Sol-Ark Battery warning symbol

MaikaiLife · Aug 10, 2023

Everything is working fine, but I noticed this little faint warning symbol under the battery on the display. There are no warnings in the logs, I've rebooted everything and it still persists. The manual doesn't explain it and I can't find anything in the forums. Does anyone know what this little guy is?

HighTechLab · Aug 10, 2023

This shows up if battery is using communication and the battery is limiting charge current (for example, when the battery is full).

It's so that you don't blame the inverter for not charging your batteries when it's the BMS limiting things.

If you are using a battery with communication, go to menu -> Li-Batt Info; it probably will show charge current limit lower than discharge current limit.

MaikaiLife · Aug 10, 2023

It displays exactly what you said. So basically the battery says, "I'm full" so it updates the inverter to drop the current to zero for now?

HighTechLab · Aug 10, 2023

MaikaiLifeDIY said:
It displays exactly what you said. So basically the battery says, "I'm full" so it updates the inverter to drop the current to zero for now?

Bingo

Once the battery needs some more juice, it will ramp up the charge current limit.

MaikaiLife · Aug 10, 2023

Thanks so much @Dexter

HighTechLab · Aug 10, 2023

MaikaiLifeDIY said:
Thanks so much @Dexter

No problem...btw, @Dexter is a random forum user that I'm sure gets bugged to death because of me. @HighTechLab

niktak11 · Aug 10, 2023

I'm on an older firmware version so this may be different, but the only time that shows up for me is if some of my BMSs stop communicating with the master (I damaged one of the communication ports on one of my seplos packs). It never shows up for me when the charge current is limited.

MaikaiLife · Aug 12, 2023

As soon as my Sol-Ark was told by the Communication Hub the batteries could accept a charge. The charge current value instantly increased to 600 and the symbol went away, just as Dexter described.

Tulex · Aug 12, 2023

HighTechLab said:
This shows up if battery is using communication and the battery is limiting charge current (for example, when the battery is full).

It's so that you don't blame the inverter for not charging your batteries when it's the BMS limiting things.

If you are using a battery with communication, go to menu -> Li-Batt Info; it probably will show charge current limit lower than discharge current limit.

Is this a bms specific thing? I've never seen it under what you've described.

MaikaiLife · Aug 13, 2023

I can't answer that, but it sounds like it's either the communications hub and or combination of the hub and the batteries adjusting the Sol-Ark so that it no longer pushes and current to the batteries when the batteries and or hub have decided they are full.

Sol-Ark Battery warning symbol

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