Battery Hookup
Used high-voltage battery stack control enclosure
Regular price
$200.00
What it actually is
The two silver modules inside are:
- BMS Stack Controller — the brains. It talks to cell interface modules, calculates SOC/SOH, handles faults, and talks to the outside world.
- BMS Power Interface — handles high-current contactors, current shunt measurement, stack voltage, and auxiliary power distribution.
Together they form a single-stack high-voltage BMS (G4 generation, typically rated up to 1250 V DC). The rest of the box is the power hardware that the BMS controls.
Front-panel connections
- B+ / B– — Battery stack positive and negative.
- P+ / P– — DC bus / pack output side (after the contactors).
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COM (three circular connectors) — Custom-wired communication and control ports. The handwritten labels (“OUT 1”, “HMI 2”, “#3 33A”) are integrator markings. These usually carry a mix of:
- Ethernet / Modbus TCP
- RS-485 / Modbus RTU
- CAN
- GPIO / interlock / HMI signals
What’s inside (from the photos)
- Gigavac high-voltage DC contactors (main + pre-charge)
- High-current fuse (looks like a 350 A class fuse)
- Current shunt
- Isolated TOBSUN DC-DC converters (auxiliary 24 V power for the BMS and contactors)
- Wiring for Link Bus (goes out to separate Cell Interface modules that sit on the actual battery modules)
The Cell Interface boards themselves are not in this box — they live on the battery modules and daisy-chain back to the Stack Controller via the Link Bus.
Communications capabilities
The Stack Controller supports:
- Modbus TCP over Ethernet (primary interface + web-based Operator Interface)
- Modbus RTU over isolated RS-485
- Isolated CAN 2.0
- USB (configuration / firmware)
- Configurable GPIO
This is the same comms stack used in commercial utility-scale and C&I energy storage systems. It speaks SunSpec / MESA models so inverters and site controllers can talk to it directly.
Typical use
This style of enclosure is common in:
- Used / surplus commercial battery energy storage systems (BESS)
- Custom high-voltage Li-ion or LiFePO4 stacks
- Second-life EV battery packs that were converted into stationary storage