will not be good for the battery. My son has one in his camper and it is useless. All it does is pump out the 15A or 20A to the...

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Hi Ian, Amateur here. Will try and help until a pro comes along.... Do you have any monitoring? Like a Victron BMV712? Most Lithium batteries will not accept charge below around 5 degrees. Is the BMS built into the battery? If so it could have stopped charge being allowed. What is the Sargent...

Hi Dean, When on hook up the leisure battery is charged via the Sargent unit. I made a mistake above - on hook up I plug in to the 240V socket and then straight to the LiFOS via a charger under the seat. This latter should allow for 100% charging I think whereas via the Sargent it’s only 80%...

Explain how that won't work Lee as I've already killed the SLA leisure battery that came with my camper and will no doubt cook the replacement too unless told with a big stick exactly which b2b charger I should be using and how to incorporate that with the Sargent's built in hook up battery...

Hello. i'm back from my first 4 night off grid camp (blue dot festival). I have two solar panels into a C-Tek 250. My van is a T6. I have a small fridge (Indel-B), all LED lighting and also recharged devices, ran a fan for about 1 hour, made about 16 brews with my electric brew maker. My...

cool, pictures would be good to see. I’ve only be sorting out and taking the plunge and buying at moment! I’m i correct in thinking you also have charger on EHU side of things for lithium battery or will existing setup do the job? Cheers Ian

Put a lithium battery in the mix with a decent BMS & it’ll protect itself from over discharge. No external gubbins necessary.

I recommended a CTEK in that thread as the original install had already been fitted with a CTEK to better charge the AGM battery it was just an old model that didn't have lithium capabilities. So a straight swap made sense as all the cables and fuses were the same. You'll need to disable the...

The Sargent isn't a battery charger, it's just a power supply. You can get yourself a proper smart charger with lithium profile to use with EHU etc

@Dellmassive thank you for your time & help. Yes I uninstalled then re installed the app to no avail. I’ve had problems with the LiFOS app before and to be honest my Sargent unit has always been unpredictable - it has always let out random series of beeps (will post vid - edit, won’t let me) -...

Hi, my CTEK 250sa was installed just before the lithium compatible CTEK was released - over 2 years ago. As far as I’m aware it works fine but is only capable of charging the battery to 80% as opposed to the se which will charge to 100%. The installer did make sure there was a direct charging...

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Well.... I don't wanna say... I told.you so.... But John got caught out....! FIT A DC-DC CHARGER . . . . DONT FIT A VSR !!!!! DONT USE A SARGENT AS A BATTERY CHARGER ON EHU, GET A PROPER LITHIUM CHARGER.!!! If John would have fitted a dc-dc from day one with a Lithium profile and used a EHU...

Well, as me grandad used to say “ee lad, tha can’t educate pork”

Cheers guys - I have the non-lithium profile CTEK (the D250se came out just after my conversion had been completed). I don’t have a voltmeter - the LiFOS App has never worked unfortunately but I’ve got a manual one. I’ve no idea what charge program the CTEK is set to - will take a look and see...

It is for the leisure battery, and I did consider a LiFePO4, but it wouldn't be just a straight swap from Lead/Acid to Lithium, the Ablemail would have to be sent back to the manufacturers to be re-programmed to a Lithium charging profile, I don't think that my Sargent PMS is suitable either, it...

yeh, kinda . . . off EHU anyway. - its an easy fix though, just install a Victron 240v charger (or other mains charger with a lithium profile) and ditch the charge wire from the Sargent thing. what about DC_DC when your driving? - what have you got there? solar?