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Fisher Fury Fueltank Fun

(Update 04/02/24 Combing everything into one post as it wsa getting tedious) Fitting the new fuel tank to the Fury is the gift that keeps on giving. The original tank had both mounting holes and a pipe on the top to connect the fuel hose to. The new larger tank has no mounting holes. I made some brackets to the profile of the new tank and drilled mounting holes using the top pipe centre as a reference point.

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Charging The Car

Some notes as I go along. We have A Renault Zoe A Growatt hybrid solar/battery system An OpenEVSE charger HomeAssistant instance An MQTT broker The challenge is to get all of those talking together so that when the growatt battery is full and the sun is shining, any excess solar goes into the car rather than the grid. It’s a little confusing as OpenEVSE seems to push OpenEnergyMonitor as the way to do all of this.

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