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Battery over heating?

I am on a sailboat in the Caribbean. This week I had 4x 200ah Victron lithium batteries installed professionally with a bms, bmv712, battery protect, mppt 100 solar chargers x 3. Everything seems to work well except the temperature on one of them was 52C and the others were in the high 40s. Is this normal?

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tozz answered ·

If this is normal depends.. If there is a lot of active equipment running in a confined space, perhaps heated by the sun? Then it could be normal.

Nevertheless 52 degrees is uncomfortably hot for li-ion batteries. Ideal is somewhere between 20 and 25 C


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The temperature offset was at 6C on the batteries (I think the installer put them there) and I now have it at 0C. The temperature of one of the batteries goes quickly from around 40C to 48C (the other 3 are within 6C lower) during the absorption phase at 100% soc. Then, after 2 hours, the float stage kicks in and the temp quickly drops back down to the thirties. Victron says the charge temp safe parameters are between 5C-50C so 48C is still “safe” but seemingly excessively high.

Is this a problem?
What can I do to change it?

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kevgermany answered ·

If the batteries are all in the same place/compartment and equally cooled, wired to share the load, you may have a faulty temp sensor. Installer should test.

Guessing the plus 6 setting was to trigger load reduction early and keep temps down/help battery life.

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