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Change priority of MPPT disabling when excess solar?

Hi

My setup has 1 low voltage mppt 150/70 and second MultiRS 6000 Dual tracker

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When there is an excess solar - system disables MultiRS trackers, but I'd prefer MPPT 150/70 to be disabled first

Is there any way to change order in alghorytm?

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Daniël Roux avatar image Daniël Roux commented ·

Purely out of curiosity - why do you want to adjust this behaviour?

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andrii-podanenko avatar image andrii-podanenko Daniël Roux commented ·
efficiency of low voltage array is slightly lower, more loss in cables via heating, while MultiRS arrays are on house facade - less heat from sun
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@Andrii Podanenko

Try setting the target Voltage(s) on the 150/70 very slightly lower than the RS. 0.1V is plenty usually, but you may be able to get away with much less. Nice to have DVCC enabled, so they both see the same V on the battery.

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MultiRS has 0.2V higher voltages. Doesn't work
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JohnC avatar image JohnC ♦ andrii-podanenko commented ·
@Andrii Podanenko

It should work if both chargers are in the same State (ie Absorb or Float), If the RS has dropped to Float earlier then it will restrict itself. Maybe that's your issue..

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andrii-podanenko avatar image andrii-podanenko JohnC ♦ commented ·
I have DVCC enabled, so they both getting to Float at the same time

Also, as I responded above - even with higher by 0.2V it doesn't work - MPPT stays, MultiRS - no

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JohnC avatar image JohnC ♦ andrii-podanenko commented ·
@Andrii Podanenko

DVCC doesn't directly control Float status, it just helps with system-wide data. You need to check the status yourself.

In your first pic the RS is throttling at 54.43V, yet the 150/70 is not. It must be aiming for a higher target than that..

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Hi @Andrii Podanenko

As there is no direct user control about this, maybe it's time to take a more programmatically approach.

dbus-systemcalc-py/delegates/dvcc.py is the script to "mess with".

There is a function named _distribute_current() that later calls for distribute() and _balance_chargers() functions.

Maybe you can modify to do whatever you want there....

Alex

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andrii-podanenko avatar image andrii-podanenko commented ·
Could you point me to the repo itself, please? @Alex Pescaru
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Hi @Andrii Podanenko

Did you managed to solve it?

If yes, how?

Thanks,

Alex

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andrii-podanenko avatar image andrii-podanenko commented ·
No, I didn't

Voltage difference doesn't work

I'm assuming before MultiRS is fully supported in VRM - this is a tough task to debug and resolve

I can try do this via NodeRED, to disable MPPT when SOC in some condition, but I'm afraid of breaking underlying logic of Victron

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