Sparkoro86
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Hey Solar Forum! I decided to make a post to help guide new owners of EPEver Tracer MPPT charge controllers, for setting up their 7s lithium charging parameters. I had some trouble at first and thought I'd share instruction, so that it's out there.
Problem 1: You need to buy an add-on module to change settings for lithium batteries, using an APP and an android phone, or using PC interface. Your choices are the EPEver eBox BLE (bluetooth), eBox WiFi, or EPEVER USB (PC interface).
I opted for the bluetooth connector ebox-BLE-01 because the wifi unit doesn't operate conveniently. Needed to EPEVER software on my phone, downloaded the lithium charge controller app from EPEver website, an APK file for android phones. This app connects with either BLE or WiFi and works Pixel 2 android phone. Status / information and settings are not updated in real time, You have to reload / refresh information data coming in and out of it from it by clicking the READ and SEND buttons if you want to see updated information or want to change settings.
Problem 2: EPEver Tracer won't save my USER battery settings for 7s.
Every time I manually input my User mode settings into the app, clicked SEND, but the Tracer unit wouldn't respond. Clicking around in the App's settings, I found it had configurations for 3s-6s LiCoO2 (lithium-cobalt) configurations.. but not a 7s configuration. To get around this problem, you need to first select the 6s configuration, and then go to user parameters and change it to appropriate 7s solar charge settings. It worked for me, I hope it saves someone some head scratching.
Problem 1: You need to buy an add-on module to change settings for lithium batteries, using an APP and an android phone, or using PC interface. Your choices are the EPEver eBox BLE (bluetooth), eBox WiFi, or EPEVER USB (PC interface).
I opted for the bluetooth connector ebox-BLE-01 because the wifi unit doesn't operate conveniently. Needed to EPEVER software on my phone, downloaded the lithium charge controller app from EPEver website, an APK file for android phones. This app connects with either BLE or WiFi and works Pixel 2 android phone. Status / information and settings are not updated in real time, You have to reload / refresh information data coming in and out of it from it by clicking the READ and SEND buttons if you want to see updated information or want to change settings.
Problem 2: EPEver Tracer won't save my USER battery settings for 7s.
Every time I manually input my User mode settings into the app, clicked SEND, but the Tracer unit wouldn't respond. Clicking around in the App's settings, I found it had configurations for 3s-6s LiCoO2 (lithium-cobalt) configurations.. but not a 7s configuration. To get around this problem, you need to first select the 6s configuration, and then go to user parameters and change it to appropriate 7s solar charge settings. It worked for me, I hope it saves someone some head scratching.
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