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EG4 Battery Resistance

tamingilman

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I have 6 EG4 48v 100AH server rack batteries in parallel with bus bars. What is the correct setting for Battery Resistance in a Sol-Ark inverter? How can I calculate this. Doesn't seem to be listed on spec sheet. Right now it it set to 8 ohms. Thanks!
 
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Anyone? I can't find resistance specs anywhere. Not sure how to calculate it. Without Sol-Ark / EG4 comms in just want to get settings as close as possible manually. Thanks.
 
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Response from Sol-Ark.

"Our system uses battery resistance to calculate and compensate for voltage droop under load. Our settings are in milli-ohms. I haven't seen anything less than 5 m-ohms. At 275A possible draw from a 15K, with 5 m-ohms, this amounts to 1.375V of droop, which can mean the difference between hitting a battery setpoint for grid or gen charge, inverter shut down due to low battery level, etc... or not. 100 micro-ohms for 275A would be only 0.0275V, so this difference is significant in absolute terms.

If you are talking to their support, I would ask them the question: "so you're telling me these batteries essentially have zero voltage droop under significant load?" and see what they say."
 
Sorry to be so dense! So 100m-ohms is then divided by the number of packs? So in a 6 battery bank something like 16m-ohms?
 
This is what I sent to support.

This is what I currently have set.

Batt Capacity: 600ah
Max A Charge: 100A
Max A Discharge: 185A
Max A Grid Charge: 100A
TEMPCO: 0mV/C/Cell
Float V: 56.5V
Absorption V: 56.5V
Equalization V: 56V
Equalization Days: 30
Equalization Duration: 1 Hours
Recommended Shutdown V / Percentage: 51.3V & 20%
Recommended Low Batt V / Percentage: 47.5V
Recommended Restart V / Percentage: 50V
Battery Charge Efficiency: 99%
BMS Lithium Batt: 04 - THIS IS NOT IN USE AT THE MOMENT - hope to see comms soon :)
Battery Resistance: 8mOhms

They replied
"The internal resistance of our batteries is 100 micro ohms. So you will need to have that set to 1."
 
Batteries in parallel are going to act like resistors is parallel. So the same formula should apply.

Rt= 1/(1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3+ 1/R4+ 1/R5+ 1/R6)

So if the SS value given for each Eg4 is really 100milli Ohms
It would be 1/(1/.1 + 1/.1 + 1/.1 ...etc)
That would be 1/(60) = .01667 Ohms or 16.7 milli Ohms for 6 batteries
 
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