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    EG4 LifePower4 BMS Reports Designed Capacity Wrong!!!

    Hey @marionw, I have not been able to make progress thus far with EG4, they seem to think i should be able to POST or write to the Capacity variable in the BMS but so far the BMS does not respond to these POST attempts. I have multiple versions of the BMS software that all seem to communicate...
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    EG4 LifePower4 BMS Reports Designed Capacity Wrong!!!

    OK, this is a follow up reply. I was able to download the BMS Tools V2.2.1 after installing google drive for windows desktop to I guess circumvent the virus check. Using this version of BMS tools results in the same failure to change the value. GET results in a reported 100 Ah designed...
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    EG4 LifePower4 BMS Reports Designed Capacity Wrong!!!

    Thank you for the suggestion, I am going to try the steps the EG4_jared is suggesting before trying this and see where that gets me first. I will keep people updated.
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    EG4 LifePower4 BMS Reports Designed Capacity Wrong!!!

    Hi Jared, Thank you for the assistance. Note google drive would not allow the download of the shared file reporting that it is detecting a virus. Is there some other way that it could be shared? or maybe zip it and change the file extension to trick it into that mode where it cant scan it...
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    EG4 LifePower4 BMS Reports Designed Capacity Wrong!!!

    Buyers beware! I have 3 EG4 LifePower4 12v 400 Ah batteries. The two oldest are about 14 months old and their BMS reports in the EG4 BMSTools app (and everywhere else) that the designed capacity of the battery is 100 Ah and not the correct 400 Ah. This is despite the fact that they correctly...
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    Decoding EG4 Lifepower4 BMS data

    I have 1x EG4-LL 12v 400Ah VERSION 1 batteries and 1x EG4-LL 12V 400 Ah VERSION 2 battery that is used as the RS485 master to the other three and allows for connectivity to my Victron Cerbo GX to communicate battery stats. The thing is..... i would like to monitor and data log the health of the...
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