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Rico319

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Hi, I have a 48 volt 200 ah battery that won't charge to 100 soc. It stops charging at 30 AMPS...and charges at 4amps until volt drops below 51 volts...then starts charging at 30 amps again. I checked the cells and they look out of balance. Does this mean I have a bad cell? I sent my issue to Rosen, but I have not received an answer yet.
 

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How is the battery being charged, from the inverter via PV/MPPT or built in charger or external charge controller? Charging voltage and current is generally controlled by the charging device NOT the battery.
We need more info about your system before advice can be given.
 
How is the battery being charged, from the inverter via PV/MPPT or built in charger or external charge controller? Charging voltage and current is generally controlled by the charging device NOT the battery.
We need more info about your system before advice can be given.
sorry about that... I'm charging with my growatt 6k inverter. only get about 50% with solar right now as I have 2 strings that are not connected. I usually top it off with my generator when cloudy. I noticed the last couple weeks that cell 8 is lower voltage than the others.
 
So its a 15 cell battery as compared to the typical 16 cell, 48V battery. I prefer to think about batteries on a per cell basis then multiply by the number of cells which would normally be 4, 8, 15 or 16.
The battery is charging at 51.02V which is an average of 51V/15 = 3.4V per cell. This correlates nicely with the individual cell readings very close to to 3400mV. This is right on the threshold, but not quite high enough to fully charge the battery. I would recommend increasing Absorption (Constant Voltage) charge setting to 3.5V per cell (52.5V) let the battery charge until the current starts to fall off again. At that point recheck the individual cell voltages and if #8 is still a little low let the battery charge for a few hours and recheck #8. The balancer should correct this.

Regarding SoC, I would suspect the the battery is actually at a higher state of charge than 66.4%, assuming the voltage reading of 51.02V is accurate. The BMS is not intended to be a long term, precision current monitor and coulomb counter, it actually relies on being recalibrated to 100% at the top of every recharge cycle, usually at some set Voltage value. Not sure if you have access to these values or can change them. In any case, the charging voltage has to reach the reset value for the SoC to jump back to 100%. You can safely increase the charge voltage up to 3.6V per cell. (54.0V) to force the BMS to reset SoC to 100%. This is the typical behavior of a BMS, I've not personally used a Rosen Brand battery.
 
So my inverter is connected to the BMS and I can't modify the settings with the LI option that I have chosen. If I set it to USE defined option do I have to unplug the communication to the BMS? US2 it says suitable for lithium batteries when not using BMS cables
 
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