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Why would my generator all of a sudden not charge my battery

The generator auto starts when the battery reaches 21% but does not charge the battery

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Alexandra avatar image Alexandra ♦ commented ·
@Hannes Swart

Does the inverter accept the incoming power from the generator and connect to it?

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Bill answered ·

When my genny stops charging (or powering anything) I first check the circuit breaker on the generator. It's only tripped once on my genny in 5 years now. But it had me scratching my head for a bit. -Bill

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The circuit breaker is fine, i have to reboot the colour display and switch the inverters off and on for it to start charging..
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@Hannes Swart

There's some general stuff here.. https://www.victronenergy.com/live/multiplus_faq

That's if you have a Muliplus or Quattro. But you give no information to work with..

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Hannes Swart avatar image Hannes Swart commented ·

I have the Quattro and this is the error message received

VE.Bus Error 10: System time synchronisation problem occurred

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JohnC avatar image JohnC ♦ Hannes Swart commented ·

@Hannes Swart

https://www.victronenergy.com/live/ve.bus:ve.bus_error_codes

Probably from mucking about with restarts. Unlikely anything to do with a genset.

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