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When I turn on VE.Smart Networking, my bluesolar device (it has a VE.Direct Bluetooth Smart dongle Rev.2 connected to it) immediately increases the watts and amperes to about twice what the panels actually give. I can verify this because I have BMW-712 Smart in my system. When I leave Smart Networking, everything is okay again. Why is that?
It looks like this when smart networking is turned of.
And like this when I have it turned on.
What happens when you only remove the BMV from the smart network? Does it also drop bak in that case?
Are you sure that the only connection to the battery is through the BMV? The weird thing is indeed that the MPPT reporting more current but the BMV is not registering it.
Can you post some more information, like screen shots of the Product info pages of both the MPPT and the BMV (so the firmware version are visible), perhaps settings like battery type and charge voltages and so on?
Kind regards,
Thiemo van Engelen
And is there any other load connected? Because in the case without networking, the BMV is registering 6.67A, but the MPPT is producing 9.7A towards the battery. So either there is a load taking 3A, or there is a second path into the battery that is not going through the shunt of the BMV (for example through chassis, grounding, etc).
Kind regards,
Thiemo van Engelen
Please I need an answer. Planning on adding another MPPT controller so I need Smart Networking to work.
