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Pylontech stays at 91% charge

I have seen a similar issue in another thread 6 month ago but without a clear reason/solution. Perhaps now the issue is more known and already solved

I installed 5 days ago an off-grid system composed by 2 x pylontech US5000, smartsolar 250/85, cerbo gx, multiplus II 48/5000/70-50 and a 3000w solar grid prviding 150V and 25A.

When i connected batteries to the off-grid system they were at 49% charge and they reached 100% in few hours.

2 days later theymoved down to 89% as it was a raining day and solar panels did not produce power.

After that the batteries stay at 91% charge. SmsrtSolar only produce the energy required to feed the load. Load is quite low as I was testing system before connecting high loads.

Firmware versions in smartsolar, charger and multiplus are the latest one.

Why does the charge percentage stay at 91% if load is very low and there is enough PV power to increase batteries charge?

DVCC is enabled, charge current limit has not been reached and there is not voltage oberload alarms.

Thanks

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Thomas answered ·

Hi Josep,

try to increase the "Maximum charge voltage" in the DVCC Menu. Normaly the voltage is limited by the Pylontech via CAN-BMS and as you can see in the Parameters-Menu the BMS tells the GX the maximum is 53.2 V.

If the value in the DVCC-Menu is lower then that value will be used as the maximum voltage.

Best regards

Thomas

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nickdb avatar image nickdb ♦♦ commented ·

Max charge voltage is only meant for dealing with cell imbalances on new/recently added batteries. It is not supported to use it on an ongoing basis.

This is also documented in the recently updated DVCC guide:

https://www.victronenergy.com/media/pg/Cerbo_GX/en/dvcc---distributed-voltage-and-current-control.html

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Warwick Bruce Chapman avatar image Warwick Bruce Chapman commented ·

This is not useful for Pylontech.

The DVCC code contains "quirks" for a few of the batteries (incl. LG, BYD, Pylontech). The quirk for Pylontech applies a hard upper limit of 52.4V no matter what the setting in this menu is.

The code documentation shares the following:

Quirk for Pylontech. Make a bit of room at the top. Pylontech says that at 51.8V the battery is 95% full, and that balancing starts at 90%.

53.2V is normally considered 100% full, and 54V raises an alarm. By running the battery at 52.4V it will be 99%-100% full, balancing should be active, and we should avoid high voltage alarms.

Identify 24-V batteries by the lower charge voltage, and do the same
thing with an 8-to-15 cell ratio, +-3.48V per cell.

Use 3.48V per cell plus a little, 52.4V for 48V batteries.
Use 3.46V per cell plus a little, 27.8V for 24V batteries testing shows that's 100% SOC.
That leaves 1.6V margin for 48V batteries and 1.0V for 24V.

See https://github.com/victronenergy/venus/issues/536

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