Shawn Hayes
Learning Everyday
In another Sol-Ark related thread, @coolwaterxii asked me to share my experience so far with getting the Batrium to communicate with my Sol-Ark. so I responded to @coolwaterxii to come to this thread and I would answer his questions and share some of my experience so far.
Photos below. System is dual sol-ark 12k’s with 16s4p LiFePo4, Batrium Watchmon core with 64 Blockmon M-8’s.
Basically it’s pretty much is @audreez first post in this thread. In Sol-Ark you change your battery set up to be a BMS lithium 00, and I select active battery as well.
I use the CAT5 cable leaving the original ethernet plug on one end and stripping out the extra wires, leaving the blue, white blue and green wires, adding Ferrells, then connecting them to the canbus connector on the Batrium.
Of course before this process started I already had the settings for the most part preset in the Batrium. My biggest stumbling block was finding out where to enter the correct charge settings from Batrium so that Sol-Ark would display and have the correct charge and discharge and voltage settings from the Batrium. This is found in the remote setting screen which is one of the areas I still have lots of questions about.
If I made any significant changes to the settings in Batrium, I noticed that some time the lithium display screen in the Sol-Ark would display either zero settings or sometimes it would change and have your charge to voltage set at 237 V which obviously is not correct. So that is something that you have to monitor closely that when you make changes how does it affect what it’s telling Sol-Ark. (Edit: The process described above happened during resynchronization when I changed hardware settings, especially with the cellmon settings, not control logic settings, noted in the paragraph that follows this edit.)
I also found that sometimes when it ask you to do a re-synchronization, it will tend to make crazy things happen with the Sol-Ark. Sometimes it changes your settings and at one point for some reason, I lost all the settings in the Batrium and had to start from scratch.
I actually had to do a resynchronization this morning because I made a few more small minor changes yesterday. So I waited until this morning when there was no sunshine, disconnected canbus from the Batrium to Sol-Ark, then did the resynchronization process, and once that was complete, I then reconnected the two. Doing that process seem to work best as it did not create a glitch between the two communicating..
I have found that sometimes disabling and re-enabling the lithium battery set up in Sol-Ark helps that but more times it seems that whatever changes I made to the Batrium had to be reverted back to the previous settings. I have looked at as much information as I can including Batrium website. They have great instructions, but quite honestly, some of the things that they say I just really do not understand yet. Hoping to get some help from this community? However I know Batrium is out there if I must go that route.
Hope this helps?
Questions?
Thoughts?
Photos below. System is dual sol-ark 12k’s with 16s4p LiFePo4, Batrium Watchmon core with 64 Blockmon M-8’s.
Basically it’s pretty much is @audreez first post in this thread. In Sol-Ark you change your battery set up to be a BMS lithium 00, and I select active battery as well.
I use the CAT5 cable leaving the original ethernet plug on one end and stripping out the extra wires, leaving the blue, white blue and green wires, adding Ferrells, then connecting them to the canbus connector on the Batrium.
Of course before this process started I already had the settings for the most part preset in the Batrium. My biggest stumbling block was finding out where to enter the correct charge settings from Batrium so that Sol-Ark would display and have the correct charge and discharge and voltage settings from the Batrium. This is found in the remote setting screen which is one of the areas I still have lots of questions about.
If I made any significant changes to the settings in Batrium, I noticed that some time the lithium display screen in the Sol-Ark would display either zero settings or sometimes it would change and have your charge to voltage set at 237 V which obviously is not correct. So that is something that you have to monitor closely that when you make changes how does it affect what it’s telling Sol-Ark. (Edit: The process described above happened during resynchronization when I changed hardware settings, especially with the cellmon settings, not control logic settings, noted in the paragraph that follows this edit.)
I also found that sometimes when it ask you to do a re-synchronization, it will tend to make crazy things happen with the Sol-Ark. Sometimes it changes your settings and at one point for some reason, I lost all the settings in the Batrium and had to start from scratch.
I actually had to do a resynchronization this morning because I made a few more small minor changes yesterday. So I waited until this morning when there was no sunshine, disconnected canbus from the Batrium to Sol-Ark, then did the resynchronization process, and once that was complete, I then reconnected the two. Doing that process seem to work best as it did not create a glitch between the two communicating..
I have found that sometimes disabling and re-enabling the lithium battery set up in Sol-Ark helps that but more times it seems that whatever changes I made to the Batrium had to be reverted back to the previous settings. I have looked at as much information as I can including Batrium website. They have great instructions, but quite honestly, some of the things that they say I just really do not understand yet. Hoping to get some help from this community? However I know Batrium is out there if I must go that route.
Hope this helps?
Questions?
Thoughts?
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