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Frequency Shift staying high all Night

Hi, I have an installation with an 8kw Quattro and a 3kw Fronius AC coupled. 30kw of BYD Premium LVL. Also has 5kw solar on MPPT.

The Quattro shifts the frequency as expected when the battery is full, but doesn't drop it back to 50htz when the sun goes down. In some cases it drops it back at 2 or 3 am, and in the case of the attached PDF, it held it up until 6.50am the next day. Note the battery is down to 83%SOC. Freq graphs.pdf

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Guy Stewart (Victron Community Manager) answered ·

Hi @Lawrence,

This behaviour is described here - https://www.victronenergy.com/live/assistants:pv-inverter-support#q1_-_the_system_is_locked_to_53_hz_and_does_not_resume

Please check that the Multi is correctly configured for lithium batteries and the absorption/float voltage.

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Lawrence avatar image Lawrence commented ·

Hi @Guy Stewart (Victron Community Manager)

Its not locking out at 53hz, its sitting at 52.72.

And i did read that and check all my settings. VE config settings.pdf

When the sun goes down with only 200w load the battery voltage is sitting at 53.1 on both the Battery monitor (BYD via CAN) and the VE Bus

I have a 3kw diversion load on AC2 out running off assistants. Ive noticed that once the Quattro lifts the frequency, it does it in one jump from 50 to 52.7, once up, it stays up the rest of the day, even with the 3kw diversion on and only 1500w coming from the MPPT

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Guy Stewart (Victron Community Manager) avatar image Guy Stewart (Victron Community Manager) ♦♦ Lawrence commented ·

I might have to pass this one up to the chain, but before I can. The first thing they will ask is can you please confirm firmware version on the Quattros and the Assistant (in VE.Configure) to make sure that they are current latest release?

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Lawrence avatar image Lawrence Guy Stewart (Victron Community Manager) ♦♦ commented ·

Chip number in the Quattro is 2655430 and i updated it to 433 b4 it was installed. Not sure how to find if the assistants are up to date, but every time i open VE Configure and it asks to up date i always do.

The CCGX and the MPPT are both up to date as well. The BYD is the only thing that is not up to date as it was a last minute substitute. The FredomWon that we sold with the job was stuck at the port in South Africa. As we never intended to use the BYD, we don't have a spare ethernet port, although if needed i can put a long range wifi on the CCGX and use its internet connection for the BYD

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Lawrence avatar image Lawrence Guy Stewart (Victron Community Manager) ♦♦ commented ·

Hi Guy, Any updates on this? Up until now this issue hasn't affected performance of the system as the frequency has always returned to 50 hz by the time the sun comes up the next day. I've noticed three times in the last couple of weeks that the frequency has stayed high into the next day so it now is affecting performance as the battery never made it back to 100% the first day it happened.

We ran a few tests to see if we could identify where the issues was. Firstly we turned the Canbus off, just to see if the battery was holding the frequency high, no change

We then reduced the MPPT amps to 5 as there is a large DC component, no change there either.

We also reduced the PV size in the PV Inverter Assistant, that didn't change it either.

My distributor (Rod from Taspac) has suggested replacing the Quarto but i don't want to go down that track unless we are certain it will fix the issue.

Frequency Shift 3.pdf

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