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I have a Victron SmartShunt I use with 2 100AHr Lithium batteries. I've gone through the manual and configured it and have used it for a few weeks. It seems to work, more or less. But sometimes I don't believe what it is telling me. See below for today's charge history. It had dropped to 50% over a few cloudy days, and was charging up this morning. Then around noon, it shot up to 100% in a few minutes. Any idea what could be going on here?
Here are my settings.
I went through the manual and attempted to set these correctly for my batteries, which are LiFePo4 from Ampere Time (now Lithium Time).
Ah... The "Charged Voltage" parameter is set to 13.2. Which I got from Page 10 of the manual. But I didn't see the text there that says that that table is for Lead Acid batteries! The jump was right when the battery voltage reached that value, as per the graph below.
So the question is, what is an appropriate "Charged Voltage" for a LiFePo4 battery?
I've put it at 14.5V for now. I'll try to sync it soon and see how things work.
Thanks. I was hoping for recommendations on the value!
