I'm looking for experience around controlling Victron inverters over CANBUS. I was told by Orion that their Jr BMS could shut down discharge to protect my battery over CAN, but would likely need some sort of gateway.
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I'm looking for experience around controlling Victron inverters over CANBUS. I was told by Orion that their Jr BMS could shut down discharge to protect my battery over CAN, but would likely need some sort of gateway.
You would need a gateway to interface CAN devices, one of the GX devices - CCGX, VenusGX, Cerbo GX as examples.
However, the Orion BMS' are not compatible over CANBUS.
You would need to use the digital output from the OrionJr to disable discharging of the Inverter, maybe with signal inversion (I don't know very much about Orion products). You will not need a GX gateway to do this.
The Orion *is* compatible and is successfully controlling my quattro setup. https://www.orionbms.com/downloads/misc/victron_integration.pdf
Phoenix Inverter Smart product page
Victron VE.Bus BMS product page
Victron 3rd party BMS compatibility page
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