Going solar

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there is nothing in the new Redarcs Lithium charging profile that would concern me.

Can you point me to where Redarc spell out what their charging profile actually is please?

Still early days for my 100a/h LifePo4 at 3 years, but she is still as good as the day I bought it, time will tell I guess. I don't know of any charger that has individual cell monitoring. My battery has it's own BMS attached for cell monitoring and I also use a backup LV/HV shut-off, I also use a Victron BMV-702 to give me an idea of whats going on with the battery, this has an option for temp monitoring, but I've never felt the need to be bothered with it. There is a lot of scare mongering out there regarding LifePo4, that's why I decided to investigate it myself.

I agree that there has been a great deal of scaremongering, unnecessarily so. I haven’t gone to LiFePo4 yet, but hold no qualms about doing so when my current batteries have served their time.
Don’t know what BMS you are using or how you have your LV/HV shut off set, but you do have them. Redarc appear (to me) to be marketing their charger as being for lithium charging without mentioning any BMS or other battery protection. As I understand it pretty much any ‘dumb’ charger could be used to do the actual charging provided there was a BMS & HV/LV disconnect, settable by the user? The Victron monitor is certainly popular, especially because of Victron’s willingness to be open about their product’s connectivity. Another friend is reasonably advanced in his efforts to use Arduino technology in conjunction with the Victron to manage his lithiums.

Re. Temperature monitoring - can’t see any real need for that either, but I am very much in favour of temperature compensated charging at least for lead acid’s. I believe it to be important for maximising battery lifespan