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<div id="signature">I like Kent's answer ! Adding on I am not sure about this combo (not the Solark) as I do not use it. Still not sure if it is closed loop? I know when Schneider adds another closed loop LFP battery to it's supported list, it really is the battery manufacturers responsibility to make sure the RS485 canbus/modbus network is accurate or using the right data.</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Usually these quality batteries have a 10 year warranty, user replaceable BMS and Cal/test procedure for replacement of the BMS. There is also a State of Life % as well as a USB output of battery internal cells program. At least Discover does this. Nice 75 year old company that makes Locomotive batteries ! Cheers time! Friday!</span></div>
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<p>I think that the SOC determined by lithium BMSs come with similar accuracy issues that occur with the Trimetric, FNDC, Magnum BMK,... - small measurement errors integrated over a long time become big errors. That's why Fortress (and every SOC meter) is saying that the battery needs to reach 54.4 volts once a week for recalibration. At least with lithium batteries the SOC meter doesn't need to account for the return current dropping down as is required with lead-acid batteries. The internal BMSs probably do a better job of estimating the SOC than these external devices, but I do not expect them to be perfect. Same goes with everyone's electric car, while we put a lot of faith in the displayed SOC it probably isn't much better than ±5% and if it were off by 10% you probably wouldn't know. </p>
<p>In regards to your graph showing a big voltage difference between two 55% SOC occurrences over a 12 hour time frame. I question your assumption that the voltage should be the same. The data show different voltages for the same SOC, it seems unlikely that the BMS measurement drifted by enough to make that happen, so I think the data shown may both be correct within reason. The voltage of lithium cells is highly load dependent (probably somewhat temperature dependent too) so perhaps the Fortress battery is actually close to right at both times.</p>
<p>Since using the SI SOC meter for starting the generator is problematic, an external device for starting based on voltage is a good idea. If you want a ready to go product to do that, I think the Morningstar relay driver will work well. A little difficult to program or reprogram but very reliable. One issue you will observe is that the generator won't start at a consistent SOC as indicated by the battery or the SI.</p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">Dave:</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">I have to disagree with you here. To my knowledge every SOC system relies on coulomb counting and applying an efficiency value. That efficiency value is dependent on changing variables such as temperature, age of the batteries, charge rate, discharge rate-- to name a few. Every SOC system I have studied requires periodic recalibration. Maybe Discover is different but here is my experience with Fortress. </span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">Below is a chart of SOC versus Battery Voltage for a 4 Sunny Island system in a closed loop installation with 5 Fortress E-vaults:</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">Inside the ellipse note that at 6:00AM the SOC is 55% and the battery voltage is about 50.8. At 4:00PM pm the same day SOC is again at 55% but the battery voltage is about 50.0 VDC. This is a drift in calibration of 0.8 VDC in 10 hours. In the context of LiFePo4 systems 0.8 VDC is a lot. Because this is closed loop, the drift was created in the BMS units, not the Sunny Island.</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">Drake, to your question: The consequences depend on how much the system relies on SOC for operational mode decisions. I work almost exclusively with Outback and SMA SI and primarily in the off-grid segment. Since the SI is SOC-centric, the consequences experienced during the period charted above was that the system failed to start the generator and the system shut down.</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">I am new to the use of Lithium batteries and don't work a lot with SI so it took me two trips to figure out what was happening. The diagnosis was complicated by a failed SD card and a catastrophic generator failure (shorted windings). It took a few days to get a replacement generator and the interim the Fortress BMSs failed to recalibrate and this caused the incorrect correlation between VDC and SOC.</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">In conversation with Fortress tech support I was advised to make sure the battery voltage gets to 54.4 at least once per week. This is the voltage at which the E-vaults recalibrate SOC. During the winter this is sometimes difficult to do. I can't rely on the SI generator to auto-start and achieve 54.4 because it triggers on SOC values and if those values are wrong then the generator may shutoff prematurely, failing to reach 54.4. In this case the generator failed to start at all as a direct result of inaccurate SOC and the system crashed, causing an inconvenience to the client and to me. </span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">There are some settings on the SI that may force a full charge but I haven't drilled down yet to see if this can be configured to ensure that 54.4 once per week. If anyone has experience with this and can chime in it may save me some time. I suspect all settings rely on SOC so there will be no built in solution.</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">If the inverter here was an Outback and I was not relying on an FNDC to control generator start (which I never do), this problem would not happen. The Outback would react to battery voltage only, as monitored over three different time periods. This is a superior method for sure.</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">Battery inverters are very smart these days, but sometimes not quite smart enough...</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">Drake, thanks for asking.</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">William</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">PS: Brainstorming a solutions here: </span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">A: I am sure I could program an Arduino or Raspberry Pi to take over generator auto-start duties. I don't prefer homemade solutions because of the time required to develop and test and I am not good at building interfaces.</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">B: Maybe I could install a Mate3s and one FM60 charge controller. The charge controller would not connect to PV because this is an AC coupled system, but if were connected to the batteries it could monitor battery voltage and the internal aux relay could control the generator.</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #993366;">Ideas, anyone?</span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">I do not think there is a lack of accuracy in a good closed loop LFP battery system. The steep curve of Lithium is just not accurate for voltage and the Soc measurement from a quality BMS is super accurate.</span></p>
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<pre><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The closed loop UL 9540 systems save alot of fuel in generator use, are simple, and have happy clients for me.</span></pre>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">How does the lack of accuracy in SOC detection affect the usefulness of closed loop systems?</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="v1v1v1v1msonormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">I am careful about getting my clients too dependent on SOC readings. SOC is a calculated value based on changing variables and is notoriously inaccurate.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="v1v1v1v1msonormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">Below is a screenshot of the Optics reporting for a client. The graph line that begins as the lower of the two is the SOC, the other is voltage. The SOC is out of calibration until about noon when it jumps from about 20% to about 80%. This does not mean the SOC changed by that amount, it means that it was just very wrong. Who knows when it is correct?</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="v1v1v1v1msonormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">In spite of repeated entreaties this client still reads the SOC and becomes concerned when it gets low-- even if the voltage level indicates the batteries are well charged. I have to deal with his misplaced anxiety.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="v1v1v1v1msonormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">This problem appears to occur across all battery/inverter technology. For example, SMA touts their "coulomb counting" as more accurate than others but I have witnessed otherwise. You'd think that BMS units built by lithium manufacturers for their own products would be consistently accurate but even those BMS units need to recalibrate frequently, this according to the battery manufacturer's engineers.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="v1v1v1v1msonormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">It would be nice to offer clients a simple, accurate method of ascertaining battery charge levels. SOC is not that method. I train my clients to watch voltage levels and to understand these values are elastic. If you can see trends in the battery voltage, so much the better. This is why I like the Outback Optics interface. This is also why a good AGS system examines battery voltage over time.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="v1v1v1v1msonormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">I no longer install Outback FNDC units. Without them there is no SOC reading. I don't install Sunny Island systems—they are SOC centered and suffer for it.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="v1v1v1v1msonormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> RE-wrenches [mailto:<a class="v1moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org" rel="noreferrer">re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>] <strong><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">On Behalf Of </span></strong>Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches<br /><strong><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Sent:</span></strong> Sunday, February 4, 2024 7:30 AM<br /><strong><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">To:</span></strong> RE-wrenches<br /><strong><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Cc:</span></strong> Jason Szumlanski<br /><strong><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Subject:</span></strong> [RE-wrenches] State of Charge Meter for Sol-Ark</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="v1v1v1v1msonormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">They will have smartphone app visibility, but they want something they can see inside the house without picking up a phone or going out to the inverter. Ideally the SOC will come from the inverter or the battery itself, not an external source (to avoid discrepancies).</span></p>
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