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Possible for Cerbo GX to show (edit: on Touch 50) incoming power without Quattro or Multi installed?

I do not have any Victron devices inline with incoming shore power, is it possible to add a Victron AC Current sensor to feed the Cerbo incoming current data to display on the GX Touch 50?

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squarej answered ·

Thanks for the advice, i will give it a shot.

Jason


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Daniël Boekel (Victron Energy Staff) answered ·

Hi @SquareJ

Without a Victron Inverter/Charger, and only an energy meter (set to grid) connected, you won't see AC input displayed on the 'home screen' of the GX device.

You can see the numbers in the device list, and on VRM it will be logged as 'grid' power.

I'll include some screenshots of a system I've installed like this, to measure power use of a factory.


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squarej avatar image squarej commented ·

I should have been more specific in my question, yes, i would like the AC numbers to be visible on the Touch 50 display. Is a Quattro or Multi the only way to make this info display?

Thanks


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Daniël Boekel (Victron Energy Staff) avatar image Daniël Boekel (Victron Energy Staff) ♦♦ squarej commented ·

Hi @SquareJ

The answer I gave is for any GX device, if it has a display or not. If it doesn't have a display, you have the same info on the 'remote console'.

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Jimmy Bergetun avatar image Jimmy Bergetun Daniël Boekel (Victron Energy Staff) ♦♦ commented ·

So I won’t get shore power output on my the victron touch screen if I add a et112 (energy meter) to my system? I only have bmv712, cerbo gi, victron hd touch and a small Phoenix 375va inverter ?

Why wouldn’t shore power usage be shown on the victron screen in this case ?

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yuwire avatar image yuwire Daniël Boekel (Victron Energy Staff) ♦♦ commented ·

@Daniël Boekel (Victron Energy Staff) Ok, thank you for the clarification. I assume that the home screen QML files could be modified to show that info in that box?

https://community.victronenergy.com/articles/12246/getting-started-with-the-new-venus-html5-interface.html

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