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I've accidentally found an answer to my question, it seems. I was looking for an unrelated thing, a way to enable or disable the streetlight feature of the solar charge controller through VRM and I found that VRM two-way communication needs to be enabled for this. Once it is, the devices...

The solar panel array will be land mounted and the line from it to the SCC input will be in a conduit and buried. The line from the SCC output to the battery is just wall mounted, the SCC and the batteries are in the same spot in the shed.

You're right, I misinterpreted some of the earlier replies. Yeah, I think this is ultimately why I'll wait for the Victron wall charger to come before I do anything with the battery. The charger that I have on hand seems very odd to me. I still don't get why there is a range of voltage at the...

Thanks for taking a look at this! I didn't realize that while there is no load the battery voltage is actually a useful indicator of the SOC like with lead batteries. I got so used to not relying on it for LFP because it is (to my knowledge) too inaccurate while under load that it didn't cross...

Okay, I'm got gonna try and hack it and I'll get a proper LFP charger instead. I am looking at Victron IP22 and where I live I can get 12 V / 30 A version. 30 A is much closer to the recommended charge current of 40 A so I think I should be definitely in the ballpark with that.

Thanks! I did repost the question there. I also decided to get a proper charger as I expect I will be expanding the battery bank and even if I did charge this one using the 1 A charger, I will want to do the first two cycles of any future batteries faster, so a proper charger will come in handy.

I found this weird, but the label on the charger says its output is 13.6-14.7 V / 1 A. I am confused why it would be a range. It is not an LFP charger so it does not state any specific voltages at the different charging stages like bulk and absorbtion.

I see. Still, I would have expected to see those values represented not as a range but as lines showing the voltages for the different states. I am attaching a picture of the label.

Hi, I have a barn where I have run a small solar system I use to power its lights as well as the occasional power tool. There is a semi-insulated brick room in the barn so I can keep the electronics (solar charge controller, invertor, batteries with internal heaters) there. The barn has a south...

Yeah I am definitely going to be looking at replacing the panels. The ones I have currently aren't able to top up the batteries as fast as I'd like. With the new spot and better panels I am positive I should see much better charge times as I will be able to both catch and convert more light.

Hi! I have a hobbyist solar system with just a few panels powering just DC loads for now (lights in my shop). I want to build a bigger system in the future but I want to learn first to make sure I get it right. My system started off with a 12 V SOK LFP battery, a Victron MPPT BT solar charge...

Hi, my name's Tom and I am a novice solar hobbyist. I live in the Czech Republic, in central Europe. I'm making this post to say hi to everyone as well as to see if we have other Czech people here. I expect to create a bunch of posts for the Beginners Corner over the course of the coming months...

Yeah I left out some of the context from my original thread. My situation is that I'm not at my house where the solar system is now, but I did receive this battery and rather than just stare at it for a few weeks, I figured I might as well do the first two cycles as recommended by the...

So for my current 4 175 Wp panels with 18.3 V and 9.56 A (under load) connected in series, so 73.2 V and 9.56 A or 700 Wp if I ran a 70 m (230 ft) length of 10 AWG (6 mm2) copper cable I am looking at a 7.13 % voltage drop, so 67.98 V on the other end going to the SCC. That's 650 Wp. And if I...

Good point about the MC4s! I think I will go with 10 AWG and accept the voltage loss. Maybe I will upgrade to higher Wp panels so that the output voltage of the array is higher and it is still high enough even after the loss. I will keep the temp adjustment in mind, thank you. I am using a 12 V...

Hi, I have a Victron SmartSolar 100/15 MPPT SCC connected to a Cerbo GX for remote control via VRM and VictronConnect. I am currently not using the relays on the Cerbo but I know they can be both connected to a manual mode (and one can be programmed which is not something I need right now)...

Yes, I am aware the internal memory on the device is limited. I don't care much for keeping the data on the device for longer, but question is more towards how and whether I can take the locally saved data off the Cerbo GX and backfill them into the VRM history. From what I can see, VRM kicks in...

Hi, I am using Victron products (except for batteries) in my miniature solar system and while using the physical products themselves as well as VRM, I have come up with some suggestion improvements. I tried to email these to Victron, but they seem to have a pretty impenetrable sales wall; the...

Thank you!

This is not really a complaint even thought based on the forum list I think this is a best place to post this. I am a new member so I am going through all of the various resouces season members probably don't check anymore and one of them was the Code of Conduct post...

I didn't consider that, it is true that I can stop while still well within the safe levels and switch chargers once able to. I think I'll do that. Thanks!

Hi, I have a miniature solar setup with a few panels, an SCC and a 206 Ah LFP battery. I used to have the setup power 24/7 lights in my shop but I disconnected the load some time back due to making changes to the shop lighting and I never got back to reconnecting it yet. I use a Victron SCC and...

It is a 12 V battery and I have two 175 Wp 10 A solar panels hooked up to the SCC in series going to the SCC. The SCC is configured correctly for a 12 V LFP system so AFAIK it should be charging the battery with the correct algorithm. I am glad to hear the temperature is not a problem, I got the...

status.png shows the charger is enabled and charging but in bulk state. settings.png shows the float should start at 13.5 V and absorption at 14.2 V. We see that the battery is not at that voltage, but it has no load and history-recent.png shows daily there is energy going into the battery but...

Hi. I have this SOK 206 Ah battery: https://www.europe.sokbattery.com/product-page/marine-grade-12v-206ah-lifepo4-battery-sealed-plastic-box-bluetooth-built-in-he The specs say to charge using: 14.4-14.6 V and 40 A I am not at the spot where my solar system is for a few weeks now but since I...

Hey folks, I was recommended to repost my question from https://diysolarforum.com/threads/is-it-okay-to-charge-a-battery-with-much-lower-current-than-recommended.50780 here: Long story short, I am a complete novice and I happen to have a 13.6-14.7 V / 1 A charger meant for gel batteries at hand...