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Multiplus Compact 24/200 - Do I need to setup an assitant?


Hello,

I have recently setup a MultiPlus Compact 24/2000, 100/50 Solar charge controller and RaspberryPi Venus.

Battery capacity is about 11KWH (24volt Tesla).

1300 Watts of solar.

Load power consumption 800 watts.


Here's my logic,

Primarily use solar to run the system.

If solar is not available or cloudy use battery,

If battery gets low use solar to charge battery (if available) or use grid power to charge battery.

I have been running the system during the day just fine by manually turning on the inverter and usually there is plenty of solar to run both the load and slow charge the batteries.

Would an assistant in the Multiplus be able to achieve this and if so which one?


thank you for your time.

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Yes:

ESS assistant or ignore AC-in assistant for the functions you want.

And depending on the type of BMS you use you might need an assistant for that (the ESS assistant also provides BMS option). an CANbus BMS goes through the Venus device.

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I have setup the assistant Self Consumption Hub-2 v3 with the settings matching my setup, one thing i don't get is that the battery is currently charged to 24.6 volts (max setting) but the SOC only shows 10%, shouldn't this be 100%?

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Here's the assistant i configured.

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boekel avatar image boekel ♦ aserio commented ·

if you have a Venus device (the raspberry pi in your case) I'd be tempted to use the ESS assistant, but I don't know the details of your installation and if you're allowed to feed back into the grid.

What BMS are you using?

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I have read the ESS documentation so many times I am losing sleep trying to understand it. I didn't expect this to be so difficult for me. Maybe i underestimated my idea to prioritize solar... I didn't think my setup was this unusual.


As far as the BMS, I stated before that I am waiting for the Batrium WatchMonPlus to be released. I have also reached out to the "SimpBMS" developer (Joe) and will be notified when more are available.



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SimpBMS developer is Tom de Bree, he has them in stock again just now.

https://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198263

Please: do -not- use a Battery Protect between battery and inverter, this is only for DC-loads (if you'd have them)

You can use a Breaker with a trip-unit to let the BMS disconnect the battery when under / over voltage events happen, this would be a situation where one of the components doesn't listen to the BMS and shouldn't happen normally.

I asked you to read the ESS documentation so you'd learn about it..and conclude that you don't need it (yes I can be mean sometimes). you only need ignore AC-in and BMS assistants.

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