<div dir="ltr">Kirk, <div><br></div><div>That site looks specifically for the Envy inverters. Do you know if the Guardian site is working? My credentials will not get me in at this time. </div><div><a href="http://www.app.fortresspower.io">www.app.fortresspower.io</a></div><div><br></div><div>My sites have no comms between the batteries and the inverter, since it is an Outback system. </div><div><br></div><div>And yes, there is certainly an issue with SOC drift over time without getting a full charge. I was told by Fortress tech support that the eFlex batteries needed to get over 55V to calibrate the SOC. Yet, in their settings, the generator is only supposed to bring them to 54.4V. The solar will bring it higher. But this was a problem here in upstate NY, where we did not have a sunny enough day in the entire month of January.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 12:30 PM Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<div id="m_-6065965813654600038signature">So this is all open loop with outback correct? I can't even get into Simplyphi. website today. Maybe the windows update...</div>
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A question, it looks like Outback is not closed loop with any battery company. I hope I am wrong!<br>
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<div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">Is it similar to my problem with my Simplify batteries? Over time, the BMS did not allow all cells to charge the same. To correct this, I had to charge each battery separately, and after this, they stayed equivalent for more years. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 7:50 AM Jay via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,"sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">I have only purchased one set of Fortress batteries. There have been issues, I am sure many of them self-induced. Fortress has been overall very responsive. There have been a few days where I could not get through to technical support but with persistence I always manage. Fortress has offered truck–roll compensation at a reasonable rate as well.</span></p>
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<p>Good morning my fellow wrenchers. While I see the comments on SunPower and the challenges, are any of you having similar issues with Fortress? Their bms boards from the early classics have not held up and even after replacement there are still issues ( parallel batteries and stand alone not showing accurate #'s, ). While support has been, well supportive, the issues persist. Any thoughts or fixes you have come up with?? I just had a customer unplug the coms cable from their sol-ark and bring their readings to volts VS %% and it is starting to work a bit better. Any and all help or ideas appreciated.</p>
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