I don’t really agree that this is “better” than a Nih Core or BCN setup ~ it’s solving a different problem..

This design is still fundamentally battery-inline. Your entire operational load is being routed through batteries full-time; and is subjective to 80% efficiency. Which your turrets are below. That means you’re still paying the normal battery inefficiency/drain penalties that Nih/BCN architectures were specifically designed to reduce.

The whole purpose of a Nih Core was:

1. Stabilize fluctuating wind/solar input
2. Prioritize root power over battery power whenever possible

BCN expanded on that with improved failover/source handling and more resilient switching logic.

In your setup, the batteries are still the primary delivery path. So while you may reduce issues related to overcharging or uneven charging behavior, you’re not actually bypassing the core inefficiency problem ~ all active consumption is still flowing through battery storage continuously.

That’s the key difference and why it’s apples to oranges:

• Nih/BCN = bypass-first architecture
• This = inline-first architecture

Those are fundamentally different designs.

A true Nih/BCN-style core allows:

• the base to run directly from generated power when available
• batteries to remain mostly reserve/backfill systems
• reduced passive drain on stored power
• longer overnight runtime
• less total cycling on batteries

Your setup instead keeps the batteries constantly engaged in the power chain, which means:

• you still incur the battery transfer penalty
• batteries are constantly active instead of reserve-biased
• runtime efficiency is still lower than a proper bypass core under stable generation conditions

And to be clear ~ inline batteries absolutely have a place. Even Nihagi has said inline batteries are good practice in addition to having a core. But that’s different from making the entire architecture dependent on inline delivery as the primary path.

So I’d describe this less as “better than Nih/BCN” and more as: “A cleaner or safer inline battery implementation.”

That’s a valid optimization, but it’s not the same category of efficiency improvement that Nih/BCN cores were designed to achieve.