With all the loadshedding right now in South Africa right now, I have set my batteries to "Optimized with Battery Life" at a 100% SoC. Grid feed-in is disabled with grid setpoint of 50W and DVCC enabled using ESS.
I have a MultiPlus 5000 with 12 lead carbon batteries (replacing an older AGM bank), a single MPPT controller, CCGX, a BMV 702 and a ET112 grid meter.
What I see is that if the battery SoC is below the SoC setpoint, only the battery is charged from the PV array, while loads are powered from the grid. The PV output is throttled to whatever the battery needs, and no higher.
If I then lower the target SoC to below the current SoC, the PV array powers both the loads and the battery.
These two images were taken very close together, to eliminate any shading issues.
The problem that I have is that this severely limits the production in the morning, until the batteries have had a chance to charge, lowering my overall production for the day. Is there a way to get my PV array to also power loads at the same time it charges the battery? It might be an incorrect setting somewhere.