I have a 300 Ah system. Battleborn batteries, Victron Multiplus Compact 12/2000/80 120V, using an EXPLORISTlife wiring diagram. I have run a full load test by running a 1200 hot air gun continuously until the Multiplus inverter shuts down (this is after full Shore Power charge).
The good news is I am getting what I should expect from the battery bank. 170 minutes at 1245 Watts = 293 Amp Hours.
The bad news is that the BMV-712 SOC went to zero 23 minutes into this test.
I ran this test at Battleborn's recommendation because I was seeing this odd behavior from the BMV.
The idea of the test was to determine which was correct? The BMV or the actual output of the system. So the test confirms the system is working and the BMV is way off. I am using Battleborn recommended BMV settings
Battery capacity 300aH
Charged voltage 14.2v
Discharge floor 0%
Tail current 4%
Charged detection time 3m
Peukert Exponent 1.05
Charge efficiency factor 99%
Current Threshold 0.10A
Time to go Averaging period 3M
Battleborn suggested replacing the SHUNT PC Board. I did, and I am still getting the same behavior.
Any ideas? Could the BMV-712 unit be bad? SOC is a calculation. Maybe the Calculator is not functioning correctly. I have read many posts on SOC errors and accuracy. I know the BMV reported value is not perfect, but this is so far off it is useless.
Help? Ideas to try for further diagnosing would be appreciated.
Thanks!
John
Wiring diagram below (third battery not shown).